U.S. patent application number 13/038762 was filed with the patent office on 2012-09-06 for systems and methods for extracting ammunition from a carrier for loading onto a magazine speed loading tool.
Invention is credited to Raymond Kyungjune Kim.
Application Number | 20120222343 13/038762 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 46752394 |
Filed Date | 2012-09-06 |
United States Patent
Application |
20120222343 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Kim; Raymond Kyungjune |
September 6, 2012 |
Systems and methods for extracting ammunition from a carrier for
loading onto a magazine speed loading tool
Abstract
Systems and methods for extracting cartridges from a carrier for
loading onto a magazine speed loading tool are disclosed herein.
Apparatuses described herein includes a cartridge carrier that is
configured to host ammunition cartridges, a loading medium tool
that is configured to transition the transfer of cartridges from a
cartridge carrier onto a magazine speed loading tool and a comb
shaped tool configured to eject cartridges from a carrier into a
magazine speed loading tool. In an apparatus that configured to
transition the transfer of cartridges from a carrier onto a
magazine speed loading tool is a routing channel that is defined by
three sides of the apparatus. The routing channel is configured to
receive and route cartridges extracted from a carrier. Two parallel
sides of the routing channel are configured to suspend a cartridge
carrier a specified length from the routing channel and transfer
halts to forward momentum to the carrier to eject cartridges from
the carrier. The apparatus also includes extractor ledges, defined
by obstructions on a plane parallel to the plane of the routing
channel which run the same length as the routing channel. The
extractor ledges are configured to strip ammunition from cartridge
carriers. A funnel in the routing channel coupled with a proximal
end of the routing channel is configured to consolidate ammunition
extracted and placed onto the routing channel into a single row and
pass it through the proximal end of the routing channel for
dispensing into a magazine speed loading tool.
Inventors: |
Kim; Raymond Kyungjune;
(Federal Way, WA) |
Family ID: |
46752394 |
Appl. No.: |
13/038762 |
Filed: |
March 2, 2011 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
42/88 |
Current CPC
Class: |
F41A 9/83 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
42/88 |
International
Class: |
F41A 9/83 20060101
F41A009/83 |
Claims
1. A method for transferring ammunition from a carrier onto a
magazine speed loading tool, comprising: urging cartridges out of a
carrier onto a loading medium tool by overcoming the friction hold
applied onto the cartridges by the carrier; routing cartridges
urged onto the loading medium tool through a set of funnels to
consolidate them into a single row, then dispensing them onto a
magazine speed loading tool.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein cartridges are urged out of the
carrier via propelling them out of the carrier by applying high
forward acceleration onto the carrier and cartridges and applying
an abrupt termination in momentum only to the carrier.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the high forward acceleration and
abrupt termination of momentum is applied onto the carrier by
hitting it against a foreign surface.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein cartridges are urged out of the
carrier by urging the ends of the cartridges placed into the
carrier toward the openings through which they were inserted into
the carrier, accessing these cartridge ends through a separate
opening in the carrier.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein cartridges are urged out of the
carrier by coupling the cartridges onto the loading medium tool and
pulling the carrier away from the cartridges.
6. A loading medium tool, the loading medium tool comprising; one
or more ammunition cartridges, the ammunition cartridge further
comprising: a projectile bullet at a proximal end of the cartridge;
propellant configured to propel the projectile bullet in a firearm;
a primer located at a distal end of the cartridge configured to
detonate the propellant; a casing to house the primer, propellant
and projectile bullet; a rim located at a distal end of the
cartridge; and an indentation on the casing located between the rim
and the projectile bullet configured to assist a firearm in
extracting a cartridge from the firearm barrel; an ammunition
carrier, the ammunition carrier further comprising; a tray,
configured to contain one or more ammunition cartridges in a single
or multiple row configuration; cartridge holding compartments
imbedded in the tray and exposed on a side of the tray, configured
to host and maintain cartridges in the tray by exerting friction
onto the cartridge projectile bullet, casing, indentation or rim;
and perforations, located on the sides of the tray on which the
cartridge holding compartments are not located, configured to
expose the ends of the cartridges which are inserted into the tray;
a proximal opening, located at a proximal end of the loading medium
tool, configured as an inlet for the indentations of cartridges on
a carrier to be placed onto the extractor ledges; extractor ledges,
located on the loading medium tool on a plane between the routing
channel and the side opening that is parallel to the plane of the
routing channel, configured to fasten into cartridge indentations
and obstruct the perpendicular movement of cartridge rims to the
plane of the routing channel; a side opening, located between the
proximal and distal ends, configured as an inlet for cartridges
extracted from the carrier to pass into the routing channel or as
an inlet for cartridge indentations to be placed onto the extractor
ledges; suspension walls, running perpendicular to the routing
channel, configured to support and suspend the carrier a specific
length from the routing channel when transferring cartridges from
the carrier into the medium loading tool; a routing channel,
defined by a wall of the loading medium tool which runs between the
proximal and distal openings, configured to receive cartridges
extracted from the carrier and direct them through the
consolidating funnel to the distal opening; a consolidating funnel,
located on the routing channel between the proximal and distal
openings, configured to consolidate ammunition in the routing
channel into a single row configuration; a distal opening, located
at a distal end of the loading medium tool, configured to receive
cartridges consolidated into a single row through the consolidating
funnel and dispense them into the loading opening of a magazine
speed loading tool; and a magazine speed loading tool, coupled to
the distal opening, configured to receive cartridges from the
routing channel through a loading opening on the magazine speed
loading tool.
