Patent ID: 8539872

Claim:
An ammunition holder for machine guns that downwardly ejecting spent cartridge cases, comprising: an ammunition container for holding plural linked rounds of belted ammunition, wherein the container has an overall weight and mass with a center of gravity, the ammunition container having a top opening; a single mount member next to the top opening of the ammunition container for attaching the ammunition container directly and only at one location to an existing mount for use with a side belt feeder on one side of a machine gun; a rigid surface on one side of the ammunition container and a single hinge beneath the single mount member for bending the ammunition container with the rigid surface so that the center of gravity of the mass and weight of the ammunition container is moved to an overall balanced position relative to the gun, and wherein the rigid surface is used for deflecting spent cartridge cases to one side of the machine gun instead of being ejected directly downward from the machine gun.