US3562944A - Rifle with detachable magazine and latch therefor - Google Patents

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US3562944A
US3562944A US804116A US3562944DA US3562944A US 3562944 A US3562944 A US 3562944A US 804116 A US804116 A US 804116A US 3562944D A US3562944D A US 3562944DA US 3562944 A US3562944 A US 3562944A
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Karl Wanger
Horst Wesp
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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
    • F41A17/00—Safety arrangements, e.g. safeties
    • F41A17/34—Magazine safeties
    • F41A17/38—Magazine mountings, e.g. for locking the magazine in the gun

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  • a stock of a rifle has opposite side walls defining a a magazine chamber, which is open at one end. Each of said side walls is formed with an aperture and with a recess which is open to said chamber.
  • a detachable magazine is contained in said chamber and has two longitudinal sides, each of which is provided with a nose, which is spring-urged in an outward direction and engaged with one of said recesses. Each of said longitudinal sides is also provided with a grip ledge, which is spring-urged outwardly and protrudes outwardly from said stock through one of said apertures. Said noses are arranged to disengage said recesses when said grip ledges are depressed into said stock.
  • This invention relates to locking means for detachable magazines, preferably drum magazines, in rifles.
  • the rifle has been provided at a suitable point with a spring-loaded locking lever, which engages a notch of the magazine and must be pivotally moved against the spring force when the magazine is to be removed.
  • This locking lever may be replaced by a push button, which may cooperate with an intermediate lever, if desired. All these designs have the disadvantage that the rifleman needs both hands for removing or replacing the magazine because the finger of one hand is required to actuate the locking lever or the push button or the like and the other hand is required to grasp and pull out or insert the magazine.
  • the magazine is provided on each longitudinal side with at least one nose, which is resiliently biased outwardly and which snaps into recess formed in a side wall of the stock or of the shaft liner and is adapted to be urged back from the notch-engaging position by a grip ledge or the like, which laterally protrudes from an aperture in the stock.
  • the magazine is reliably held in the stock or the stock liner by the noses which are provided on the magazine itself and which engages the recesses of the side wall of the stock or its liner.
  • the ma gazine can be grasped at the grip ledges with one hand so that the noses are disengaged from the recesses, and the magazine can be pulled out of the stock, whereas the second hand is required only to hold the rifle in a suitable position but no finger of the second hand is required to operate any lever or the like.
  • the magazine cannot be inadvertently pulled out of the stock because this would require the application of oppositely directed pressures to the pressure ledges provided on both sides; such pressures can only be applied when the pressure ledges are directly gripped.
  • the noses can easily be arranged on the magazine in such a manner that the latter cannot be skewed within the stock or its liner in spite of the backlash which is present. If there is only one nose on each side, it will be arranged in that region in which the cartridge rising into the cartridge chamber exerts from above a downwardly directedy pressure on the magazine.
  • the parts forming the noses and grip ledges interengage at one end with an undercut portion or the like of the magazine and are held at the other end in a recess of a removable magazine end cover, known per se.
  • the noses are bevelled in the direction in which the magazine is inserted so that the insertion of the magazine automatically causes the noses to be depressed by wedge action, the noses subsequently engage the recesses automatically when the magazine has reached its inserted position and it is not required to operate the grip ledges when the magazine is being inserted.
  • FIG. 1 is a side elevation showing part of a rifle having an inserted drum magazine
  • FIG. 2 is a transverse sectional view taken on line II-II in FIG. 3.
  • FIG. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on line lII-III in FIG. 2.
  • FIGS. 2 and 3 different variants are shown in the two halves of the illustration.
  • a wedgelike portion 2, 2a is inserted in the drum magazine 1 at each of the longitudinal sides thereof and is urged outwardly by springs 3.
  • the forward end of each of part 2 or 2a engages an undercut portion, which is formed by an oblique bore 4.
  • each of parts 2 and 2a is held in an aperture of a removable magazine end cover 5.
