Patent ID: 6257115
Filing Date: 2001-07-10
Classification: F41A

Abstract:
In an improved magazine and feed mechanism for firearms having a housing defining a barrel extending longitudinally there along, a means for holding a magazine mounted thereon and adapted to hold a plurality of cartridges extending laterally with respect to the housing and positioned to be urged from the magazine in successively following order outwardly through a cartridge outlet defined therein, a transfer disk rotatably mounted within the housing and including a cartridge receiving slot adapted to receive successive cartridges oriented laterally one at a time from the magazine positioned thereadjacent, the transfer disk being rotatable between a laterally oriented cartridge receiving position and the longitudinally oriented cartridge supplying position, and a rail member longitudinally movable between a forward position adjacent the barrel to a rearward position spatially disposed away from the barrel and a cartridge injector for transferring cartridges from said magazine to said transfer disk, the improvement comprising:a non-resilient end cap means (16) located adjacent to said cartridge outlet (18) on said magazine (20) for preventing cartridges (24) in said magazine (20) from passing through said cartridge outlet (18) unless under the influence of said injector (52).