US Patent Issued on July 28 for "Manually assisted belt fed machine gun drum assembly" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,086, issued on July 28.

"Manually assisted belt fed machine gun drum assembly" was invented by Sebastian John DiGiovanni (Cottonwood, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cylindrical machine gun ammunition carrier drum device with hand crank and spindle, which allows operator to regulate belt-fed ammunition at a proper cyclic rate of fire and reload linked ammunition in an efficient, accelerated manner. This retract and release belt-fed ammunition method would provide proper tension and uniformity to the linked rounds, preventing the weapon from malfunctioning and improve cyclic dispersion of ammunition. This method applies to all ...