The proposed invention relates to firearms, namely, to the box magazines with cartridge followers, and can be used in particular in automatic small weapons.
A magazine for small arms is known from the prior art (Patent RU no. 2158890, IPC F4A9/65, publ. 10 Nov. 2000), comprising a body with a receiver, a box-type follower arranged inside the body, on which two ramming devices are hinged, a spring located between the follower and the magazine base, and the ammunition stream separator placed on the walls of the body in its narrowing part, in which the ammunition stream separators are made in the form of diamond-shaped projections on the front and rear walls of the body with the formation between the lateral edges of the diamond-shaped projections and the body of two single-row channels to the receiver, while the box-type follower is made with a side reach-through window and two adjacent upper pads displaced throughout the height of ¼ diameters of the used cartridge, and rammers installed in the window of the follower so that the upper surface of one of the rammers projects above a higher platform of the follower, and the upper surface of the other rammer is buried under it. The disadvantage of the known technical solution is that:
Also known is a box magazine (Patent RU no. 2554030, IPC F4A9/69, publ. 20 Jun. 2015), comprises a body, a follower spring, and follower. The thickness of the magazine is 1.87-2.7 D (diameter of the bullet casing bottom) from the inside. The magazine also has two springs on the follower, the force of which is directed upward. In the second embodiment, a rocker is arranged crosswise on the follower and made in the form of double-arm equal-arm lever, to one end of which the support is fixed with the height of 0.5 D. The disadvantage of the known technical solution is that:
A magazine for small arms is known (Patent RU no. 2422748, IPC F4A9/71, publ. 27 Jun. 2011), which comprises a box-type body with bends in the upper part for holding the cartridges, cartridge follower with projection on the upper surface, spring, lid and cartridges arranged in double rows in staggered order. Recesses are made along the longitudinal axis of symmetry of the magazine body in the front and rear walls along with the whole height of the magazine, in which the give part of the bullet and the cartridge rim with the long bullet are placed. There is a transverse groove in the middle part of the projection on cartridge follower, in which spring-loaded slider is installed with the possibility of movement along the groove and interaction with the cartridge. The side surface of the slider faced to the cartridge and skewed at a close angle. The upper surface of the slider, as the part of the cartridge follower positioned in the recess in the rear part of the magazine, is made flush with the projection on the upper surface of the cartridge follower. One of the disadvantages of this magazine is that the magazine is not provided with a cavity for storing dust, dirt, sand and the like, and thus all of this accumulating on the ammunition on the friction surfaces will increase the friction which can lead to cessation of operation of the magazine.
The closest analog of the proposed magazine for small arms is the magazine in U.S. Pat. No. 8,776,419 B2 (IPC F4A9/61, publ. 23 Mar. 2012). The known double-stack magazine has a tubular body defining an elongated passage, a lower and an upper side, a floor plate wall connected to the lower end, a separator within the elongated passage
which is set distantly from the upper surface of the magazine box; a follower defining an aperture receiving the separator element and movable within the elongated passage; a spring within the passage having a first end contacting the floor plate, and having an opposed second end contacting and biasing the follower toward the upper end of the body; the magazine box consists of right and left side walls, in the middle of which there is a separator forming rows of ammunition. The disadvantages of the magazine according to U.S. Pat. No. 8,776,419 are that:
Therefore, a need exists for a new magazine construction for use in small arms to provide a high rate of firing. It is desirable to have a simple magazine, with light loading and recharging of ammunition, without contaminating internal soils, which makes it possible to simplify the operation of the magazines and to increase the reliability of the weapon as a whole without reducing the required firing rate.
The use of the proposed construction of a box magazine for small arms will achieve a technical result of increasing reliability, reducing the ammunition feed effort, which is provided by reducing friction in the magazine, due to removing side thrust from all ammunition except the upper three, which are staggered, and reducing of friction surfaces up to four points on a single ammunition. The magazine also contains a large number of cavities where dirt can accumulate, without interfering with the normal operation of the magazine.
According to the proposed invention the solution of the stated problem is achieved by the fact that in a magazine for small arms, which comprises a box made in the form of a tube of rectangular cross-section, at the top of which feed projections for fixing the ammunition are made, and a projection is made on one of the narrow side walls of the box for fixing the magazine to the weapon, a bottom lid with an opening, a magazine follower with a rectangular opening and a cylindrical protrusion, a coil spring, disk with rectangular through hole is installed between follower and coil spring, which presses the upper end of the coil spring to the follower, ammunition stream separator within the follower hole and located inside the coil spring. According to the invention, in addition there are grooves along the wide side walls of the magazine box, on the inner surfaces facing the ammunition a ground surface is made, wherein in the lower part of the box of the magazine, on the outer surface there is a triangular ledge, and in upper part of magazine box on wide side walls there are rigidly fixed plate inserts, on which the feeding projections are made, the polished section and the conical section, the feeding projections on the plate inserts are made at an angle equal to the angle of inclination of the handle on the weapon, measured with respect to the vertical axis of the weapon;
Furthermore, projections are made in the lower end of the magazine box along the wide side walls.
