AMMUNITION FEEDER Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC F41A9/00 F41A9/68 F41A9/65 

FIELD: weapons and ammunition.

SUBSTANCE: "bull-pup" type automatic rifle mounted on carriage is equipped with bottom fixed magazine and automatic retainer to be manually cutoff for rifle sliding fire element.. Device comprises box-like single-row magazine furnished with lever-type spring-loaded round feeder arranged at firing element lateral wall to feed round to cartridge chamber by breech block. Capacity of intermediate magazine corresponds to the number of shots in fixed burst fired in recoil from front position or after automatic loading of intermediate magazine from the bottom primary magazine. Said intermediate magazine is arranged at breech box to feed rounds to gun breech assembly in "from top to bottom and sideways" pattern by spring-loaded feeder arranged at barrel hinge arranged across breech end axis to act of rounds in intermediate magazine. Besides the device comprises curved rib arranged inside gun stock to make the component of intermediate magazine wall lateral side to allow its rounds to displace laterally toward breech assembly into bends of intermediate magazine outlet.

EFFECT: smaller lateral size, possibility to shoot from left shoulder.

6 cl, 7 dwg