US768842A - Cartridge-clip. - Google Patents

Description

PATBNTED AUG. 30, 1904.

' L. 1?. Bauer CARTRIDGE CLIP. APPLICATIOII FILED JULY 28, 1902.

50 MODEL.

No. 768,8Q2.

Eatented Augu t 30, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT UriricE-Y LUCIPL' F. BRUCE, SPRINGFIELD. \IASQACHUS )TTS.

v CARTRIDGE-OLIF'..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 768,842, dated August 30, 1904.

' Application filed Ju aii, 1902. Serial No. 117,267. on am To all whom, it may concern,-

Be it ltnown that l. LUc-rnx F. Bacon. :1 citizen ot' the United States of America. and a resident ot'Springtield. in the county of l lampdcn and Stateof Massachusetts, have invented certain new and u eful llm'irorcnicnts in Cartr dge-Clips, of which-the following is a full, clear. and exa t de cription.

This inrenthnrreiates to clips for the r tent-ion of a pluralityof cartridges. baring f-ir its obit-ct to hold the series of cartridges appropriate to ln-in; in erted into the magazine of a military riilc of the classan 'example of which is the \nrll-l nown Mauser arm, th: clip having the apability of securely holding. the cartridges at their heads, so that there will he no liability of any accidental displacement, and yet permitting most readily and easily as the clip and the cartridges therewith engaged are brought into proximity to the socket at the rear of the opening in the frame of the tirearm leading to the magazine the cartridges to be by pressure at the top-forced down into the magazine, such pressure or forcing action causing the lower obstructing part of the clip to assume a non-obstructing position. In the present Improvement the cartridge-clip does not depend upon the cooperation with any part thereof for its cartridge-diseu'gaging action of any portion of the frame of the firearm, although the presentclip is designed and constructed with external bosses, so that when it enters the socket in the frame of the arm atthe rear of the opening through the magazine it will be held by said bosses against any downward pressure on or relatively to the clip.

The invention consists in the clip having parts of construction and in combination and arrangement, all substantially as hereinafter fully described, and set forth in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows the clip in central longitu dinal section with a charge of five cartridges engaged therein and therewith. Fig. 2 shows the clip with the cartridge-retaining springstrip forced" into the cartridge-disengaging position and indicating the manner of the discharge from the clip'of the'cartridgcs. Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal sectional view of the clip empty. Fig. 4 is an nner face view-of the clip having the spring-stripforminga part thereoi in the position corresponding to that of Fig 2. Fig. 5 is aperspective view, on a somewhat larger scale. showing the body of the clip. Fig. 6 is a perspective View showing the peculiarly-constructed spring-strip which is adapted to h engaged and to coact with t ie clip-bod y. Fig. 7 is a cross-sectional \"icw f the clip, taken on the line 7 Fig. Z. a grooved head of a cartridge being shown 01' ordinary form as in engagement therein.

Similar characters of reference indicate corres onding parts in all of the views,

in the drawings the clip is shown as corn- "..ng wo separately-formed thin metallic part" -nzunely.thc clip-body A and the springstrip B, which is titted and engaged therein and adapted to have a limited degree. of longitudinal movement relatively thereto, it being also possible to so disengage the spring part B from the body that the said spring part way be entirely removed therefrom.

The clip-body A is composed of sheet metal of trough form having within its opposite wall, the parallel longitudinal grooves 11 a, formed between the inwardly-projecting ribs 7) 7' and the base of the clip-body. the grooves or shoulders adjacent the heads of the cartr dgesengaging the clip in a common manner. .The base or back of the clip has the long, struck-up rib or embossing c, the ends of which are lodated within the ends of the clipbody, and between the ends of said struck-up rib c and the clip-body are the short bosses (11/, which are also preferably formed by striking up or displacing the thin metal from the back forwardly. The clip-body has at its sides, suitably distanced from both its ends, the outwardly-protruding ribs or bosses to serve as shoulders when the clip is placed into thesocket in the firearm-frame for the seating of the clip, as very common; The springdcvice B, is clearly shownin Fig. 6, is constructed of a fiat parallel-edged strip of spring-steel, which normally is bowed and has its ends 'rearwardly turned, as at g, and sharply return bent or 'fOlWtH'dl) turned, as indicated at /1. and this part B has tongues "I 1', constituted by the integral internal por tions thereof prodnced by the slits and the apertures at the ends of the tongues in-the' strip prodiwed by the stamping out of the tongues and within the ends of the springstrip. as cleanly shown in the drawings, leaving the stock at the portions comprising the returnbends gand I: unsever'cd or integral. hen the clip is produced and the parts assembled in the position shown in 1, the central forwardly-bowed portion j of the clip is'under a degree of spring reaction and bearing against the middle portions of the lo n giudinal rzhs I, b of the clip-body, and the rearwardl'y-turned portions r engage the outer edges of the, bosses (Z 1], so that the spring remains in this position until displacemcntby an inte gently-applied end wise force.

