Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ammunition magazine box with adjustable tilted interior bracket structure
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Application No.: US12050610Application Date: 2008-03-18
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Publication No.: US07918153B1Publication Date: 2011-04-05
- Inventor: William F. Gordon , Michael F. Ingersoll , David C. Ussery , Caleb J. Rankin , Nathan P. Whitworth , James A. Hardin
- Applicant: William F. Gordon , Michael F. Ingersoll , David C. Ussery , Caleb J. Rankin , Nathan P. Whitworth , James A. Hardin
- Applicant Address: US TX Princeton
- Assignee: Contract Fabrication and Design, LLC
- Current Assignee: Contract Fabrication and Design, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Princeton
- Agency: Haynes and Boone, LLP
- Main IPC: F41A9/79
- IPC: F41A9/79

Abstract:
An ammunition magazine box is provided for receiving a vertically serpentined length of belted ammunition for selective outfeed from the box to a machine gun. A specially designed support bracket structure, representatively of a length adjustable construction, is provided and suitably secured within the interior of the magazine box. At least a portion of the belted ammunition loops rest on a top side surface of the installed support bracket structure. The top support bracket structure side surface is (1) laterally sloped, in a direction transverse to the lengths of the belt loops, to inhibit a tilting-created intermeshing of vertically adjacent projectile ends of the ammunition rounds which could cause a feed jam, and/or (2) longitudinally sloped, in a direction parallel to the lengths of the belt loops, to desirably lessen the ammunition outfeed force that must be exerted by the machine gun.
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