Patent ID: 7913610

Claim:
An ammunition box or magazine having divider walls dividing the interior of the box or magazine into bays for storing a continuous belt of linked ammunition cartridges starting in a first bay and running over a top of a divider wall and into a second bay adjacent to the first bay; and an ammunition retainer bracket apparatus, said ammunition retainer bracket apparatus preventing the belt of linked ammunition cartridges loaded into the bays of the ammunition box or magazine from being siphoned by the belt itself between the first and second adjacently located bays, the ammunition retainer bracket apparatus comprising an elongated body having a) on a first side, a first pair of tabs rigidly attached to the body and protruding from the body in a first direction, and b) on a second side, a second pair of tabs rigidly attached to the body and protruding from the body in a second direction, wherein the elongated body is affixed at the top of the divider wall of said first and second bays thereby positioning said first pair of tabs in or immediately above said first bay and said second pair of tabs in or immediately above said second bay, and the apparatus prevents the belt loaded into the bays of the ammunition box or magazine equipped with said retainer bracket apparatus, from being siphoned by the belt itself between said first and second adjacently located ones of said bays.