Furthermore, the height of the grooves along the wide side walls of the magazine box equals 0.138 of the outer diameter of the ammunition.
Furthermore, the width between adjacent grooves along the wide side walls of the magazine box equals 2.3 of the outer diameter of the ammunition.
Furthermore, the width between adjacent plate inserts equals 1.88 of the outer diameter of the ammunition.
Furthermore, the length of the polished section equals 1.222 of the outer diameter of the ammunition.
Furthermore, the polished section on the plate insert passes into the conical section.
Furthermore, the conical section is arranged at an angle of five degrees with respect to the vertical axis of the magazine.
Preferably, the upper surface of the disk is inclined and has an angle equal to the angle of inclination of the handle to the weapon.
Preferably, the middle part of the follower plate is inclined towards the short bent end with an angle equal to the angle of inclination of the handle, measured relative to the vertical axis of the weapon.
Furthermore, the cylindrical protrusion is located at the top of the edge of the middle part of the follower plate.
Preferably, the depth of the groove on the outer surface of the long bent end and the short bent end equals 0.06 of the outer diameter of the ammunition.
Furthermore, the height of the projections from the bottom of the long bent end and the short bent end equals 0.1 of the outer diameter of the ammunition.
Furthermore, the height of the cylindrical protrusion equals half of the outer diameter of ammunition.
Furthermore, the height of the tube of rectangular section equals two outer diameters of the ammunition.
Besides, the width of the tube of rectangular section equals the internal diameter of the coil spring in the uncompressed free state.
Preferably, a projection is provided on the lower end of the long plate for fixing the bottom lid.
Furthermore, the ends of the long plate are made radial.
Furthermore, the thickness of the long plate equals 0.1 of the outer diameter of the ammunition.
Furthermore, the surface of the upper part of the long plate is skewed at an angle equal to the angle of inclination of the handle on the weapon, measured with respect to the vertical axis of the weapon.
Furthermore, the pointed end is made with an angle of five degrees.
Furthermore, the through groove starts from the pointed end at a distance equal to the outer diameter of the ammunition.
Furthermore, the length of the through groove equals 0.5*N*D, where N is the number of ammunition in the magazine, D is the outer diameter of the ammunition.
It is preferable that cavity is formed between ammunition and a long plate of ammunition stream separator, between ammunition and inner walls of magazine box with grooves along wide side walls and in space portion of magazine bounded by fully compressed coil spring.
It is preferable that the follower fixes the ammunition stream separator in the middle inside the box of the magazine, said ammunition stream separator guiding the reciprocating motion of the follower.
The technical character of an invention is explained in the drawings where:
The arrangement and operation of the magazine that is claimed as the invention have been described with regard to inputted components and fragments, shown in
The following is a detailed description of the invention:
The lower end of the coil spring 6 pushes the base 30 of the separator 7 to the bottom lid 2 with the opening and the projection 31 at the lower end of the long plate 29 of the separator 7 and fixes the bottom lid 2 with the opening in its hole.
During the shooting the feed piece grips the upper ammunition 3a from under the feed projection 14 of the plate insert 10, boxes 1 and put it into cartridge chamber. Since the ammunition 3a, 3b, 3c between the plate inserts 10 of the box 1 are staggered, then they are fed alternately from the right and left rows, the follower 4 feeds the ammunition 3 under the action of the coil spring 6. In this case, the first three ammunition 3a, 3b, 3c on top of the magazine slide along the polished section 15 in the plate inserts 10 of the box 1. The length L15 of the polished section 15 is 1.222*D, due to this value, only two upper ammunition 3a, 3c are located in the polished section 15 and form a clear feed of the three upper ammunition 3a, 3b, 3c under the feed projections 14, in the same way, the length L15 does not give rise to a thrust force below the three upper ammunition 3a, 3b, 3c. The width B10 between adjacent plate inserts 10 is 1.88*D, and the height of the cylindrical protrusion 27 on the follower 4 is equal to 0.5*D-so that the ammunition 3 produces the displacement relative to the rows of 0.5D, and form the staggered order of the three upper ammunition 3a, 3b, 3c. This three ammunition 3a, 3b, 3c may acquire lateral thrust from the vertical component, due to the existence of tolerances on ammunition in their manufacture, which will lead to friction. Behind the three upper ammunition 3a, 3b, 3c the next fourth ammunition 3d falls into the conical section 16 formed by the plate inserts 10 of the box 1, and is suitable to the pointed end 32 of the separator 7 and begins to rearrange to one of the cavities formed between the ground surfaces 9 of the grooves 8 of the box 1 and the sliding section 34 of the long plate 29 of the separator 7, in this case, width B8 between adjacent grooves 8 is 2.3*D, due to this value all other ammunition 3 below the fourth charged ammunition 3d, will be strictly in the vertical order. A ground surface 9 is provided inside the box 1 on the grooves 8 to reduce friction when the ammunition 3 is slid. The conical section 16 on the plate inserts 10 and the pointed end 32 are made at an angle d16=d32=50 to the vertical axis of the box 1, which makes it possible to carry out the transition of the ammunition 3 from the row arrangement to the double-row in a staggered order practically without