Patent ID: 8082834

Claim:
Machine gun ammunition apparatus comprising a belted machine gun ammunition magazine box having: a top wall; first and second opposed end walls extending downwardly from said top wall; first and second opposed side walls extending downwardly from said top wall and between said first and second opposed end walls; a belted ammunition outfeed opening, extending outwardly through an upper portion of said magazine box, through which belted ammunition may be fed from within said magazine box to a machine gun; and a bottom wall structure having a top interior side portion sloping downwardly from one of said first and second side walls toward the other of said first and second side walls, said magazine box being configured to receive and operatively support a vertically serpentined length of belted ammunition having vertically successive belt lengths, each of the vertically successive belt lengths longitudinally extending transversely to said first and second opposed end walls and carrying ammunition rounds with projectile end portions, in a manner such that at least end portions of the belt lengths rest on said top interior side portion of said bottom wall structure with at least some of the ammunition round projectile end portions in vertically successive ones of the belt lengths being upwardly tilted to inhibit potential feed jam-creating intermeshing of such projectile end portions, and wherein said bottom wall structure comprises: a bottom wall, and a support structure secured within an interior bottom corner portion of said magazine box and defining said top interior side portion.