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US 12,253,326 · App. 18/117,014 · Granted Mar 18, 2025

Spent brass collection container

Inventor: Donn Burgess (Halifax, MA)
F41A9/60
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Patent No.
US 12,253,326
App. No.
18/117,014
Granted
Mar 18, 2025
Kind
B1
Abstract

A spent brass collection container including a housing assembly, a funnel assembly, and a compartment assembly. The housing is a container with an opening in a front side thereof, wherein the housing further includes a base for stabilization. The funnel assembly includes slanted guidelines inside the housing that conveys towards a neck, wherein the guidelines in conjunction with the neck creates a funnel-shaped portion inside the housing. The compartment assembly includes a drawer at a bottom portion of the interior of the housing, where the drawer slides in and slides out from a portion of the neck through a second opening of the housing. The elements of the foregoing are made of a heat resistant material that are adapted to receive cartridge cases or the like to collect them in the drawer to dispose them when the user may consider appropriate.

Claims (8)

1. A spent brass collection container, comprising:

a housing assembly including a housing, an opening, and a base, wherein the housing is a container with said opening in a side thereof, wherein said base has lateral flanges attached at the bottom side of said housing to provide stabilization, said housing is made of an impact resistant material with a heat resistant interior, said opening is an inverted trapezoid aperture placed proximal to a top edge of said side of said housing;

a funnel assembly including guidelines and a neck, wherein said guidelines are ramps placed at the interior of said housing, said neck is a channel in a center portion of said interior of said housing, said guidelines, said neck and said drawer are made of a heat resistant material, wherein said guidelines are attached to interior of said housing by means of the laterals, a front side, and a rear side of said housing, said slanted supports ramps conveys towards said neck; and

a compartment assembly including a drawer, wherein said drawer is a container removably attachable to said housing, said container further includes a second opening where said drawer is coupled, wherein said drawer is a box-shaped container that slides in and slides out from said neck through said second opening; wherein said housing receives cartridge cases, said cartridge cases are guided by the funnel assembly to the drawer.

2. A spent brass collection container, consisting of:

a housing assembly including a housing, an opening, and a base, wherein the housing is a container with said opening in a side thereof, wherein said base has lateral flanges attached at the bottom side of said housing to provide stabilization, said housing is made of an impact resistant material with a heat resistant interior, said opening is an inverted trapezoid aperture placed proximal to a top edge of said side of said housing;

a funnel assembly including guidelines and a neck, wherein said guidelines are ramps placed at the interior of said housing, said neck is a channel in a center portion of said interior of said housing, said guidelines, said neck and said drawer are made of a heat resistant material, wherein said guidelines are attached to interior of said housing by means of the laterals, a front side, and a rear side of said housing, said ramps conveys towards said neck, said neck in conjunction with said guidelines creates a funnel shaped portion; and

a compartment assembly including a drawer, wherein said drawer is a container removably attachable to said housing, said container further includes a second opening where said drawer is coupled, wherein said drawer is a box-shaped container that slides in and slides out from said neck through said second opening: wherein said housing receives cartridge cases, said cartridge cases are guided by the funnel assembly to the drawer.

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