Improvements in and relating to Magazine Cartridge Holders.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Dec., 1891-Accepted, 13th Feb., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Magazine Cartridge Holders.
I, PETER JENSEN, of 77 Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Fellow of
the Institute of Chartered Patent Agents, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement (a communication
to me from abroad by William Bishop Wheeler residing at No. 138 Golden Hill,
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America, Manufacturer) :-
My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in magazine holders
for shot gun shells and cartridges, and has for its object to provide an article of
this description which shall be capable of holding a number of shells or cartridges
superimposed longitudinally one upon the other, and in which an automatic spring
device shall serve to retain the shells or cartridges in the pouch and at the same
time permit of their ready extraction.
In the accompanying drawing-
Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improvement applied to a sportsman's
vest;
Figure 2, a rear elevation of said vest ;
Figure 3, a vertical sectional elevation of my improved pouch;
Figure 4 a detail perspective of the retaining device, and
Figures 5, 6, and 7, are sectional elevations, all showing modified forms of my
improvement.
Similar numbers denote like parts in the several figures of the drawing.
My invention is adapted for holding shot gun shells or rifle cartridges, and
may be applied to a vest as shown, or in any other form, as for instance a box
or case.
I have, however, shown my improvement in connection with a sportsman's
vest, since I consider that my invention will be popularly used in such relation.
Furthermore, in order to abbreviate and simplify this description, I will
hereinafter make mention of shot gun shells alone as the articles with which my
pouch is identified.
The vest which I have shown is of any ordinary and suitable pattern, and
is equipped with any convenient and serviceable fastening straps or the like.
In carrying out my invention I provide a pouch, 1, of any desired length,
according to the capacity sought for. This pouch is made of leather, duck, canvas,
or analogous material, and is of such size in cross section that a shot-gun shell may
readily drop therethrough from top to bottom. Within the lower end of the pouch
is a metallic tube, 2, which is made of thin spring metal tapering inward toward the
bottom and having at the top a flange, 3.
This tube is slotted at the lower end as seen at 4, in order to permit of a resilient
action at that location. Any suitable means may be employed for securing the
tube within the pouch, and in the present instance I have shown a wire, 5, encircling
said tube and pouch and drawn tightly around the same by twisting the ends of the
wire at the rear of the pouch, as shown at 6. In order to still further facilitate the
securing of said tube, the pouch itself may be slightly contracted at the lower end
so as to snugly encircle said tube.
The shells, 7, are dropped within the pouch from the top and assume the positions
shown at Figure 2, the head, 8, of the lowermost shell being grasped by the
tapered sides of the tube, 2, whereby said shell and the shells supported thereby
are retained within the pouch.
The lower half of the bottom shell depends without the pouch, and the tapered
sides of the tube offer a sufficient resistance to prevent the accidental extraction of

page_text: said shell from the pouch, while at the same time said shell may be readily extracted
by grasping it in the hand and giving it a yank.
In applying my improvement to a vest as shown, the pouches may be secured in
convenient position on the front. part of the vest so as to form a part thereof, or
said pouches may be made separate from the vest and detachably secured thereto
by hooks and eyes or by buckles and straps, or in any suitable and ordinary
manner.
While my invention is preferably exemplified in the form of a resilient tube as
shown, it should be borne in mind that the gist of my invention rests not in the
pouch itself, nor in the spring retaining device at the bottom of the pouch, but in
the broad idea of an automatically yielding and resilient spring element at the
lower end of said pouch.
I am fully aware, that, prior to my invention, magazine pouches have been
patented which were provided at the lower ends with spring retaining devices,
but in all such instances the latter are not automatic, but must be operated by the
hand before the shells can be extracted, and moreover such devices are too
complicated to meet with the favour of sportsmen and add greatly to the cost of
a pouch.
In view of the broad scope which my invention merits, I have illustrated in
Figures 5, 6, and 7, several ways in which my invention may be practised without
departing from the spirit thereof, and a clear understanding of the constructions
shown in these figures will be had from the following brief description.
In
In Figures 6 and 7, the tube is omitted, and in place thereof I have substituted
ordinary flat springs, 9, riveted at 10 to the pouch or secured thereto in any ordinary
manner. In Figure 7 the springs extend to the bottom of the pouch so as to grasp
the head of the shell continuously during the extraction of the latter, while in
Figure 6 the springs terminate at the point where they grasp said head.
Figure 5 I have shown a straight tube provided with the flat springs, 9, as
in Figures 6 and 7. The spring element shown in Figures 5, 6, and 7, is automatic
in every respect, and the construction thereof is practicable and useful, but I prefer
that form of my improvement which I have shown in Figures 3 and 4, since the
spring elenient therein is stiffer and more durable, and the tube is more readily
secured within the pouch and presents a neater appearance than any independent
spring devices.
Of course it will be readily understood that the tube may be cut or shaped in
various ways to provide for the spring element, care being taken that the latter
shall be stiff enough to prevent accidental extraction of the shells.
In adapting my improvement to a vest, I would provide a flap, 11, which hangs
down in front of the depending shells as a curtain, but this of course is not material
to my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A magazine holder for shot gun shells and rifle cartridges, the same com-
prising an elongated pouch having at the lower end an automatically yielding and
resilient detaining device, substantially as set forth.
2. In a magazine holder for cartridges, an elongated pouch for the reception of
the latter, said pouch having secured in its lower end a spring device adapted
in normal position to grasp the head of a cartridge after the latter is pro-
jected beyond the bottom of the pouch, said spring being automatically yielding
and resilient, whereby said cartridges may be successively extracted one at a
time by simply pulling them from the pouch, substantially as set forth.
3. In a magazine holder for cartridges, an elongated pouch having secured within
the lower end a tube, said tube tapering inward at the bottom and slotted to afford
a yielding and resilient spring for retaining the cartridges, substantially as set
forth.

page_text: 4. A magazine holder for cartridges, comprising an elongated pouch having
within the lower end a tapered tube slotted to afford a yielding and resilient spring
for retaining the cartridges, said tube having at its upper end a flange, and a wire
bound around said pouch and tube beneath said flange substantially as shown and
set forth.
Dated this 29th day of December 1891.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.