US 12,228,370 B1
Apparatus and method for loading a cartridge into a chamber of break-action firearm
Keith Bernkrant, Cocoa, FL (US)
Filed by EUROPEAN AMERICAN ARMORY CORP., Cocoa, FL (US)
Filed on Aug. 19, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/808,998.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/533,601, filed on Aug. 18, 2023.
Int. Cl. F42B 39/00 (2006.01); F41A 9/84 (2006.01); F41C 9/08 (2006.01)
CPC F41C 9/085 (2013.01) [F41A 9/84 (2013.01); F42B 39/002 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for loading a cartridge into a chamber of a firearm barrel, comprising:
a housing having a plunger cavity and a cartridge retaining cavity, the cartridge retaining cavity adapted to receive the chamber of a firearm barrel;
a plunger at least partially disposed within the plunger cavity;
a spring providing a force on a cavity front surface of the plunger;
the plunger translatably attached to said housing, the plunger having a plunger front face adapted to be in contact with a rear surface of a cartridge to be loaded into a chamber of a firearm;
the cartridge retaining cavity adapted to removably retain a cartridge via a slidable engagement;
wherein, when said housing is motivated onto the chamber of a firearm barrel, a cartridge retained in said cartridge retaining cavity is motivated into the chamber; and wherein when said housing is motivated in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the chamber, a cartridge that is removably attached to said cartridge retaining cavity is removed from the cartridge retaining cavity, leaving the cartridge disposed in the chamber.