An Improved Cartridge Holder.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Apr., 1894-Accepted, 16th June, 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cartridge Holder.
I, PAUL MAUSER, of Oberndorf on the Neckar, in the Kingdom of Württemberg
and Empire of Germany, Manufacturer, 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, reference being had
to the accompanying drawings and to the figures and letters marked thereon:-
The invention relates to cartridge holders of the class shown in the Specification
of Letters Patent No. 10130 dated May 27 1892, and consists of improvements in
these holders.
The object of the invention is to facilitate the charging or filling of the magazine
of breech-loading fire-arms by means of these holders by providing suitable devices
in the same to guide and support them better in the bridge-notch of the breech-
case, when the cartridge package is to be inserted into the magazine, and in such
manner as to allow of the filling of the magazine even when the gun is held in an
inclined position or at night. These means of supporting the holder in the bridge-
notch consist of projections on the flanges of the holder near the lower and upper
end of it, which are carried or guided in corresponding conical recesses in the
bridge of the breech-case, when the holder is put in it (to about the quarter of its
length). In such manner the holder is held fast in its position till the cartridges
are pushed out therefrom into the magazine-then the foregoing bolt pushes the
empty holder out of the notch of the bridge.
In the previous constructions of cartridge holder it might often and easily
happen that the cartridge holder, having no secure hold in the bridge-notch might
be removed or tilted, when the cartridges would be displaced and a proper filling
of the magazine would become impossible.
It will be understood, that my improved cartridge holder has all the same
objects, operates in the same manner and answers the same purpose as that shown
in the Specifications of Patents 12689 of the year 1888 and 10130 of the
year 1892.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1. is a front elevation of a holder for cartridges having an annular
peripheral groove around their base or rear end.
Figure 2. is a side elevation and
Figure 3 is a longitudinal section of the same,
Figure 4 is a cross section drawn on the line 1-1 of Figure to an enlarged
scale.
Figures 5 and 6 show the form of the leaf spring when placed within the
frame.
Figure 7 shows the spring itself taken out of the frame and in its free curved
shape.
Referring to the drawings which represent the holder similarly constructed to
that described in the Specification of Patent 10130° hereinbefore referred to and
consisting of a frame of sheet metal having a back a with longitudinal flanges b
which may be single or folded or doubled and a leaf spring f placed in this frame
in the usual manner, which presses outwardly against the bottoms of the cartridges
and holds them firmly in their position. But in contra-distinction to the previous
constructions the flanges b are provided near the lower and upper ends with
projections which are pressed out of the sheet metal or connected to it in any
Suitable manner. These projections e as before mentioned, enter corresponding
recesses (notches or holes, which do not fully pass through) in the notched bridge

page_text: of the breech case, when the cartridge-package with the holder is put into the latter.
In such manner the holder is held securely in the notched bridge in a slightly
inclined position as necessary, for inserting the cartridge's into the magazine whilst
the holder and with it the whole cartridge-package cannot be displaced, tilted or
removed even when the filling of the magazine is effected in a more or less
unsuitable position of the gun or at night.
The greater the pressure with the thumb on the top cartridge of the package
the more strongly is the holder fixed in its position in the bridge notch and the
more surely can the cartridges be put in right order into the magazine. In such
manner the new cartridge holder involves a great and important improvement in
repeating guns, which are filled by means of cartridge-packages. A further
improvement of the cartridge-holder specially for practical use is obtained by
pressing longitudinal ribs a¹ in the backs a, the inner surfaces a³ of which are
suitable for supporting the spring f. By this arrangement the spring is placed
freely and at a distance from the back a whereby a better action of the spring is
secured and all dust and dirt which might accumulate behind the spring, and
thereby injure its action, can be discharged by simply pushing or blowing.
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 holder consisting of a metallic frame having a back a provided
with a spring and having longitudinal flanges b either single or folded or doubled,
with projections e for guiding and fastening the holder in conical recesses in the
bridge-notch of the breech case of magazine guns, substantially as herein shown.
and described.
2. In a cartridge-holder consisting of a metallic frame having a back a provided
with a spring and longitudinal flanges either single or folded or doubled, the
back a having longitudinal impressed ribs a¹ the inner surfaces a of which are
used as supports for the spring f substantially as herein shown and described.
3. The improved construction of cartridge holder substantially as herein shown
and described and for the purpose stated.
DxLED A DPD 1410
PAUL MAUSER,
By Harris & Mills,
23, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.