US1588888A - Drum-shaped cartridge magazine for machine guns or the like - Google Patents

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US1588888A
US1588888A US735548A US73554824A US1588888A US 1588888 A US1588888 A US 1588888A US 735548 A US735548 A US 735548A US 73554824 A US73554824 A US 73554824A US 1588888 A US1588888 A US 1588888A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41A—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE
    • F41A9/00—Feeding or loading of ammunition; Magazines; Guiding means for the extracting of cartridges
    • F41A9/61—Magazines
    • F41A9/64—Magazines for unbelted ammunition
    • F41A9/73—Drum magazines

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  • the drum-shaped magazine must also be arranged in such a manner that the cartridges may be fed forward continuously, no matter what elevation the machine gun is given during firing.
  • Fig. 1 shows the cartridge magazine, viewed from the side facing the gun
  • Fig. 8 a section along the line IIIIII of Fig. 2,
  • Fig. a a section along the line IVVIVV of Fig. 1,
  • Fig. 5 a vertical longitudinal section of the feeding lever for the cartridges
  • Fig. 6 a horizontal section of the same
  • Fig. 7 the feeding lever viewed from its free end.
  • the cartridge magazine consistsof a conical casing l, the conicity of which is adjusted to suit the kind and size of the cartridges the magazine is intended to hold.
  • the house has on one side a tangentially disposed outlet spout 2 adapted to be attached in the spout on the lock frame of the machine gun by way of which the cartridges are introduced into the machine gun.
  • the casing is also fitted with a handle bar 3.
  • a spiral rail 4 To the bottom of the casing 1 a spiral rail 4:, Figs. 3 and 4, is attached, and a similar rail 5, Fig. 3, is attached to the top plate of the casing, so that two spiral tracks 6 and T are provided inside of the casing adapted to gulde the wide and the narrow end of the cartridges, respectively.
  • a shaft is journalled consisting of two pieces 8 and 9, one of which 8 supports a feeding lever 10, 11, 12, while the other piece passes through a spring house 13 attached to the top plate of the casing.
  • a powerful spiral spring 14 one end of which is attached to the wall of the house 13, while its other end is connected to the shaft portion 9.
  • the two shaft portions 8 and 9 are interconnected in such a manner that they revolve together, for instance by means of a lug 15 on the shaft part 9, the said lug engaging a notch 16 in the shaft part 8, Figs. 3 and 5.
  • the said shaft part is fitted, at the end journalled in the bottom of the casing 1, with an incision 17 for a suitable key by means of which the shaft 8,
  • the spiral Spring 14 is mev'edby- V inetion of this ttibeinside otthe tuhe'fl it limited Wall of the reasilig 1', the. ttihe ,12; ist-htted tztaci'n'g the shaft partf8pa pr ojectiing
  • the tu be V 12 has 0 1i bile side
  • the tube 10 is lcloseclbyymeans (it afthread G J 21 2l,j. the; fbettonifof which sjervea asf' ,1'bearing' -surface iorfthefhead 'ofa 1001131 25,;
  • W 27 is a .piflvOteclI rts topping'lever' preventing jthe cartridgesrheld in t'hel'fmaga'zineyfrom a beihgpreslsed outr'of the spout 0 fthe;magazine, When the latter is [not 1 attached to the gun.
  • Thisjstopping lever is a doublet-armed '1ever,;and.- th.e end, of the game facing the V V orifice ofthe magazinejs fitteclwith itjTtOOfi-h I V ,QQJWithtwe' ,slo'ping 1surfa cesf3Q tandfii'li V .;
  • V 1110 comprising, in combination, a dru1n-shaped housing, means forming a spiral pathwithin said housing adapted to receive a plurality of cartridges, a shaft mounted for rotation within the housing, a tubular telescoping lever carried by said shaft and bodily rotatable therewith, resilient means within said lever for urging the same toward its extended position, a roller carried by said lever and adapted to travel in said spiral path, a spiral spring for rotating said shaft thereby to cause said roller to travel from the inner toward the outer end of the spiral path,
  • a spring actuated pivoted lever adapted normally to obstruct the outer end of said path and prevent the escape of cartridges therefrom, said lever being automatically swung on its pivot when the magazine is attached to a gun thereby to permit the passage of cartridges from the magazine into said gun.

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US2506409A (en) * 1943-05-20 1950-05-02 Republic Aviat Corp Automatic locking ammunition container
US2592790A (en) * 1946-08-19 1952-04-15 Vickers Armstrongs Ltd Gun loading mechanism
US3382765A (en) * 1965-08-10 1968-05-14 Avco Corp Multiple drum-type magazine of particular utility with rocket-boosted ammunition and featuring radially inward helical feed toward a common reciprocal feed slide
US4413546A (en) * 1980-12-17 1983-11-08 Taylor Jr William J Drum magazine for carbines or the like
US9528784B2 (en) 2014-10-14 2016-12-27 Magpul Industries Corp. Drum magazine assembly and methods

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DE742022C (de) * 1940-03-30 1943-11-20 Boehmische Waffenfabrik Ag Patronenmagazin, bei dem ein von einer Triebkraft belasteter Patronenstoessel eine Patronenreihe in kreisfoermigen oder spiralfoermigen Fuehrungen verschiebt und die Fortbewegungsbahn der Patronen im Magazin erfolgt
EP0054089B1 (de) * 1980-12-11 1985-05-29 Chartered Industries Of Singapore Private Limited Trommelmagazin für eine Feuerwaffe
US4445418A (en) * 1980-12-11 1984-05-01 Chartered Industries Of Singapore Private Limited Drum magazine for a gun

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2506409A (en) * 1943-05-20 1950-05-02 Republic Aviat Corp Automatic locking ammunition container
US2592790A (en) * 1946-08-19 1952-04-15 Vickers Armstrongs Ltd Gun loading mechanism
US3382765A (en) * 1965-08-10 1968-05-14 Avco Corp Multiple drum-type magazine of particular utility with rocket-boosted ammunition and featuring radially inward helical feed toward a common reciprocal feed slide
US4413546A (en) * 1980-12-17 1983-11-08 Taylor Jr William J Drum magazine for carbines or the like
US9528784B2 (en) 2014-10-14 2016-12-27 Magpul Industries Corp. Drum magazine assembly and methods
US10184741B2 (en) * 2014-10-14 2019-01-22 Magpul Industries Corp. Drum magazine assembly and methods
US10677550B2 (en) * 2014-10-14 2020-06-09 Magpul Industries Corp. Drum magazine assembly and methods
US11085718B2 (en) * 2014-10-14 2021-08-10 Magpul Industries Corp. Drum magazine assembly and methods
US11680763B2 (en) 2014-10-14 2023-06-20 Magpul Industries Corp. Drum magazine assembly and methods

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