Magazine pouch

• US 6,154,997 A
• Filed: 04/21/1999
• Issued: 12/05/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: John A. Gulardo, Peter A. Aluotto
• Original Assignee: John A. Gulardo, Peter A. Aluotto
• Inventors: Aluotto, Peter A., Gulardo, John A.
• Primary Examiner(s): ELDRED, JOHN W
• Application Number:
  US09/295,874
• Time in Patent Office: 594 Days
• Field of Search: 42/88, 42/90, 42/106, 89/34, 224/239, 224/931, 224/191, 224/587, 224/668, 224/673, 224/240, 224/914
• US Class Current: 42/90
• CPC Class Codes: F41C 33/02 Holsters, i.e. cases for pistols having means for being carried or worn, e.g. at the belt or under the arm
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 39/02 Cartridge bags; Bandoleers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 224/931 Carrier for ammunition

Abstract

A magazine pouch has a backing plate with an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion has a channel oriented longitudinally along said backing plate. A retainer is slidingly disposed in the channel and fixable in several preselected positions. The lower portion has a magazine box in which a magazine may be disposed. The magazine box includes a front wall and an opening facing the channel. The front wall includes a tab adjacent the opening. The tab is resilient, and, in the manner of a spring, keeps a magazine secured under the retainer, yet enables the magazine to be quickly removed from the pouch.

Claims

1. A magazine pouch, said magazine pouch comprising:

a backing plate, said backing plate having an upper portion and a lower portion, said upper portion having a channel oriented longitudinally along said backing plate;

a magazine box, said magazine box having a back wall, a first side wall, a second side wall and a front wall which together define an opening, said front wall including a tab adjacent said opening which, when displaced from an original position in a direction away from said back wall, springingly restores itself to said original position, said back wall of said magazine box being on said lower portion of said backing plate and said opening of said magazine box facing said channel; and

a retainer, said retainer being slidingly disposed in said channel and fixable at preselected positions therein.

2. A magazine pouch as claimed in claim 1 wherein said back wall of said magazine box and said lower portion of said backing plate are separated from one another, thereby providing a belt passage so that said magazine pouch may be mounted on the belt of a user.

3. A magazine pouch as claimed in claim 1 wherein said backing plate further comprises a clip, whereby said magazine pouch may be attached to the belt of a user.

4. A magazine pouch as claimed in claim 1 wherein said magazine box is molded from a resilient plastic material.

5. A magazine pouch as claimed in claim 4 wherein said plastic material is nylon-filled.

6. A magazine pouch as claimed in claim 2 further comprising a spacer plate, said spacer plate being disposed and fixed within said belt passage, so that said belt passage may be of a width comparable to that of the belt of a user.