7. The system of claim 6, wherein cartridges are transferred from a
carrier onto the routing channel by fastening the indentations of
the cartridges onto the extractor ledges and pulling the carrier
away from the cartridges.
8. The system of claim 6, wherein the extractor ledges contain
arced cutouts that allow the extractor ledges to wrap partially
around the curvature of the cartridge indentations to enable the
extractor ledges to form greater surface area contact with the
cartridge indentations and rims.
9. The system of claim 6, wherein the locations of the arc shaped
cutouts on the extractor ledges correspond with the indentations of
the cartridges in the carrier.
10. The system of claim 6, wherein the extractor ledges flex to
create a wider gap between one another to accommodate the passage
of cartridge rims between the extractor ledges but retract back to
their original positions upon the passage of the rims to fasten
into the indentations of the cartridges.
11. The system of claim 11, wherein slopes on the extractor ledges
facilitate the flexing of the extractor ledges.
12. The system of claim 6, wherein cartridges are transferred from
a carrier onto the routing channel by coupling the carrier with
cartridges onto the suspending walls and applying rapid
acceleration and abrupt deceleration to the loading medium tool and
carrier with cartridges to allow the continued momentum in the
cartridges to dislodge the cartridges from the carrier.
13. The system of claim 12, wherein acceleration and deceleration
are created by hitting the loading medium tool hosting a carrier
with cartridges against a foreign surface in such a configuration
that the cartridges lie between the carrier and routing channel and
the routing channel lies between the cartridges and the foreign
surface.
14. The system of claim 6, wherein the partition of space between
the routing channel and a hosted carrier with cartridges created by
the suspending walls allows sufficient room for a cartridge to
partially eject from the carrier, but not to such an extent that
the weight of the cartridge is no longer supported by the carrier
through a cartridge end.
15. The system of claim 6, wherein cartridges in a carrier are
placed into the loading medium tool with the primers and distal
ends of the cartridges facing into the routing channel.
16. The system of claim 6, wherein the consolidating funnel is two
non-parallel, non-tangent planar slopes which narrow toward a
common focal point, whose narrow opening is coupled to the distal
opening of the loading medium tool and whose broad opening widens
to the width of the proximal opening in the loading medium
tool.
17. The system of claim 6, wherein the suspending walls are angled
to the routing channel to slant a hosted carrier and cartridges so
that cartridges come into contact with the routing channel at an
angle.
18. The system of claim 6, wherein cartridges placed onto the
routing channel are urged through the consolidating funnel to be
consolidated into a single row and is further urged through the
distal opening to be dispensed into a magazine speed loading
tool.
19. A method for transferring ammunition from a carrier onto a
magazine speed loading tool, comprising: urging a cartridge out of
a carrier onto a magazine speed loading tool by urging the end of
the cartridge that is inserted into the carrier out the opening
through which it is inserted into the carrier, accessing the
inserted end of the cartridge through an unobstructed opening in
the carrier.
