This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. ยง119 to European Patent Application No. 09179686 filed Dec. 17, 2009, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The invention pertains to a magazine holder for detachably holding a cartridge magazine in a grip part of a handgun.
Previously known magazine holders for detachably holding a cartridge magazine in a grip part of a handgun usually feature an actuating element that can be operated from one or both sides and a locking mechanism that is acted upon by a spring element and makes it possible to fix the cartridge magazine within a magazine shaft or to release the cartridge magazine such that it can be exchanged. In known magazine holders, the spring elements merely serve for resetting the locking mechanism after the actuation. Separate holding elements are required for holding the cartridge magazine within the magazine shaft, wherein these holding elements usually require a complicated manufacture and assembly.
DE 29 05 770 C2 discloses a magazine holder for a pistol with a lever that can be pivoted about a transverse axis within the grip part. One lever arm is acted upon by a spring and features an extension in order to engage into a corresponding recess of the magazine. An actuating element that engages on the other lever arm makes it possible to pivot the lever against the force of the spring such that the extension on the lever arm is disengaged from the recess of the magazine in order to remove the magazine. The actuating element that can be operated from both sides of the pistol may consist of an adjusting bolt with conical adjusting surfaces that can be displaced transverse to the firing direction in the grip part against a spring force or of a web that is arranged in a recess transverse to the firing direction and can be pivoted forward with the aid of grip elements in order to unlock the magazine. Due to this design, the magazine holder can be actuated with the thumb of the firing hand by left-handed and right-handed persons. However, the magazine holder comprises a relatively large number of individual components that have complex shapes and cannot be easily manufactured.
The invention is based on the objective of developing a magazine holder of the initially cited type that can be operated from both sides of the handgun, as well as easily and inexpensively manufactured and assembled.
This objective is attained with a magazine holder with the characteristics described herein. Practical embodiments and advantageous additional refinements of the invention are also defined herein.
The inventive magazine holder features an actuating element that can be operated from both sides of the grip part and a spring element that not only serves for resetting the actuating element into a center position, but also features one or more locking elements for engaging into locking grooves of the cartridge magazine in an interlocking fashion. The spring element that acts as a return spring simultaneously fulfills the locking function for detachably holding the cartridge magazine in the grip part such that the number of required components is reduced and the manufacturing and assembly expenditures can be lowered.
In one particularly advantageous embodiment, the locking elements are realized in the form of locking edges on two bent retaining limbs of the spring element. Due to this measure, the cartridge magazine can be held in its functional position relative to the breech in a non-tilted and optimally aligned fashion.
The actuating element is advantageously arranged in a through-opening of the grip part in a transversely displaceable fashion and is detachably connected to operating elements that protrude from both sides of the grip part. The actuating element features openings through which the locking elements of the spring element can extend, wherein inner and outer edges are provided on said openings in order to move the retaining limbs into an unlocked position.
The magazine holder can be manufactured of two punched and bent components and a plastic part that can be used for both sides. This allows a simple and inexpensive manufacture.
Other features and advantages of the invention are disclosed in the following description of preferred exemplary embodiments with the drawings. In these drawings:
a, 4b show two different views of the locking element of the magazine holder;
a, 5b show two different views of a magazine holder slide of the magazine holder, and
a, 6b show two different views of a pushbutton of the magazine holder.
The magazine holder 3 arranged in the through-opening 8 comprises a spring element 11 that is realized in the form of a magazine retaining spring and an actuating element 12 that can be displaced transverse to the grip part 1 by means of two operating elements 13 that protrude from both sides of the grip part. The two operating elements 13 are realized in the form of pushbuttons in this case and preferably consist of plastic while the spring element 11 and the actuating element 12 are realized in the form of punched and bent components of sheet steel or the like.
The spring element 11 is illustrated separately in
a and 5b show the actuating element 12 that is also realized in the form of a punched and bent component and is manufactured of a rectangular sheet metal section. The actuating element 12 that can be displaced transverse to the grip part 1 contains a bent inner part 18 and two end webs 19, in which rectangular openings 20 are provided for connecting the actuating element 12 to the operating element 13. A rectangular opening 22 is respectively arranged in the bent inner part 18 to both sides of a closed center part 21, wherein the locking elements 16 of the two retaining limbs 15 of the spring element 11, which are realized in the form of locking edges, can extend through these rectangular openings.
The inner side of the operating element 13 illustrated in
The function of the above-described magazine holder is described below with reference to the locked position illustrated in
In the locked position illustrated in
When the actuating element 12 is displaced by depressing the right or left operating element 13 against the prestress of the spring element 11, the two retaining limbs 15 are pressed forward referred to the firing direction by the actuating element 12 such that the locking elements 16 in the form of locking edges are disengaged from the locking grooves 27 and the cartridge magazine 2 is released and can be removed. For example, when the operating element 13 that is illustrated on the bottom in
When the operating element 13 is released again, the prestressed spring element 11 returns the actuating element 12 into its center position. Consequently, a newly inserted cartridge magazine 2 can be once again automatically interlocked because the retaining limbs 15 of the spring element 11 are pressed down by the magazine housing 5 of the cartridge magazine 2 inserted into the magazine shaft 4 and automatically engage into the locking grooves 27 of the magazine housing 5 due to their spring tension.
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