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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 1979
Filed:
Jun. 29, 1977
Applicant:
Inventors:
Timothy L Brosseau, Havre de Grace, MD (US);
Arthur Liberatore, Havre de Grace, MD (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F41C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
89 3 / ;
Abstract
A cartridge magazine including a spiral channel having a tangential linear xit section, a plurality of spider arms dividing the cartridges into groups of cartridges and having a plurality of indentures in their radial faces, and a drive means mounted external to the magazine for driving said arms. The spiral is a perfect Archimedian spiral and the indentures on an arm number one less than the number of cartridges in a group and are displaced radially by the diameter of a cartridge.