US3054322A - Hollywood super-turret reloading press - Google Patents

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Sept. 18, 1962 s. CORCORAN HOLLYWOOD SUPER-TURRET RELOADING PRESS Filed June 15, 1959 4 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR. LYLE S CORCORAN BY 2f Z ATTORNEY p 1962 L. s. CORCORAN 3,054,322

HOLLYWOOD SUPER-TURRET RELQADING PRESS Filed June 15, 1959 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENT OR. LYLE 5. CORCORAN ATTORNEY 4 Sheets-Sheet 3 L. S. CORCORAN HOLLYWOOD SUPER-TURRET RELOADING PRESS Sept. 18, 1962 Filed June 15, 1959 i limmlunnlmll Sept; 18, 1962 L. s. CORCORAN 3,054,322

nor-.uwooo SUPER-TURRET RELOADING PRESS Filed June 15, 1959 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 INVENTOR. LYLE 5. COIZCORAN ATTORNEY United States Patent Ofi Patented Sept. 18, 1962 ice 3,054,322 HOLLYWOQD SUPER-TURRET RELOADING PRESS Lyle Shellman Corcoran, 6116 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, Calif. Filed June 15, 1959, Ser. No. 820,278 Claims. (Cl. 86-23) This invention relates to small arms cartridge processing apparatus and has as its general object to provide a turret type, multiple operation press capable of a wide variety of uses in loading, reloading, sizing, wadding, crimping, bullet swaging and other processing operations upon small arms cartridges such as shot gun shells, rifle cartridges, revolver and pistol ammunition, etc., of all types.

The invention primarily deals with a press having a turret providing a relatively large number of operating stations and being operable for indexing the same to bring the several stations successively into alignment with the common work axis of work and tool holding members, one of which is embodied in a shell holder slide and the other of which is embodied in a primer rod support.

The invention further contemplates such a press wherein the turret is located above the shell holding slide and the primer rod support is located below the slide, whereby to facilitate a better view of the work by the operator as he performs a sequence of operations on the press.

More specifically, the invention aims to provide an apparatus for rapid execution of a series of shell reconditioning and reloading operations wherein the shell holder slide is movable downwardly to present a cartridge case or shell to a primer rod support mounted in a fixed position below the slide, and is movable upwardly to present the shell or case to an overhead turret for a series of operations including, for example, resizing, powder loading, wadding, shot loading, closing and crimping (or bullet insertion and swaging). In the series of operations performed in the upward position of the slide, the turret is adapted to be indexed successively to new positions for presenting a succession of processing tools and devices to the work axis where they will become operative to perform their respective functions upon the case or shell that is held by the slide.

A particular object of the invention is to provide such a press having novel and improved means providing stable support for the turret while accommodating indexing movement thereof. In this feature the invention further contemplates such a means which provides for ready removal of the turret from the press frame or pedestal and which, when attached, provides an anti-friction bearing support for the turret capable of taking the fairly heavy axial loads applied eccentrically to the turret by the shell loading slide.

The invention further contemplates such a press wherein the shell holding slide embodies a supplementary turret for supporting a series of cartridge shells or cases for successive alignment with the work axis.

A further object is to provide such a press having an overhead turret in association with a ball detent type of turret stop or positioning mechanism, together with auxiliary turret bracing means, all disposed in a relationship such as to avoid obstructing the view of the operator as he stands in front of the press performing operations thereon.

A further object is to provide such a press having a manual lever-operated pressure applying linkage including a bell crank and repositioning means in the connection between the bell crank and the shell holder slide, such as to vary the leverage that can be applied to the slide between relatively high and low limits, the high leverage being utilized for swaging bullets for rifles, pistols, etc., and the low leverage being utilized for shell reloading operations.

More specifically, the invention contemplates such a press wherein a turret, mounted in an overhead relation upon a frame pedestal, is normally stabilized by an overhead removable bearing at the center of the turret, but can be given additional rigidity in the immediate area of the working station by means of tension tie rods which are removable to accommodate indexing of the turret. The auxiliary stabilizing tie rods are utilized for the high pressure swaging operations and are discarded during shell reloading operations.

Other objects and advantages will become apparent in the ensuing specification and appended drawing in which:

FIG. 1 is a side view of a press embodying my invention, adjusted to the low leverage linkage for shell reloading operations; parts being broken away and shown in section;

FIG. 2 is a side view of the same, adjusted to the high leverage linkage for swaging operations, with additional break-away and sectional showing to better illustrate internal structure;

FIG. 3 is a front view of the press with parts broken away and shown in section;

FIG. 4 is a plan view of the away; and

FIG. 5 is a horizontal transverse sectional view of the press taken on the line 5-5 of FIG. 1.