  • part 2 has in its forward portion a nose 6, which under the action of the spring 3 engages a recess 7 of the shaft liner 8.
  • Part 2 is formed with a grip ledge 9, which is spaced behind the nose 6 and laterally protrudes through an aperture 10 in the stock.
  • part 2a is provided with two 3 noses 6a and an intermediate grip ledge 9a.
  • the noses 6a again engage recesses 7a formed in the side wall of the stock liner 8.
  • An aperture 10a for the grip ledge 9a is also formed in the stock.
  • the grip ledges need not be compressed because the noses 6, 6a are bevelled in the direction in which the magazine is inserted (FIG. 2) so that the noses are automatically forced inwardly by the lower edge of the stock liner.
  • a rifle which comprises a stock having opposite side walls defining a magazine chamber which is open at one end,
  • each of said side walls being formed with an aperture andwith a recess, which is open to said chamber
  • a detachable magazine contained in said chamber and having two longitudinal sides, each of which is provided with a nose, which is spring-urged in an outward direction and engaged with one of said recesses,
  • each of said longitudinal sides also being provided with a grip ledge, which is spring-urged in an outward direction and protrudes outwardly from said stock through one of said apertures,
  • said noses being arranged to disengage said recesses when said grip ledges are depressed into said stock.
  • each of said noses is integral with one of said grip ledges.
  • said magazine is formed with an undercut portion on each longitudinal side thereof
  • each of said noses forms a retaining member together with one of said grip ledges
  • each of said retaining members is engaged at one end with one of said recesses in said cover and at the other end with one of said undercut portions.

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US3985060A (en) * 1974-09-20 1976-10-12 Maremont Corporation Ammunition magazine for automatic firearms
GB2090649A (en) * 1980-12-11 1982-07-14 Singapore Chartered Ind Automatic or semi-automatic gun
US5430967A (en) * 1993-12-16 1995-07-11 Insight Technology, Inc. Aiming assistance device for a weapon
US6574901B1 (en) 1998-07-02 2003-06-10 Insight Technology Incorporated Auxiliary device for a weapon and attachment thereof
US20060196099A1 (en) * 2004-04-06 2006-09-07 Surefire, Llc, A California Limited Liability Company Accessory devices for firearms
US7117624B2 (en) 2004-04-06 2006-10-10 Surefire, Llc Accessory devices for firearms
US20070151440A1 (en) * 2006-01-03 2007-07-05 Browning Arms Company Magazine apparatuses, firearms including same, and method of introducing an ammunition cartridge into a firearm
US7325352B2 (en) 2004-04-06 2008-02-05 Surefire, Llc Accessory devices for firearms
US20110010977A1 (en) * 2009-07-16 2011-01-20 Tomas Quis Magazine quick-release blocking apparatus and method
US8104209B1 (en) * 2011-02-03 2012-01-31 Krow Innovation, Inc. Dynamic latch for a tube mounted magazine well
US8156675B2 (en) 2007-03-08 2012-04-17 Browning Firearm magazine
US9228788B1 (en) 2014-10-31 2016-01-05 Smith & Wesson Corp. Ammunition magazine having guide surfaces
US9766029B2 (en) 2011-07-12 2017-09-19 Cadex, Inc. Detachable chassis base for rifle
US9772153B1 (en) * 2016-07-01 2017-09-26 Smith & Wesson Corp. Rotary ammunition magazine and follower
US20180003456A1 (en) * 2016-07-01 2018-01-04 Smith & Wesson Corp. Rotary Ammunition Magazine and Follower
