Patent ID: 7469496

Claim:
An apparatus for extracting and ejecting cartridges or spent cartridge cases from firearms, comprising in combination: a rifle having a trigger and a magazine holding ammunition; an extractor with a pair of pivoting arms that work in unison, including a left pivoting extractor arm and a right pivoting extractor arm, each with a lower catch area and an upper catch area at a gripping end that grips a rear end of a cartridge case in the lower catch area when the pair of pivoting arms is moving in a rearward position, the pair of pivoting extractor arms raising and lowering a spent cartridge case relative to the rifle; and an ejector which includes the upper catch area of the pair of pivoting arms that releases the spent cartridge case as the pair of pivoting arms cams down from a pivoted position ejecting the spent cartridge case into an exit portal on the firearm.