Description of Apparatus press with parts broken General description-Referring now to the drawings in detail, I have shown therein, as an example of one form in Which the invention may be embodied, a combined shell reloading and swaging press embodying, in general, a frame or pedestal A, a turret B mounted for rotary indexing movement on the upper end of pedestal A, a central thrust bearing cap C for normally taking the upward thrust of work operation against the turret; a shell holder slide D for holding and presenting cartridge cases and shells to the underside of the turret for various processing operations upon such cases or shells; a primer rod support E secured to the forward side of the pedestal A below the slide D; pressure applying actuator linkage F for moving the slide D upwardly and downwardly in successive operations in which cartridge cases or shells are successively presented to the turret B for processing operations; and the auxiliary turret-bracing means G.

Detailed description-pedestal.-The pedestal A, prefably a casting, has a base 10 provided with bolt apertures 1:10 for bolting it down to a work table and, rising from the base 10, a body comprising a vertical slide channel 11 on its forward side and a relatively wide reinforcing rib 12 extending rearwardly of the slide channel 11, the pedestal body being of Y-section horizontally and including a pair of V-groove slide ways 13 (FIG. 5) in the laterally spaced side members of the channel 11. In its lower forward region, the pedestal A embodies a rearward widening of the channel 11 to provide a crank housing 14 (FIG. 1) which provides a rearwardly widening clearance recess 15 (FIG. 2) for free operation of the actuator mechanism F. Above the recess 15 is a transverse reinforcing web 16 which ties the two sides of channel .11 together transversely for bracing purposes. Above the web 16 the channel 11 is widened rearwardly (FIG. 1) to provide a turret mounting head 17 which extends to the upper end of the pedestal. Head 17 has a central integral cylindrical portion 18 (FIG. 2) projecting upwardly to provide a bearing trunnion upon which turret B is mounted for indexing movement. The upper end of trunnion 18 is threaded, at 19, to provide for detachable anchoring of the thrust bearing cap C to the pedestal by threading action.

Viewed from the front, the crank housing 14 is widened to provide a pair of cars 20 (FIG. 1) which are provided with aligned cylindrical bores 21 to receive the fulcrum pin of the actuator linkage F, hereinafter described. Ears 20 are integrally joined to base 10 for added strength.

Reinforcing web 12 has at its upper rear corner an upwardly projecting integral finger 22 which is spaced from the horizontally opposite portion of web 12 by a gap 23 providing for passage of underhanging dies, tools etc. that are mounted in the turret B. In the upper end of stud 22 is a ball detent bore 25 in which is mounted a coil spring 26 upwardly loading a detent ball 27 for yielding positioning of the turret B as will be described more fully hereinafter.

The turret B.--The turret B comprises a flat circular disc body 30 having a pair of operating handles 31 secured in diametrically opposite portions thereof and projecting radially outwardly, and having a plurality (e.g. twelve) of threaded holes 32 in which various dies, tools etc. can be mounted. Adapter insert bushings 33 are utilized for mounting the smaller processing units, each bushing 33 having a knurled radial flange 34 for manipulating the same and having a central threaded bore 35 to receive the processing units.

Turret B has a central hub 36 integral with the disc 30, projecting upwardly therefrom and furnished with a cylindrical bore 37 which provides a bearing surface to engage the cylindrical external bearing surface of trunnion 18 with a snug but freely rotatable fit. In its under face, turret B has a series of detent recesses 38 in number and positions corresponding to the mounting holes 32, and located for reception of the detent positioning ball 27 for yieldingly holding the turret in any one of its several operative positions.

Thrust bearing cap C.The thrust bearing cap C is of cylindrical shallow cap form, relatively heavy, including a cylindrical lateral wall member 40 which is internally threaded for attachment to the threaded upper end 19 of stud 18, having a flat radial bottom rim surface 41 for hearing engagement with a correspondingly flat top surface of hub 36 of the turret, and having a relatively thick end wall member 42 in the center of which is mounted a threaded thrust stud 43. The lower end of stud 43 has a spherical socket bearing against a thrust take-up ball 44 which in turn is nested in a semi-spherical socket 45 in the upper end of trunnion 18. The function of the thrust takeup stud and ball 43, 44 is to exert upward pressure against the cap C from the pedestal, lifting its threads into tight engagement with the undersides of the threads on threaded trunnion tip 19 so as to eliminate excess clearance between the bearing rim 41 of the cap and the hub 36, and to minimize undesirable effects of the upward thrust of the hub 36 against the cap C when working loads are being applied to the turret B from the slide D (e.g. through a shell supported in a shell holding cup 46, FIG. 4). Such loads, with excess clearance, would cause unequal pressures to be exerted by the hub 36 against the cap C through slight canting of the turret which would tend to occur if excessive clearance existed. Stated somewhat difierently, the thrust take-up parts 43 and 44 provide for maintaining the cap C under constant upward thrust at all times and thus permit a closer adjustment of its bottom bearing surface 41 to the top of hub 36, so that when upward thrust from slide D is exerted against the turret, its hub 36 will immediately meet with unyielding resistance from the bearing surface 41 of the cup C. That is, the upward loading of the threads of cap C against the threads of trunnion 18 eliminates all yield between the cap and the trunnion 18 when upward turret thrust is applied to it, and thereby maintains the cap C rigidly (avoiding tilting) in a plane exactly parallel to the upper end of hub 36.