US10371475B2 (en) 2016-09-21 2019-08-06 Browning Firearm magazine
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US3985060A (en) * 1974-09-20 1976-10-12 Maremont Corporation Ammunition magazine for automatic firearms
GB2090649A (en) * 1980-12-11 1982-07-14 Singapore Chartered Ind Automatic or semi-automatic gun
US5430967A (en) * 1993-12-16 1995-07-11 Insight Technology, Inc. Aiming assistance device for a weapon
US6574901B1 (en) 1998-07-02 2003-06-10 Insight Technology Incorporated Auxiliary device for a weapon and attachment thereof
US7310903B2 (en) 2004-04-06 2007-12-25 Surefire, Llc Accessory devices for firearms
US7117624B2 (en) 2004-04-06 2006-10-10 Surefire, Llc Accessory devices for firearms
US20070074444A1 (en) * 2004-04-06 2007-04-05 Kim Paul Y Accessory devices for firearms
US20060196099A1 (en) * 2004-04-06 2006-09-07 Surefire, Llc, A California Limited Liability Company Accessory devices for firearms
US7325352B2 (en) 2004-04-06 2008-02-05 Surefire, Llc Accessory devices for firearms
US7360333B2 (en) 2004-04-06 2008-04-22 Surefire, Llc Accessory devices for firearms
US7591098B2 (en) 2004-04-06 2009-09-22 Surefire, Llc Accessory devices for firearms
US20070151440A1 (en) * 2006-01-03 2007-07-05 Browning Arms Company Magazine apparatuses, firearms including same, and method of introducing an ammunition cartridge into a firearm
US7806036B2 (en) 2006-01-03 2010-10-05 Browning Magazine apparatuses, firearms including same, and method of introducing an ammunition cartridge into a firearm
US8745912B2 (en) 2007-03-08 2014-06-10 Browning Firearm magazine
US8484875B2 (en) 2007-03-08 2013-07-16 Browning Firearm magazine
US8156675B2 (en) 2007-03-08 2012-04-17 Browning Firearm magazine
US8191298B2 (en) 2009-07-16 2012-06-05 Tomas Quis Magazine quick-release blocking apparatus and method
US20110010977A1 (en) * 2009-07-16 2011-01-20 Tomas Quis Magazine quick-release blocking apparatus and method
US20120198743A1 (en) * 2011-02-03 2012-08-09 Bentley James K Dynamic latch for a tube mounted magazine well
US8104209B1 (en) * 2011-02-03 2012-01-31 Krow Innovation, Inc. Dynamic latch for a tube mounted magazine well
US8667723B2 (en) 2011-02-03 2014-03-11 Krow Innovation, Llc Dynamic latch for a tube mounted magazine well
US9766029B2 (en) 2011-07-12 2017-09-19 Cadex, Inc. Detachable chassis base for rifle
US9228788B1 (en) 2014-10-31 2016-01-05 Smith & Wesson Corp. Ammunition magazine having guide surfaces
US20180003455A1 (en) * 2016-07-01 2018-01-04 Smith & Wesson Corp. Rotary Ammunition Magazine and Follower
US20180003456A1 (en) * 2016-07-01 2018-01-04 Smith & Wesson Corp. Rotary Ammunition Magazine and Follower
US9772153B1 (en) * 2016-07-01 2017-09-26 Smith & Wesson Corp. Rotary ammunition magazine and follower
US9927194B2 (en) * 2016-07-01 2018-03-27 Smith & Wesson Corp. Rotary ammunition magazine and follower
US9939217B2 (en) * 2016-07-01 2018-04-10 Smith & Wesson Corp. Rotary ammunition magazine and follower
US9939216B2 (en) * 2016-07-01 2018-04-10 Smith & Wesson Corp. Rotary ammunition magazine and follower
US10006731B2 (en) * 2016-07-01 2018-06-26 Smith & Wesson Corp. Rotary ammunition magazine and follower
US10371475B2 (en) 2016-09-21 2019-08-06 Browning Firearm magazine
US10921078B2 (en) 2016-09-21 2021-02-16 Browning Firearm having a delay mechanism
US11614292B2 (en) 2016-09-21 2023-03-28 Browning Detachable firearm receiver
US20220299283A1 (en) * 2019-08-26 2022-09-22 Maxim TURLAKOV Turlakov's rifle n 5

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