WILLIAM JULIUS HOWARD, JR
Pilots at Little John Dr, Wilson, NC

4538371, Sep 3, 1985

Oct 26, 1982

6/436655

William J. Howard - Wilson NC

F42C 2700

42 87

A magazine loader and a cartridge clip for rapidly and easily loading cartridges into a firearm magazine. The magazine loader comprises a cartridge-neck holder and a cartridge-base holder, both attached to a skirt. The base holder is adapted to receive cartridges held by a standard retainer strip or the novel cartridge clip.

5279059, Jan 18, 1994

Feb 5, 1993

8/013924

William J. Howard - Wilson NC

F41A 968

42 90

Described is a dual magazine assembly comprising a left magazine and a right magazine held together by a holder. The assembly permits either magazine to be received by a firearm even when the firearm has only a single magazine port. The holder comprises a female half, and a male half. The female half has a plate with left and right extensions for engaging the left and right magazines. The female half also has a tube perpendicular to the plate and integral with it. The tube has a hook-receiving surface. The male half also has a plate with left and right extensions for engaging the left and right magazines. It carries a prong adapted to mate with the tube of the female half. The prong has a manually releasable hook at its extremity. The hook overrides the ramp and engages the hook-receiving surface of the female half thereby holding the two halves together.

5149897, Sep 22, 1992

Dec 6, 1991

7/802831

William J. Howard - Wilson NC

F41A 962

42 50

A see-through magazine of a polyamide composition in which cartridges within the magazine are visible through the composition of the walls. The magazine holds and feeds cartridges to a bolt-equipped firearm. The magazine has a front wall, a back wall, and two sidewalls joining the front wall to the back wall. It also has a bottom plate closing the bottom of the magazine. A follower is spring-biased to move it away from the bottom plate. There are a number of integral translucent windows between internal ribs. Cartridges, when present can be seen through these windows.

4472900, Sep 25, 1984

Dec 22, 1982

6/452400

William J. Howard - Wilson NC

F41C 2502

42 50

A telescoping magazine for holding and feeding cartridges to a firearm. The magazine has a fixed portion which itself comprises a firearm-engaging section and a skirt. The firearm-engaging section and the skirt are each provided with a plurality of ribs for holding two parallel offset rows of cartridges. A slide slides within the skirt and comprises slots adapted to receive ribs of the skirt. The magazine also has a follower biased by a spring.

5285590, Feb 15, 1994

Oct 7, 1992

7/957368

William J. Howard - Wilson NC

F41A 970

42 50

A magazine for reliably feeding cartridges to the chamber of a firearm without stovepiping. Each of the cartridges has a uniformly tapered casing holding a projectile which projects from the casing. The magazine has a pair of juxtaposed, cartridge-retaining lips; a spring for biasing the cartridges toward these lips; and a pair of juxtaposed cartridge guides adapted to contact the projectile. These guides preventing orthagonal rotation of the cartridge during feeding of the cartridge to the chamber and this prevent stovepiping.

5435094, Jul 25, 1995

Jan 25, 1994

8/186709

William J. Howard - Wilson NC

A01K 9300

43 4313

A fishing system for carrying a fishing line away from the wake of a vessel employing an improved float. The float has mating female and male halves in the form of a tube. Each half has an integral eccentric weight and a passage to receive a fishing line. The ends are tilted. The integral eccentric weight is carried by the inside of the tube. The passage passes from the tilted surface of the female half through to the tilted surface of the male half. The float is wholly of thermoplastic resin. The open end of the male half mates in a water-tight manner with the open end of the female half with the integral eccentric weight of the female half juxtaposed from the integral eccentric weight of the male half. Rotational displacement of the integral eccentric weight from the downwardmost position causes the weight to exert a righting moment on the float. The float can be manufactured by injection molding techniques.

5329718, Jul 19, 1994

Jan 5, 1993

8/000682

William J. Howard - Wilson NC

F41A 769

42 50

A magazine for holding and for reliably and rapidly feeding cartridges to the chamber of a bolt-equipped firearm. Each cartridge to be fed has a rim and a shoulder. The magazine has lips, guides, and a follower. The lips are cartridge-retaining lips, which are uniformly forwardly outwardly angled substantially the entire length of the cartridge from the rim to the neck. The guides guide two parallel rows of cartridges toward the lips. The follower and a spring upwardly bias the two rows of cartridges such that the uppermost cartridge in one row contacts the lip above that row and the uppermost cartridge in the other row contacts the lip above the other row. The walls of the magazine have outwardly flared parallel skirt guides. These skirt guides retain a skirt which has certain features preventing its accidental removal.

4719715, Jan 19, 1988

Apr 17, 1987

7/039294

William J. Howard - Wilson NC

F42B 3906, F41C 2700

42 87

A magazine charger having a body with a spring and an open end for receiving a magazine to be charged with cartridges. The body has a closed end with a passage having outwardly flared walls. A plunger is in the passage. The plunger is adapted to move cartridges against the magazine spring. The charger also has a plunger spring which biases the plunger away from the open end of the charger. The plunger is operable to sequentially depress the uppermost cartridge, facilitating feeding of the cartridges to a magazine having two parallel rows of cartridges.

4777752, Oct 18, 1988

Jun 9, 1987

7/059924

William J. Howard - Wilson NC

F41C 2502

42 50

A blank magazine for feeding blank rounds to a bolt-equipped firearm. The magazine has a back wall and a front wall. The distance between the inner surface of the back wall and the inner surface of the front wall is less than the length of a standard round but is greater than the length of a blank round. The magazine also has structure which prevents any standard round from being fed by the bolt of the firearm.

4888900, Dec 26, 1989

Mar 9, 1988

7/165979

William J. Howard - Wilson NC

F41C 2502

42 50

A magazine for holding and for reliably feeding cartridge to the chamber of a firearm. The magazine has structure that causes lateral rotation of an advancing cartridge. This moves the tip of the projectile toward the centerline of the magazine. The magazine also has structure which then causes further lateral rotation and raising of the tip of the projectile.