Patent ID: 9581400
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: F41A,F42B

Claim:
1. An apparatus for repeatedly aligning and loading ammunition into a firearm having a magazine-well and a magazine ejection device, said apparatus comprising: an adapter mounted onto a handguard of the firearm forward of the magazine-well, the adapter comprised of a beam and a set of fastening elements, wherein the adapter provides a platform that won't slip relative to the firearm while the firearm is being fired; a vertical slide rail, which is a rigid structural member, comprised of an end that is mounted to the adapter and an opposing end that is terminated with a full-stop element, wherein the vertical slide rail functions as a guiding track to which a carriage can be secured; a vertical slidable element that is supported and guided by the vertical slide rail, wherein the vertical slidable element functions as the carriage to move a long the vertical slide rail even when the vertical slidable element is under stress, wherein the vertical slidable element has a mountable surface that when the apparatus is mounted on the firearm, the mountable surface of the vertical slidable element faces rearward toward the magazine-well; a rotatable multi-magazine manifold comprised of a polygon having an axial center and a plurality of perimeter walls, wherein each of the perimeter walls has an external mounting face, each mounting face can receive and hold a magazine by a base portion of the magazine in alignment with the magazine-well, and when the rotatable multi-magazine manifold is filled the magazines are in radial alignment with the axial center; a rotatable strut assembly that is fastened to the mountable surface of the vertical slidable element, wherein the rotatable strut assembly is comprised of a rearward projecting strut that is co-extensive to the axial center of the rotatable multi-magazine manifold, and a plurality of set points that correspond to positions where each of the magazines on the rotatable multi-magazine manifold will be aligned with the magazine-well as the manifold is incremental rotated; wherein, when the magazine ejection device is actuated, a current magazine in the well is ejected causing the manifold, the rotatable strut assembly, and the vertical slidable element to drop to their lowest position, wherein the rotatable multi-magazine manifold can be turned to a next set point for a next magazine, and the next magazine is now positioned beneath and in-line with an empty magazine-well, wherein the next magazine can be shoved into the empty magazine-well, by raising the rotatable multi-magazine manifold, therein resetting the rotatable strut assembly and the first vertical slidable element to an upper operational position; and wherein repeatedly aligning and loading of the firearm is accomplished without the need to visually disengage from a target.