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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:
May. 29, 1990
Filed:
Oct. 05, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael D Golden, Corona del Mar, CA (US);
Assignee:
Western Design Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F41F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
89 34 ; 89 3613 ;
Abstract
An ammunition magazine is provided for a large caliber gun installed on a vehicle in which the magazine is attached to the vehicle in a manner enabling the magazine to be moved from the first position at which ammunition can be moved from the magazines from within the vehicle to a second position at which ammunition rounds can be inserted into the magazine from outside the vehicle. The magazine itself is made of a plurality of attached modular canisters, with each modular canister being configured for supporting an ammunition round and including means for attaching each modular canister to other modular canisters to form a monocoque structure.