It is to he understood that if the spring part B is to be forced endwiseas, for instance, as shown in Fig, 2--so that-thepa rt at the upper end rides over the upper -end boss (I and assnmes a position between such boss and 'the end of the long rib c, the other end portion of the spring being passed out of. disengagement with the'adjacentend portion of the clip-body ill by reason of its tendency to spring in the rearwarddirection assume such a position that the forward edge of the portion it is so far back of the plane of the inner or rear-v ward surface of the longitudinal ribs I) 7) that there is ample space for the insertion into the clip or the disengagement from the clip of the cartridge-hemls without interference by the limiting part 11. the spring portion thereof is in the relative position of Fig. 2, and when the full number of cartridges have been put into the clip they are forced cndwise, so that by the abutment with the stop at the other end of the spring the spring is caused to be snapped into-tho relative position shown in' Fig. l. and it is to be especially taken intoacconnt that at-the time of the presence of the cartridges in engagement in the clip the spring-tongues are forced by the ends of the cartridges approximately into the plane with the main portion of the spring about parallel with the back of theclip-bmly, so that the binding etfect of the main portion of the spring, of which features g and It are portions, is strongly increased, rendering more certain the retention of the cartridges in the clip against any accidental displacement.

Now assuming that the cartridge pack wherein the parts engage andhold the car tridges against displacement, as shown in Fig. '1, is brought to position in. the usiial way in g the socket and opening in the frame of' the firearm adjacent the magazine, the clip being limited against cndwise motion, a downward pressure applied in the direction of the arrow, Fl". 1, by the thumb against the cartridges will causc,'through themediuni of the latter, the spring part B to move downwardly endwise until the part g hascome'to the position shown in Fig. 2, to which it by its natural The clip may be tilled while the purposes set forth.

tendency immediately springs, and now course no impediment remains to the fut't'il: of all of the cartridges by the tllllHIb-iH'Osslll down into the magazine, they in their passa; therei-nto successively becoming disengage by their rim-grooves or rim 'lianges, as the ca:

'may be. from the clip.

The clip and its spring device is made in a respects so that one end thereof is the connte part of the other and so that it is immateri: as to whether the clip is loaded from the 01 end or the other or whether either end brought to position in rela'tion'to the mag:

zine-opening.

Having thus described ay invention, wh: I claim, and desire to secure by Letters la ent, is--- I l. A cartridge-clip consisting of a trongl shaped body having the inturncd ribs 6 1', pm

duci'ng between them and the back bf thehod the opposite grooves along and within its Sit walls, and a separate spring-strip, having width greater than the distance between H inner approaching edges of said ribs and ha, ing normally a bowed form whereby its cel tral forwardly-protuberant portion cngagi against and within said ribs, said strip havin spring-tongues extending from its middle p0 tion e'ndwi'se with a forward inclination, an having its ends provided with a forwardly extending lip It normally adapted for a ma ward reaction relatively to the interm'ediai portion of the strip, and the said body an of the strip, the end portions of the strip con prising said bends r havingaspring reactio rearwardly relatively to the intermediate po, tion thereof, substantially as described and It 3. A cartridge-clip consisting of a trougl shaped body having inturned ribs, producin between them andthe back of the body oppt site grooves along its side walls; and a sep:

rate siiring strip sliding in said grooves a-n having 'a form bowed away from the clip-bod wl-icrcby its middle portion engages again:

"the ribs.thc strip having its ends provide with a forwardly-extending lip arranged 1 react rearwardly upon the movement of ti strip.

4. A cartridge-clip consisting of a Sltli grooved trough-shaped holder having near it ends bosses d, ,and the intermediate boss: and the spring-strip having atits end portioi the rearward bends y and the bends [gcxtcm ing forwardly, the strip being bowed outwar lly to thereby cause the end. portions to have a rearward pring reaction npon the 6. A cartridge-clip consisting of a troughshapetl side-grooved holder; and a spring-strip having at its end portions :1 forwardly-extending bend, ant. also having one or more 5 forwardly-inclining tongues arranged to force the ends of the strip rearward upon the movement of the strip in the holder.

Signed by me. at Springfield, B'Iassachusetts,

LUCIEN F. BRUCE.

\Vitnesses:

\VM. 8. BELLows, MARGARET N. BRUCE.

in the presence of two sn bsoribing witnesses.

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