Improvements in Cartridge Boxes or Magazines.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Oct., 1899-Accepted, 24th Feb.,
1900
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cartridge Boxes or Magazines.
I, FRANK MILTON GARLAND, of 486, Elm Street, New Haven, County of New
Haven, State of Connecticut, United States of America, Inventor, 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:
My invention relates to cartridge boxes and has for its object the construction
of a cartridge box, which will hold a number of cartridges in a plurality of
columns and to provide mechanism that is adapted to present the several car-
tridges in each column to a single delivery outlet by force of their own weight.
Figure 1 is a view of a cartridge box attached to the body of a gun.
Figure 2 a sectional plan view upon line AB of Figure 4.
Figure 3 a sectional elevation upon line C-D of Figure 4.
Figure 4 a sectional elevation upon line E-F of Figure 3, and
Figure 5 a plan view of the inner pocket or cell.
In the drawings the numeral 1 designates the casing which is open at either
end; 2-2 covers having flanges 3-3 which overlap the sides of the casing and
retain it thereon, whereby the said covers form closures for the said open ends.
The bottom of the casing is cut away, as shown in Figure 3 to form an outlet
aperture, which aperture is closed by the slide 4, the inner edge being supported
by the projecting lip 5, and the outer end by the integral hook 6, which is
sprung into the hole 7. Ring 8 hangs loosely upon the hook and is used to
draw the slide out from its seat.
The particular form and construction of the casing may be varied indefinitely.
Suspended upon the rod 9, housed in the lugs 10-10 is an inner shiftable
pocket or cell 11, which is open at the top and bottom and its height being
much less than that of the casing 1, thereby leaving an open unobstructed space
between its bottom edge and the bottom of the casing, for a purpose hereafter
to be described.
12 designates the actuating tongue or lever which is hung upon the rod 9
at its upper end and projects downwardly nearly to the bottom of the casing.
and the angle of its face being such that it only binds against the bottom
cartridge in the column, leaving a clearance between its face and all of the
remaining cartridges, as shown in Figure 3. This is designed so as to reduce
the friction upon the cartridge to a minimum and ensure a positively actuated
device.
The exact amount of friction is obtained by inserting and varying the strength
of the spring 13.
Within a vertical corrugation 14 is hung the tongue 12, the tops 15 of the
corrugation forming a guide for the cartridges.
The construction shown and described provides for two cells in the cartridge
box, one being within the pocket or cell 11 and the other without. The car-
tridge box is loaded by placing cartridges in these cells, one above the other,
they occupying the relative positions shown by the broken lines in the several

page_text: figures, and the first column of cartridges being directly over the outlet aperture
with the tongue 12 held against the lowest cartridge in this column (see
Figure 3) by the spring 13.
The locking pin 16 is secured to the tongue 12, by pintle 17.
When tongue 12 is in the position shown in Figure 3 the locking pin 16 is
within recess 18 and sustains the weight of the pocket or cell, but when the
tongue assumes the position shown in Figure 1, the locking pin is withdrawn
from the recess and the pocket or cell swings to its discharging position upon
the rod 9.
Within casing 1 and pocket or cell 11, are secured guide bars 19-20 which
are preferably directly opposite the corrugation 14 and are designed to accomodate
the reduced portion of the cartridge and prevent lateral displacement thereof.
Many ways can be devised to attach the cartridge box to the gun, the one
here illustrated consisting of a hook 21 on the gun body 24 and pins or studs 22
secured to the box and which fit into said hook when the box is placed in
position, the lower end of the box being supported by a bracket 23.
The operation of my invention is as follows: the two cells are first loaded
with cartridges as before described, the slide 4 placed in position and the box
attached to the gun body. To discharge the cartridges from the box to the
firing mechanism the slide 4 is withdrawn, and the cartridges in the cell imme-
diately above drop by gravity therethrough upon the bracket 23 and are thence
conveyed into the firing mechanism. As the last cartridge in this cell which
was the uppermost one originally, passes through the outlet aperture, the
tongue 12 which has been constantly held against the bottom cartridge is
released and drops over against the inside of the casing 1, as shown in Figure 1,
withdraws the locking pin 10 and allows the pocket or cell 11 with its column
of cartridges to swing upon the rod 9, thus bringing the lower open end of the
said pocket or cell almost directly over the outlet aperture. The cartridges in
this cell are now discharged through the outlet aperture, solely by their own
weight, as in the case of those in the first column.
When all of the cartridges have been discharged from the box, the slide 4
is inserted and the box removed to be again loaded as before.
I prefer to attach the cartridge box to the body of the gun at an angle
thereto, as shown in Figure 1, so that the cartridges will roll upon an inclined
surface and the tongue 12 be operated by the weight of the cartridges in the
pocket or cell 11.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1-A cartridge box, constructed and operating substantially as specified.
2 In a cartridge box, in combination, a hollow casing, means for holding
a plurality of rows of cartridges therein, the said means permitting the several
rows of cartridges to be successively presented to a single outlet, substantially
as specified.
3 In a cartridge box, in combination, a hollow casing having an outlet
aperture, swinging partitions dividing the interior of said casing into chambers
or cells, and means whereby the said partitions are permitted to swing, substan-
tially as specified.
4In a cartridge box, in combination, a hollow casing, swinging partitions
therein, and means for locking said partitions against movement, substantially
as specified.
5 In a cartridge box, in combination, a hollow casing, swinging partitions
therein, means for locking said partitions against movement and means for
releasing said locking means whereby the said partitions are permitted to swing
substantially as specified.
6-In a cartridge box, in combination, a casing, swinging partitions dividing

page_text: the interior of said casing into cells or chambers, which are adapted to hold
rows of cartridges, means for permitting said partitions to swing when the last.
cartridge in the preceding cell has been discharged, substantially as specified.
In a cartridge box, in combination, a hollow casing, a pocket or cell
therein, an actuating tongue or lever, and a locking bar actuated by said tongue
or lever, substantially as specified.
8 In a cartridge box, in combination, a casing, swinging partitions dividing
the interior thereof into cells or chambers, means for holding said cells or
chambers rigid while the preceding cell is being emptied, and means for releasing
said holding means after the last cartridge from the preceding cell has been
discharged, substantially as specified.
1000
D. YOUNG & Co.,
11 and 12, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.