20. The method of claim 19, wherein multiple inserted ends of
cartridges are urged out of the carrier simultaneously by an
apparatus with multiple ends, which correspond to the ends of the
cartridges, inserted through an unobstructed opening in the carrier
to access the inserted cartridge ends.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] Loading ammunition from a clip is a common means for quickly
loading ammunition cartridges into an ammunition magazine. However,
commercially purchased ammunition is more commonly packaged in
carriers which hold cartridges in stacked configurations of single
or multiple parallel rows. Aside from loading individual cartridges
into the magazine manually, the quickest method for loading
ammunition from these carriers into a magazine is to transfer
ammunition from a carrier onto a magazine speed loading tool for
loading into a magazine. Though loading cartridges from a magazine
speed loading tool into a magazine is quick, the process for
transferring cartridges from a carrier into a speed loading tool is
not, often requiring that individual cartridges be moved by hand
one at a time from a carrier into the speed loading tool.
Currently, there exists very few means for placing ammunition
directly onto a speed loader quickly in bulk for loading into a
magazine.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0002] The preferred and alternative embodiments of the present
invention are described in detail below with reference to the
following drawings.
[0003] FIG. 1A is side angle views of typical single row carrier
with perforations loaded with cartridges;
[0004] FIG. 1B is side angle views of typical multiple row carrier
with perforations loaded with cartridges;
[0005] FIG. 2A is a side angle view of a loading medium tool for
extracting multiple rows of cartridges simultaneously;
[0006] FIG. 2B is a front view of the loading medium tool for
extracting multiple rows of cartridges simultaneously;
[0007] FIG. 3A is a top down view of a cartridges in a carrier
inserted onto a loading medium tool configured for extracting
multiple rows of cartridges simultaneously;
[0008] FIG. 3B is a side cross section view of a cartridges being
held on the loading medium tool configured for multiple rows by
extractor ledges as the carrier is lifted away from the
cartridges;
[0009] FIG. 3C is a side view of the loading medium tool configured
for multiple rows transferring cartridges into the loading opening
of a typical magazine speed loading tool;
[0010] FIG. 4 is a side angle view of a loading medium tool
configured for extracting single rows of cartridges
[0011] FIG. 5A is a top down view of a cartridges in a carrier
inserted onto a loading medium tool configured for extracting
single rows of cartridges;
[0012] FIG. 5B is a side view of a cartridges being held on the
loading medium tool configured for single rows by extractor ledges
as the carrier is lifted away from the cartridges;
[0013] FIG. 5C is a side angle view of the loading medium tool
configured for single rows transferring cartridges into the loading
opening of a typical magazine speed loading tool;
[0014] FIG. 6 is a side angle view of the loading medium tool
configured to extract cartridge by inertia;
[0015] FIG. 7A is a top down view of a carrier with ammunition
placed onto the inertial extraction loading medium tool;
[0016] FIG. 7B is a side cross section view of the inertial
extraction loading medium tool being hit against a foreign surface
to extracted cartridges from the carrier by inertia;
[0017] FIG. 8 is a side angle view of an extraction comb; and
[0018] FIG. 9 is a side angle view of cartridges on a carrier being
urged from the carrier by the extraction comb and ejected into the
loading opening of a typical magazine speed loading tool.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
[0019] The prior art method for loading cartridges stored in an
cartridge carrier requires taking out individual cartridges from
the cartridge carrier and loading them one by one into a magazine
or onto a magazine speed loading tool for loading into a magazine.
As this is time and labor intensive, it is an object of an
embodiment of the present invention to provide a system by which
the cartridges contained on an ammunition carrier can be
transferred in mass from an ammunition carrier onto a magazine
speed loading tool, which in turn loads the cartridges into a
magazine. As some magazine speed loading tools require that
cartridges be placed in a single row configuration on the magazine
speed loading tool to facilitate the urging cartridges from the
magazine speed loading tool into a magazine, it is also an object
of an embodiment of the present invention to provide a system by
which cartridges on a carrier are consolidated into a single row
for placing onto a magazine speed loading tool.
