| 摘要 |
The present invention involves techniques for rapid, flexible, partial and supplemental reloading of firearms using specialized actions, intermediate storage devices/feeds and multiple magazines, which may, in some embodiments, be simultaneously engaged with a firearm. The techniques disclosed include a feeding system, which may be a multiple-magazine feeding system, that allows a firearm to remain loaded and firing-ready with multiple loaded cartridges at all times, even during reloading operations. The invention also includes other techniques for flexible, non-wasteful, partially-empty reloading, to eliminate reloading paralysis, and allow the soldier or other user, not the size of a magazine, to determine when firing should continue and when and if it should pause. |
| 主权项 |
1. A flexible loading ammunition system, comprising an intermediate ammunition cartridge storage device that is able to store and cause ammunition cartridges to move for placement in a firing mechanism and which, while installed on a firearm, is also able to be manually coupled and decoupled with at least one ammunition-delivering magazine and, when so coupled, is able to receive from said at least one ammunition-delivering magazine the amount of ammunition necessary to complete loading said intermediate ammunition cartridge storage device if sufficient ammunition to do so is available in said at least one ammunition-delivering magazine. |
