EP1994355B1 - Magasin en plastique - Google Patents

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EP1994355B1
EP1994355B1 EP07723113A EP07723113A EP1994355B1 EP 1994355 B1 EP1994355 B1 EP 1994355B1 EP 07723113 A EP07723113 A EP 07723113A EP 07723113 A EP07723113 A EP 07723113A EP 1994355 B1 EP1994355 B1 EP 1994355B1
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41A—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE
    • F41A9/00—Feeding or loading of ammunition; Magazines; Guiding means for the extracting of cartridges
    • F41A9/61—Magazines
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41A—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE
    • F41A9/00—Feeding or loading of ammunition; Magazines; Guiding means for the extracting of cartridges
    • F41A9/61—Magazines
    • F41A9/64—Magazines for unbelted ammunition
    • F41A9/65—Box magazines having a cartridge follower
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41A—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE
    • F41A9/00—Feeding or loading of ammunition; Magazines; Guiding means for the extracting of cartridges
    • F41A9/61—Magazines
    • F41A9/64—Magazines for unbelted ammunition
    • F41A9/65—Box magazines having a cartridge follower
    • F41A9/69—Box magazines having a cartridge follower characterised by multiple-row or zigzag arrangement of cartridges
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41A—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE
    • F41A9/00—Feeding or loading of ammunition; Magazines; Guiding means for the extracting of cartridges
    • F41A9/61—Magazines
    • F41A9/64—Magazines for unbelted ammunition
    • F41A9/65—Box magazines having a cartridge follower
    • F41A9/70—Arrangements thereon for discharging, e.g. cartridge followers or discharge throats

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  • the invention relates to a plastic magazine with side walls made of plastic, along which the cartridges are moved during reloading in a firearm (preamble of claim 1).
  • Positional terms used herein refer to a magazine which, in a substantially vertical direction from below, supplies cartridges to a weapon which is in a normal position in the weft direction and whose run is substantially horizontal, such as e.g. the rifle G3 is the case. If the magazine runs differently, for example from top to bottom (Bren machine gun) or horizontally (Sten submachine gun), then the position terms are to be interpreted accordingly.
  • Bar or drum magazines made of plastic are known. However, it would also be conceivable to produce plate magazines (as in the case of the Lewis MG) from plastic. All of these magazines have side walls that guide the cartridges or prevent the cartridges from falling out.
  • Plastic magazines have prevailed in recent decades, especially in self-loading rifles, not only because of their low price especially in curved bar magazines, but especially because of their high reliability: while a sheet metal magazine tends to be dented as a result of a shock or blow, one often hardly notices the bump and therefore does not consider it harmful, does not buckle a plastic magazine, but due to the elasticity of the plastic bump jumps out again, or the magazine breaks and thus makes his damage clearly visible.
  • plastic magazines are at least as reliable as sheet metal magazines, but stronger, according to the appropriate design and selected plastic lighter and freely mouldable: for example, a cartridge for the cartridge 7.63 x 51 (Natopatrone) may have the slight curvature that the front edge of the stack of cartridges also has because of their slight conicity, while a metal magazine for the same cartridge always straight sides has, because a curved sheet metal magazine is much more expensive to manufacture and because of the risk of manufacturing errors brings little advantage.
  • the curved plastic magazine for this cartridge is more reliable and also cheaper than the straight bar magazine made of sheet metal.
  • a plastic magazine according to the preamble of claim 1 is made EP 0154356 known.
  • the dimensioning plays a role: the distance, for example, the cartridge tip of the forward facing magazine wall, has proved to be particularly essential here. If this distance is too low, then it comes to clamps.
  • the length of a plastic magazine, seen in the weft direction, slightly larger than the length of a sheet metal magazine can be, for example because of the lower wall thickness of the sheet.
  • the smaller transverse dimension of the plastic magazine plays in zigzag storage of Cartridges do not matter. This can lead to difficulties when the rifle is designed for sheet metal magazines.
  • the rifle G3 which has been manufactured since the mid-50s, has dimensions of the magazine shaft, which do not fit into a plastic magazine - in the mid-50s, no one seriously thought of plastic magazines.
  • this G3 rifle is extremely popular, and consumers now want to buy cheaper and better plastic magazines for the magazines that are gradually being replaced.
  • there are serious difficulties because of the too short longitudinal dimension of the magazine shaft.
  • an army attached to NATO supply can not recommend using cartridges of e.g. Half a millimeter shorter than the Natopatrone.
  • the invention has the object to solve this problem.
  • it is an object of the invention to provide a magazine especially for rifles that works even better than previous magazines.
  • the metal coating be present only on the side wall in the weft direction, the front wall.
  • the coating on the front wall can be made thicker and be more effective. It has been shown that the pointed military floor primarily damage the plastic-only magazine on the front wall, so that the coating of this front wall is sufficient to prevent the damage.
  • the metal coating is a cover plate.
  • a sheet can be stamped and treated separately, such as hardened and / or bonded or phosphated, which is often not possible with electrochemical application. It is also possible to select particularly suitable alloys whose electrochemical application is not possible or problematical.
  • a steel or spring steel sheet can be selected as a cover plate (claim 2), ie an iron-carbon mixture which can not be applied electrochemically.
  • a thin sheet steel is best suited to take not only blows without them marks leave, but also spring back with the slight impression of the magazine wall together with this.
  • the metal sheet could be glued on. According to one embodiment of the invention, it is preferred that both sides of the front wall, a channel is formed, and that the metal sheet is inserted into the grooves (claim 3).
  • the gutters can be formed by strips formed on the inner surface of the side walls, because as the cartridges taper forward, but the cross-section of a rod magazine is approximately rectangular, the cartridges remain unobstructed by the strips.
  • the sheet since the sheet is flexible or resilient, it can be easily inserted even when the front wall is curved.
  • the front wall has a recess into which a formed from the sheet spring strip is incident to secure the sheet against falling out. So it is only necessary to insert the sheet from above until the spring strip has fallen into the recess. Then form plastic magazine and metal plate in a sense a part because they are permanently connected to each other.
  • the sheet could end bluntly on top of the front wall. But it is preferred that the sheet is bent on the top forward over the narrow side of the side wall (claim 5), so that it is protected against damaging shocks from above by the bent metal strip. This makes it possible to make the front wall thinner than would be possible without the sheet metal protection. Furthermore, this bent portion also serves as a feeding aid.
  • Fig. 4 is a finished, inventive magazine housing to see, which consists of a plastic part 1, the front wall 3 ( Fig. 2 ) is covered on the inside with a steel spring plate 5, which at the top has a folded edge 7, which covers the front wall 3 from above and protects.
  • the bridge 7 is especially in Fig. 1 to see.
  • a quiet 11 is formed inside the magazine ( Fig. 2 ).
  • the metal plate 5 is from inserted above into the plastic part 1, between the strips 11 and the front wall. 3
  • a spring strip 9 is pronounced and bent forwards. At the bottom of the spring strip 9 is in the metal plate 5, on the top of the spring strip 9 is opposite to the metal plate 5 in the forward direction of the metal plate 5 from.

