US 12,352,521 B2
Magazine loader
Sterling Allred, Orem, UT (US)
Filed by Sterling Allred, Orem, UT (US)
Filed on Apr. 15, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/635,520.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/496,564, filed on Apr. 17, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0344794 A1, Oct. 17, 2024
Int. Cl. F41A 9/83 (2006.01)
CPC F41A 9/83 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A loader configured to assist in loading cartridges into a magazine of a firearm, comprising:
an elongated sleeve having an open distal end and a hollow therethrough extending from the open distal end, the hollow sized and shaped to receive a stack of cartridges;
the hollow having a cartridge-shaped inner wall formed by a cross-sectional profile of the hollow taken perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis of the hollow, the cartridge-shaped inner wall having a shape configured to match a cross-sectional profile of a cartridge of the stack of cartridges taken along a longitudinal axis of the cartridge;
a collar at a proximal end of the sleeve and having an enlarged opening sized and shaped to receive an open proximal end of the magazine;
a plunger with a proximal end selectively receivable in the open distal end of the sleeve, and having an elongated shank slidable in the hollow of the sleeve and an enlarged head, the plunger configured to press the stack of cartridges through the hollow of the sleeve, out the enlarged opening of the collar, through the open proximal end of the magazine and into the magazine;
the elongated shank of the plunger having a cartridge-shaped outer wall formed by a cross-sectional profile of the plunger taken perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis of the plunger, the cartridge-shaped outer wall having a shape to match the cartridge-shaped inner wall of the hollow of the sleeve and configured to match the cross-sectional profile of the cartridge of the stack of cartridges; and
each of the cartridge-shaped inner wall of the hollow and the cartridge-shaped outer wall of the shank comprising at least:
a pair of rear walls that are straight, positioned closer to a rear of the loader, spaced-apart from one another, oriented substantially parallel with respect to one another, and configured to correspond to a body of a case of the cartridge; and
an ogive with a pair of front walls that are curved, positioned closer to a front of the loader, and oriented transvers to one another to culminate in a tip, and configured to correspond to a bullet of the cartridge.