[0020] An example embodiment of the present invention is a process
by which the ammunition on a carrier is placed onto a loading
medium tool and is stripped off its carrier by the loading medium
tool for placing onto a magazine speed loading tool. Cartridges are
stripped from the carrier by being placed on ledges on the loading
medium tool which protrude into the extraction indentations of
cartridges to hold the rims of the cartridges in place on the
loading medium tool while the carrier is lifted away from the
cartridges. The ledges restrict the perpendicular movement of
cartridges to the plane of a routing channel, which runs lengthwise
on the loading medium tool and guides cartridges through a
consolidating funnel and out of the loading medium tool for
dispensing onto a speed loading tool. The extraction ledges may
further contain arced cut outs which assist the extraction ledges
in wrapping partially around the cartridge indentations for greater
surface area contact between the extraction ledges and cartridge
rims. Once all the cartridge indentations on the carrier have been
placed onto the ledges, the cartridges are angled parallel to the
ground or diagonal to the ground with their flat primer sides
facing toward the ground. As the cartridges are held between the
extraction ledges and routing channel, the carrier supporting them
is lifted away, allowing cartridges to roll down the extraction
ledges by force of gravity onto the support of the routing channel.
The routing channel guides cartridges toward the consolidating
funnel and a bottom end opening on the loading medium tool. The
consolidating funnel consolidates the cartridges into a single row
configuration and the cartridges then exit through the bottom end
opening and are dropped into the loading opening of a magazine
speed loading tool.
[0021] Another example embodiment of the present invention is a
process by which ammunition on a carrier is transferred onto a
loading medium tool, by force of inertia, for loading onto a
magazine speed loading tool. This is accomplished with the
assistance of the walls on the loading medium tool which couple
with and suspend a carrier with ammunition a specific length away
from a routing channel. The routing channel, which runs lengthwise
in the loading medium tool, hosts and guides ammunition through the
loading medium tool to a bottom end opening on the loading medium
tool. The walls of the loading medium tool suspend a carrier with
cartridges from the routing channel to such a length as to allow a
cartridge to move away from the friction hold support of the
carrier and come into contact with the routing channel at one end
of the cartridge while its weight is still supported by the carrier
at the opposite end of the cartridge. Cartridges exit from the
carrier and come into contact with the routing channel by
overcoming the friction applied onto them by the carrier. This
friction is overcome by applying forward momentum to the cartridges
in conjunction with ceasing momentum in the carrier and routing
channel. This is accomplished by applying rapid forward
acceleration onto the loading medium tool, carrier and cartridges,
and then bringing an abrupt stop in forward momentum to the carrier
and loading medium tool only. This is preferably accomplished by
hitting a loading medium tool hosting a carrier with ammunition
against a foreign surface with the repository channel between the
cartridges and the foreign surface. The impact of the loading
medium tool with the foreign surface causes a sudden halt in the
forward momentum of the loading medium tool, which transfers to the
tangent carrier, but only partially to the cartridges. The
cartridges, still having forward inertial momentum, overcome the
friction applied onto them by the carrier and move in the direction
of the foreign surface until stopped by the routing channel. The
support of the weight of the cartridges still lies on the carrier,
as ends of cartridges are still in the carrier, and is only
transferred onto the routing channel by lifting the carrier away
from the cartridges. Once the carrier is lifted away and support of
the cartridges lies on the routing channel, the routing channel
guides the cartridges toward a consolidating funnel and bottom end
opening on the loading medium tool with the assistance of gravity
as the loading medium tool is angled diagonally or perpendicularly
to the ground. Cartridges passing through the consolidating funnel
are consolidated into a single row configuration and exit through
the bottom end opening into a magazine speed loading tool coupled
with the loading medium tool.
[0022] Another example embodiment of the present invention is a
process by which the cartridges on a carrier are pressed out of the
carrier onto a magazine speed loading tool by urging the ends of
the cartridges placed into the carrier out of the carrier,
accessing these ends through perforations in the carrier. This is
accomplished with the assistance of a comb shaped tool which
contains teeth that correspond to perforations on the carrier. The
comb teeth are inserted into the carrier perforations where they
press the inserted cartridge ends toward the openings through which
the cartridges were inserted into the carrier. This is done by
overcoming the friction forces placed onto the cartridges by the
carrier. Once the friction forces are overcome, the cartridges
eject from the carrier directly onto magazine speed loading tool
placed adjacent to the carrier.
[0023] In reference to example embodiments disclosed in FIGS. 1A
and 1B, an ammunition carrier 202 is a generally elongated
rectangular box shaped container embedded with multiple cartridge
holding compartments 207. The cartridge holding compartments are
accessed by hole openings 211 located on a top face side 210 of the
carrier 202 and are configured to host and grip cartridges 200 in
the carrier 202 by friction. The hole openings 211 are generally
lined in rows on the top face side 210, and carriers 202 often host
single or multiple rows of hole openings 211, organized in a
parallel configuration. The carrier 202 also contains perforations
206 on its sides, other than the top face side 210, which expose
the tips 208 or flat primer sides 204 of cartridges 200 through the
sides of the carrier 202.
