| 摘要 |
The invention is an apparatus that facilitates repeatedly aligning and loading a magazine into a magazine-well of a firearm, where the firearm is a barreled weapon, including replicas, novelty firearms, mock firearms, gaming firearms such as paint ball guns, computerized guns, toys guns, pressurized gas propelled guns, and virtual guns that are digital representation. The apparatus includes multi-magazine manifold which can hold a plurality of magazines (clips), where the multi-magazine manifold is mounted to one or more vertical slides that automatically align a magazine with the magazine well. Ejection and reloading is faster and easier, and can be done without visually disengaging from a target because alignment is substantially established by the apparatus. The apparatus is rugged and simple to use, and can be fitted to wide variety of firearms. |
| 主权项 |
1. An apparatus for repeatedly aligning and loading ammunition into a firearm having a magazine-well and a magazine ejection device, said apparatus comprising:
an adapter comprised of a beam and a set of fastening elements, wherein the adapter provides a strong platform that won't slip even under heavy recoil, wherein the adapter can be mounted onto the firearm forward of the magazine-well; a vertical slide rail, which is a rigid structural member, comprised of an end that is mounted to the adapter and an opposing end that is terminated with a full-stop element, wherein the vertical slide rail functions as a guiding track to which a carriage can be secured; a vertical slidable element that is supported and guided by the vertical slide rail, wherein the vertical slidable element functions as the carriage having a low resistance to facilely move along the vertical slide rail even when the vertical slidable element is under stress, wherein the vertical slidable element has a mountable surface that when the apparatus is mounted on the firearm, the mountable surface of the vertical slidable element faces rearward toward the magazine-well; a rotatable multi-magazine manifold comprised of a polygon having an axial center and a plurality of perimeter walls, wherein each of the perimeter walls has an external mounting face, each the mounting face can receive and hold a magazine by a base portion of the magazine in potential alignment with the magazine-well, and when the manifold is filled the magazines are in radial alignment with the axial center; a rotatable strut assembly that is fastened to the mountable surface of the vertical slidable element, wherein the rotatable strut assembly is comprised of a strong strut projecting rearward and co-extensive to the axial center of the rotatable multi-magazine manifold, and a plurality of set points that correspond to positions where each of the magazines on the rotatable multi-magazine manifold will be aligned with the magazine-well as the manifold is incremental rotated; wherein, when the magazine ejection device is actuated, a current magazine in the well is ejected causing the manifold, the rotatable strut assembly, and the vertical slidable element to drop to their lowest position, wherein the multi-magazine manifold can be turned to a next set point for the next magazine, and the next magazine is now positioned beneath and in-line with an empty magazine-well, wherein the next magazine can be shoved into the empty well, by raising the manifold, therein resetting the rotatable strut assembly and the first vertical slidable element to an upper operational position; and wherein repeatedly aligning and loading of the firearm is accomplished without the need to visually disengage from a target. |
