Improvements in or relating to means to facilitate the charging of cartridge belts for machine guns

摘要

572,375. Cartridge belts for machine guns. BIRMINGHAM SMALL ARMS CO., Ltd., FAULKNER, H. A., and COMERY, P. D. April 26, 1940, No. 7503. [Class 92 (ii)] Disintegrating metal-link portions 3, 4 of cartridge belts of the kind in which the cartridges themselves serve to unite the link portions and form the hinge pins, are provided with a temporary U-shaped fastener 7 to unite the assembled link portions and facilitate the passage of the belt through a belt-loading machine. The fastener is removed by the nose of'the bullet 6 during the belt-charging opera-