friction. Conical section 16 on plate inserts 10 with inner grooves 8 of magazine walls and pointed end 32 of separator 7 rearranges ammunition 3 in staggered order, at that the ammunition 3 rearrange from the row to the double-row arrangement and they are only moved to each other without being clinched between the rows, thereby increasing the reliability of ammunition feed 3. The pointed end 32 of the separator 7 begins at a distance H7=2.32*D from the inner side of the feed projection 14, where H7 is the distance from the inner side of the feed projection 14 to the pointed end 32 of the separator 7, D is the outer diameter of the ammunition 3, due to that distance the ammunition 3 is not wedged when returning in a staggered order. Behind the four upper ammunition 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d the next fifth ammunition 3e will be in the corresponding cavity already rearranged into the row order. All the ammunition 3 below the fifth will be not in staggered order, forming a vertical column in the respective cavities. Starting from the fifth ammunition 3e, all ammunition 3 only have a vertical component and do not have thrust. The thrust remains only in the three upper ammunition 3a, 3b, 3c, which are in staggered order. The ammunition 3 in the vertical column are fixed by the long plate 29 of the separator 7, which does not allow them to be rearranged into a staggered order and acquire the thrust. In this case, only four contact zones are formed for ammunition 3 located in the vertical column—two sliding platforms on the ground surfaces 9 of grooves 8 of box 1, and two sliding platforms, which are the sliding sections 34 of the long plate 29 of the separator 7. The sliding sections 34 have a minimum width due to the through groove 33, which reduces the friction of ammunition 3 in these sections. The width of the row Bp formed between the projection of groove 8 of the box 1 and the long plate 29 of the separator 7 is 1.1*D, where D is the outer diameter of ammunition 3, due to this value all remaining ammunition 3, below the fourth row, will be strictly in the vertical order. In operation of magazine, coil spring 6 is located between wide side walls of box 1 and contacts by two points along tangent with these walls, and slides along the radial ends 35 of the long plate 29 of the separator 7, which makes it small contact area and reduces friction of coil spring 6 to minimum value. In this case, the long plate 29 of the separator 7 prevents the compression of the coil spring 6 in the direction of the long side of the box 1, which makes it possible to use a coil spring for all kinds of magazines (pistol, automatic, gun-machine gun). The coil spring 6 is put on tube of rectangular section 28 by its upper end and rests against disk 5, the width of the tube of rectangular section 28 is B28=Dsp, where B28 is the width of the tube of rectangular section 28, Dsp is inner diameter of coil spring 6 in an expanded and free condition, due to this value, coil spring 6 is freely put on tube of rectangular section 28, and with a fully compressed coil spring 6, a minimum gap is formed between the inner diameter of the spring 6 and the tube of rectangular section 28. Upper surface 18 of disk 5 is made with inclination, the angle of inclination d is equal to the angle of inclination of the handle to the weapon when the magazine is in the handle. The inclination is made so that when the inclination of the ammunition 3 in the boxes 1 is changed, the shape of the coil spring 6 does not change and a strictly vertical force is created on the spring. The long plate 29 of the separator 7 is made equal to T29=0.1*D, where T29 is the thickness of the long plate 29, D is the outer diameter of the ammunition 3, so that a cavity 36 is formed between the ammunition 3 for passing dirt, sand in the lower part of the box 1, which reduces the friction when the ammunition 3 is fed, thereby improving the reliability of the magazine. Similarly, grooves 8 form cavity 36 between ammunition 3 and inner walls of box 1 and cavity 36 is formed in part of space of box 1, where the fully compressed coil spring 6 is located, it is there to accumulate all dirt, which does not interfere with the normal operation of the magazine. The lower end of coil spring 6 pushes base 30 of separator 7 to bottom lid with opening 2 and projection 31 of separator 7 and locks bottom lid with opening 2 in its hole. All of the above described increases the reliability of its operation in the proposed magazine and reduces the feed force of ammunition.
The proposed magazine is used in the following manner. When magazine is charged, ammunition 3 is inserted into middle part 19 of follower 4 plate, the first ammunition 3 is pressed and the first ammunition 3 is placed under the feed projection 14 of the plate insert 10 of the box 1. When the second ammunition 3 is taken, the cylindrical protrusion 27 of the follower 4 is pressed onto the cylindrical protrusion 27 of the follower 4, which is a guide of ammunition 3. When the following ammunition 3 is taken, the upper ammunition 3 is pressed and placed under the feed projection 14 of the plate insert 10 of the box 1. This operation is repeated until the magazine is filled. When the magazine is charged, the same processes are carried out as in operation only in the reverse order.
In the present invention, the construction of the magazine makes it possible to use it in the pistol grip, the ammunition does not transmit side force to the magazine walls and the spring requires less force to feed the ammunition.
The above-described example of the invention is provided by way of illustration only and should not be considered as limiting. Various modifications and variations may be made to the subject matter described herein, and without departing from the essence and scope of an invention as set forth in the following claims.
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