[0024] In reference to example embodiments disclosed in FIGS. 2A
and 2B, the loading medium tool 101 is a generally elongated
rectangular box shaped container that defines a routing channel 102
running lengthwise through it, which serves to direct and dispense
cartridges 200 onto a magazine speed loading tool 201. A top
opening 103 and bottom opening 104 are located on opposite ends of
the loading medium tool 101. Openings 103, 104 are tangent to both
ends of the routing channel 102. The top opening 103 preferably
allows for the insertion of cartridges 200 on a carriers 202 while
the bottom opening 104 preferably allows for the dispensing of
cartridges 200 out of the loading medium tool 101. Loading medium
tool 101 defines a consolidating funnel 109 in the routing channel
102, which is positioned between the top opening 103 and bottom
opening 104. The consolidating funnel 109 consolidates multiple
rows of cartridges 200 placed into the routing channel 102 into a
single row for passage through the bottom opening 104 and loading
into the loading opening 209 of a magazine speed loading tool 201
coupled with the bottom opening 104. In an embodiment, the
consolidating funnel 109 comprises two non-parallel, non-tangent
planar slopes which narrow toward a common focal point, whose broad
opening widens in the routing channel 102 to the same width as the
top opening 103 and whose narrow opening is coupled to the bottom
opening 104. Loading medium tool 101 defines a side opening 105 in
the routing channel 102, which is positioned between openings 103,
104. The side opening 105, located opposite of the routing channel
102, allows for the insertion and extraction of carriers 202 with
or without cartridges 200 into and out of the loading medium tool
101. Loading medium tool 101 defines extractor ledges 106 in the
routing channel 102, which are positioned between the routing
channel 102 and side opening 105 on a plane parallel to the routing
channel 102. The extractor ledges 106 run parallel to one another
throughout the length of the loading medium tool 101 and host
cartridges 200 in the space between the extractor ledges 106. The
extractor ledges 106 protrude into the indentations 205 of hosted
cartridges 200 which fastens cartridges rims 203 in a space between
the extractor ledges 106 and the routing channel 102 known as the
rim gap 112. This fastening prevents perpendicular movement of
cartridges 200 to the plane of the routing channel 102. In an
embodiment, the extractor ledges 106 contain arced cutouts 107,
which correspond to the extraction indentations 205 on cartridges
200 and allow the extractor ledges 106 wrap partially around the
curvature of the extraction indentations 205. This assists the
extractor ledges 106 in forming greater surface area contact with
cartridge rims 203, so as to allow the extractor ledges 106 to
better ground cartridges 200 to the routing channel 102 during the
stripping of cartridges 200 from a carrier 202.
[0025] In reference to example embodiments disclosed in FIGS. 3A,
3B and 3C, a system and method for transferring cartridges 200 from
a carrier 202 onto a loading medium tool 101 for loading onto a
magazine speed loading tool 201 involves fastening multiple rows of
cartridges 200 onto extractor ledges 106 on the loading medium tool
101 and pulling the carrier 202 from the cartridges 200 to separate
them by overcoming the friction hold applied onto the cartridges
200 by the cartridge holding compartments 207 of the carrier 202. A
carrier 202 with cartridges 200 is placed onto the routing channel
102 through the top opening 103 of the loading medium tool 101 with
the flat primer sides 204 of the cartridges 200 facing into the
routing channel 102. The cartridges 200 are placed onto the
extractor ledges 106, with the extractor ledges 106 protruding into
the indentations 205, and travel in contact with the extractor
ledges 106 as they are slid down the routing channel 102 on the
carrier 202. Once all of the extraction indentations 205 are slid
onto the extractor ledges 106, arced cutouts 107 on the extractor
ledges 106, which correspond to the extraction indentations 205,
fasten partially around the curvatures of the extraction
indentations 205, allowing the extractor ledges 106 to form a
greater surface area hold on the cartridge rims 203. The extractor
ledges 106 hold the rims 203 of cartridges 200 in the rim gap 112
between the extractor ledges 106 and the routing channel 102 and
prohibit perpendicular movement of the cartridges 200 to the plane
of the routing channel 102. While the cartridge rims 203 are held
by the extractor ledges 106, the loading medium tool 101 hosting
the carrier 202 with cartridges 200 is angled to be diagonal or
near perpendicular with the ground with the flat primer sides 204
of cartridges 200 facing into the ground. The carrier 202 is lifted
away through the side opening 105 as the cartridges 200, restricted
from perpendicular movement to the plane of the routing channel
106, stay in place on the loading medium tool 102. The ammunition
cartridges 200, now no longer supported by the carrier 202, roll
parallel to the plane of the routing channel 102 by influence of
gravity, losing tangency with the arced cutouts 107 and extractor
ledges 106, and fall toward the consolidating funnel 109 and bottom
opening 104 of the routing channel 102. Passing through the
consolidating funnel 109, the cartridges 200 consolidate into a
single row and pass through the bottom opening 104 where it is
dropped into the loading opening 209 of a magazine speed loading
tool 201.
