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A firearms magazine has compound tapered side walls and feed lips having substantially parallel end portions for maintaining contact with the cartridge as it is loaded. Removable inserts reduce the interior length and width to hold cartridges of different sizes. One insert has a channel along its he

A firearms magazine has compound tapered side walls and feed lips having substantially parallel end portions for maintaining contact with the cartridge as it is loaded. Removable inserts reduce the interior length and width to hold cartridges of different sizes. One insert has a channel along its height to protect the cartridge noses, and is held by a reinforcing member. A movable cartridge follower feeds the cartridges out of the magazine and has a pair of projections extending along its length for contacting and centering the last cartridge and a projection at one end slideable in the channel of the insert. The follower has one or more downwardly extending members to contact the floor or walls to maintain position of the follower with respect thereto. Projections extending inward from the side walls contact shoulders of the firearms cartridges in sliding relationship as they are fed out of the magazine.

대표청구항 ▼

Thus, having described the invention, what is claimed is: 1. A firearms magazine for retaining and feeding firearms cartridges comprising:a housing having a base capable of vertically stacking a plurality of firearms cartridges, the cartridges having a cartridge base, a cartridge nose, and a cartrid

Thus, having described the invention, what is claimed is: 1. A firearms magazine for retaining and feeding firearms cartridges comprising:a housing having a base capable of vertically stacking a plurality of firearms cartridges, the cartridges having a cartridge base, a cartridge nose, and a cartridge shoulder between the base and nose;opposite side walls above the housing base, at least a portion of which are non-parallel and taper in the direction of longitudinal axes of the cartridges from a greater internal width adjacent the cartridge base to a lesser internal width adjacent the cartridge shoulder, the non-parallel tapered opposite side wall portions being capable of retaining and feeding the firearms cartridges; andfeed lips at an open end of and extending from the non-parallel tapered opposite side wall portions for engaging a firearms cartridge as it is loaded from the magazine into a gun, the feed lips having ends adjacent the cartridge base and cartridge shoulder, the ends of the feed lips adjacent the cartridge base extending inward from the side wall portion toward the cartridge a greater distance than the ends of the feed lips adjacent the cartridge shoulder, the feed lips having substantially parallel upper edges between the end portions for simultaneously maintaining contact with at least a portion of the length of the cartridge between the cartridge base and the cartridge shoulder as it is loaded.