DEVICE TO FEED AMMUNITION Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC F41A9/00 F41A9/65 

FIELD: weapons and ammunition.

SUBSTANCE: device to feed ammunition comprises the main and an intermediate magazines installed on a small arms, such a carriage gun in a "bullpup" layout, equipped with an automatic fixator with the possibility of its manual disconnection. The main magazine vessel is equipped with an element for splint connection with a breech wall of a receiver with the possibility to anticipate rolling motion of the main magazine. A pusher of an upper cartridge is made in the form of a rigid element installed on a muzzle vertical hinged joint in a muzzle part of the main magazine neck and is equipped with a breech bevel flag facing upwards for a master ledge acting at the cartridge pusher with arrangement of the ledge at the lower part of the intermediate magazine surface facing the neck of the main magazine. The main magazine neck is equipped with a muzzle narrowing for stopping descent of an upper cartridge case with the possibility to anticipate deformation of a cartridge mouth and the possibility of bullet setting inside the upper cartridge case of the main magazine during its displacement under a fixing chute-like groove for locking a side cartridge output of the neck of the main magazine of the weapon.

EFFECT: higher reliability of ammunition feed device operation.

2 cl, 3 dwg