[0026] In reference to example embodiments disclosed in FIGS. 4,
5A, 5B and 5C, a system and method for transferring cartridges 200
from a carrier 202 onto a loading medium tool 101 for loading onto
a magazine speed loading tool 201 involves fastening a row of
cartridges 200 onto extractor ledges 106 on the loading medium tool
101 and pulling the carrier 202 from the cartridges 200 to separate
them by overcoming the friction hold applied onto the cartridges
200 by the cartridge holding compartments 207 of the carrier 202.
Single rows of cartridges 200 in a carrier 202 are inserted through
the top opening 103 or side opening 105 of the loading medium tool
101, with the cartridge flat primer sides 204 pointed into the
routing channel 102, onto the extractor ledges 106 in such a manner
as to allow the extractor ledges 106 to protrude into the cartridge
indentations 205. A row of cartridges 200 in a carrier 202 is
placed onto the extractor ledges 106 through the top opening 103 by
sliding the extraction indentations 205 of the cartridges 200
between two extractor ledges 106, which pin the cartridge rims 203
between the extractor ledges 106 and the routing channel 102. A row
of cartridges 200 in a carrier 202 is placed onto the extractor
ledges 106 through the side opening 105 by urging the rims 203 of
the cartridges 200 against the extractor ledges 106 until they
flex, creating a wider gap of spacing between each extractor ledge
106 to allow passage for the rims 203 between the extractor ledges
106. The extractor ledges 106 are assisted in flexing by slopes 108
on the extractor ledges 106, located on the sides of the extractor
ledges 106 closest to the side opening 105. The slopes 108
translate the directional movement of the cartridge rims 203 toward
the routing channel 102 into sideways movement for the extractor
ledges 106, allowing them to flex to create a wider gap between
each other. After the rims 203 move past the extractor ledges 106,
the extractor ledges 106 contract back to their original positions
and fasten around the extraction indentations 205, trapping the
extraction indentations 205 between the extraction edges 106 with
the cartridge rims 203 in the rim gap 112 between the extractor
ledges 106 and the routing channel 102. Once the extraction
indentations 205 on the row of cartridges 200 are placed onto the
extractor ledges 106, fastening the cartridges 200 in place on the
loading medium tool 101, the carrier 202 supporting the cartridges
200 is lifted away from the cartridges 200, transferring the
support of the cartridges on the routing channel 102. The loading
medium tool 101 is then angled to be diagonal or perpendicular with
the ground, urging the cartridges 200 on the routing channel 102,
by force of gravity, to fall through the bottom opening 104 where
it is dropped into the loading opening 209 of a magazine speed
loading tool 201.
[0027] In reference to example embodiments disclosed in FIGS. 6,
7A, and 7B, a system and method for transferring cartridges 200
from a carrier 202 onto a loading medium tool 101 for loading onto
a magazine speed loading tool 201 involves applying forward inertia
and momentum onto cartridges 200 to dislodge the cartridges 200
from the friction hold applied onto them by the cartridge holding
compartments 207 of the carrier 202. In order to apply forward
inertia onto cartridges 200, a carrier 202 with cartridges 200 is
suspended a specific length of distance from the routing channel
102, known as the exit gap 110, with the flat primer sides 204 of
the cartridges 200 facing into the routing channel 102. The exit
gap 110 is defined by the distance between the routing channel 102
and the carrier 202 which allows cartridges 200 to move out of the
carrier 202 beyond the friction hold applied onto the cartridges
200 by cartridge holding compartments 207 while prohibiting
cartridges 200 from moving out to such an extent that the weight of
the cartridges 200 are no longer supported by the carrier 200
through the cartridge tips 208, which are still in the carrier 202.
