Patent ID: 8763511
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: F41A

Abstract:
1. An ammunition magazine for containing an ammunition belt of a plurality of linked ammunition cartridges to be fed into a machine gun, said ammunition magazine comprising: two parallel vertical side-walls, joined by a horizontal base, wherein the front end of said magazine in between said side-walls is open, enabling a leading end of said ammunition belt to be accessible for continuous feeding of said machine gun and for linking with a trailing end of another ammunition belt, and wherein the rear end of said magazine in between said side-walls is open, enabling a trailing end of said ammunition belt to be accessible for linking with a leading end of another ammunition belt; and two ledges, wherein each of said ledges internally projecting from a respective one of said side-walls of said ammunition magazine and extending substantially from the front end to the rear end along the entirety of the respective side-wall, for supporting selected cartridges of said ammunition cartridges when said ammunition belt is folded vertically inside said ammunition magazine, and when the folded portions of said ammunition belt are hung from and supported by said selected cartridges, wherein selected cartridges are resting on the ledges.