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  1. Chargeur en matière plastique, comportant des parois latérales (3) en matière plastique, le long desquelles sont déplacées les cartouches au moment du rechargement dans une arme à feu, comportant un revêtement métallique (5), qui recouvre au moins une des parois latérales (3), sur le côté le long duquel les cartouches sont déplacées, ledit revêtement métallique étant une tôle de protection (5), caractérisé en ce que la paroi avant (3) du chargeur en matière plastique comporte un creux (13), dans lequel pénètre une bande de ressort (9) formée dans la tôle de protection (5), pour empêcher toute chute de la tôle de protection (5).
  2. Chargeur en matière plastique selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la tôle de protection (5) est une tôle en acier ou en acier à ressort.
  3. Chargeur en matière plastique selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que de part et d'autre de la paroi avant (3) est réalisée une rainure (11), et en ce que la tôle de protection (5) est insérée dans les rainures (11).
  4. Chargeur en matière plastique selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que les rainures (11) sont ouvertes sur le côté du bec du chargeur pour y faire coulisser la tôle de protection (5).
  5. Chargeur en matière plastique selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que la tôle de protection (5), sur le côté supérieur, est pliée (bord plié 7) vers l'avant au-dessus du petit côté de la paroi latérale (3).
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DE102006011278A DE102006011278B4 (de) 2006-03-10 2006-03-10 Kunststoffmagazin
PCT/EP2007/002020 WO2007104473A1 (fr) 2006-03-10 2007-03-08 Magasin en plastique

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KR (1) KR101154114B1 (fr)
AT (1) ATE476633T1 (fr)
CA (1) CA2643978C (fr)
DE (2) DE102006011278B4 (fr)
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EP1994355A1 (fr) 2008-11-26
DE102006011278B4 (de) 2008-01-03
DE102006011278A1 (de) 2007-09-13
CA2643978A1 (fr) 2007-09-20
DE502007004643D1 (de) 2010-09-16
ES2349339T3 (es) 2010-12-30
ATE476633T1 (de) 2010-08-15
US7937872B1 (en) 2011-05-10
CA2643978C (fr) 2010-09-28

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