A set of multiple suspending walls 111, which protrude from and run
perpendicular to the routing channel 102 assist in suspending the
carrier 202 with cartridges 200 from the routing channel 102 by
supporting the top face side 210 of the carrier 202 while leaving
an unobstructed path for cartridges 200 to move onto the routing
channel 102. The suspending walls 111, while maintaining the
distance between the carrier 202 and the routing channel 102, also
prohibit the lateral movement of the carrier 202 along a plane
parallel to the plane of the routing channel 102. Forward inertia
and momentum is applied onto the cartridges 200 by rapidly
accelerating the assembly composed of the loading medium tool 101
and carrier 202 with cartridges 200 and bringing the medium loading
tool 101 and carrier 202 to an abrupt stop. In an embodiment, the
assembly is hit against a foreign surface 124 to accomplish this,
with the medium loading tool 101 coming into contact with the
foreign surface 124 while the routing channel 102 is between the
cartridges 200 and the foreign surface 124 and the cartridges 200
are between the routing channel 102 and carrier 202. The abrupt
halt in movement to the loading medium tool 101 and routing channel
102, which is transferred to the carrier 202 by the suspending
walls 111, is weakly transferred to the cartridges 200 by the
friction hold of the cartridge holding compartments 207 of the
carrier 202. The residual forward momentum, or inertia, in the
cartridges 200 overcomes the friction hold of the cartridge holding
compartments 207 and ejects cartridges 200 from the carrier 202
over the entire length of the exit gap 110 onto the routing channel
102. The cartridge tips 208 which still remain in the carrier 202
allow for the support of the weight of the cartridges 200 to remain
on the carrier 202. The loading medium tool 101 and carrier 202
with cartridges 200 are then sloped diagonal or near perpendicular
to the ground, with the cartridge flat primer sides 204 facing
toward the ground and the carrier 202 is lifted away from the
cartridges 200. This shifts the support of the cartridges 200 from
the carrier 202 onto the routing channel 102 where, by influence of
gravity, the cartridges 200 move toward to the consolidating funnel
109 and bottom opening 104 of the loading medium tool 101. The
cartridges 200, passing through the consolidating funnel 109,
consolidate into a single row and pass through the bottom opening
104 where they are dropped into the loading opening 209 of a
magazine speed loading tool 201.
[0028] In reference to example embodiments disclosed in FIG. 8, an
extraction comb 123 is a generally elongated rectangular bar 120
with multiple prongs 121 protruding from it on a long side 125. The
prongs 121, which are also generally elongated rectangular bars,
are coupled to long side 125 at a prong proximal ends 126 and run
perpendicular to the rectangular bar 120. The prongs 121 are spaced
to correspond with the perforations 206 on cartridge carriers 202
and on the ends of the prongs 121 opposite to the prong proximal
ends 126 are teeth 122 for urging the tips 208 of cartridges 200
out of carriers 202.
[0029] In reference to example embodiments disclosed in FIG. 9, a
system and method for stripping cartridges 200 from a carrier 202
onto a magazine speed loading tool 201 involves urging cartridges
200 out of the carrier 202 by urging the ends of the cartridges 200
placed into the carrier 202. This is accomplished by inserting the
teeth 122 of an extraction comb 123 through the perforations 206 on
a carrier 202 to urge the tips 208 of the cartridges 200 in the
carrier 202 toward the hole openings 211 of the carrier 200. The
force of the comb teeth 122 pressing the cartridge tips 208 toward
the hole openings 211 overcomes the friction imposed on the
cartridges 200 by the cartridge holding compartments 208. This
allows the cartridges 200 to eject from the carrier 200 through the
hole openings 211 into the loading opening 209 of a magazine speed
loading tool 201, positioned beneath the hole openings 211,
adjacent to the cartridge flat primer sides 204, to receive the
ejected cartridges 200.
[0030] While the preferred embodiment of the invention has been
illustrated and described, as noted above, many changes can be made
without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
Accordingly, the scope of the invention is not limited by the
disclosure of the preferred embodiment.
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