Slide unit D.-The slide unit D comprises a slide bracket 50 formed integrally with a shoe 51 (FIG. 2) having respective laterally extending wings 52 slidable fitted in the V-groove slideways 13. The shoe 51 is inserted into the slideways through the open upper end of the channel 11 when the turret B is removed.

Bracket 50 has in its outer end a vertical bore 53 in which is mounted a pivot shank S4 of a relatively small turret 55 which has four mounting holes 56 for socketing the shanks of numerous shell holder dies 46 and other processing devices. A self locking nut 54' is threaded onto the lower end of the turret shank 54 to secure the same in the bracket 50. In the periphery of turret 55 (FIG. 2) are four detent recesses 57 which cooperate with a spring loaded holding ball 58 mounted in the slide shoe 51 in an upper portion thereof 59 projecting above the bracket 50 immediately adjacent the periphery of turret 55.

The lower end of the slide shoe 51 of bracket 50 is bifurcated to provide a pair of ears 60 which have transversely aligned bores 61 to mount a wrist pin 62 by means of which the unit D is connected to the actuator mechanism F.

Primer rod supp0rt.-The primer rod support E comprises a bracket 63 having a bifurcated foot portion 64 with wings, like the wings 52 of bracket 50, snugly seated in the lower portions of the slideways 13 and secured therein by set screws 65 threaded through the respective sides of channel 11. Thus the bracket 63 becomes functionally an integral part of pedestal A. However, it is fabricated separately and mounted in the manner just described, in order that the slideways 13 can be machined to a sufficient length to permit the full travel of slidebracket 50 to a lower limit position in which the ears 60 closely approach or contact the bracket 64. This provides for maximum vertical compactness in the apparatus combined with minimum height in the bracket 63 and maximum amplitude of vertical movement of the unit D. The bifurcation of foot portion 64 provides a central vertical slot in which an actuator link is received.

Unit B further includes a still smaller turret 66 having a cylindrical shank 67 mounted in a vertical bore in bracket 63 and secured by a nut 67' in substantially the same manner as the mounting of turret 55. A ball detent holding means is provided at 58 between the underside of turret 66 and the upper face of the bracket 63 for holding the turret 66 in its several adjusted positions. Being of comparable construction to the other ball detent holding devices hereinbefore described, detent 58 is not shown or described in detail.

The turret 66 has four equally circumferentially spaced mounting holes 68 in which primer rod 47 (FIG. 1) staking tools, etc. can be mounted for operation through a vertical bore 69 in the bracket 50 on the work axis. Projecting upwardly through the opening 69, the primer rod 47 or the like is adapted to operate upon the primer cap or other part of cartridge case or shell mounted in one of the shell holders 46 or directly in a hole 56 of the turret 55 of unit D.

At this point it may be noted that the mounting holes 56 and 68 of the turrets 55 and 66 are positioned on a common radius and in equally spaced circumferential array and that the turrets 55 and 66 are so positioned on axes (or on a common axis as shown) sufficiently forward of the vertical axis of the mounting holes 32 of turret B so that the mounting holes 56 and 68, when adjusted to rearward positions, will be located on the axis of the mounting hole 32 which is in a forwardly adjusted central position, i.e., the work axis.

Actuator mechanism F .--Actuator mechanism F comprises a bell crank 70 having a lever socket 71 constituting one arm thereof, and a transmitting arm 72 constituting its other arm and extending at approximately to the socket 71. A handle lever 73 is adapted to be inserted in the socket 71 for applying sufficient operating leverage to develop the pressures required for the proper use of the apparatus. Transmitting lever 72 is of bifurcated form, including two arms having respective transverse aligned bores 74 and 75 (two sets at different radial spacings from the fulcrum bore 76 of the bell crank 70). A fulcrum pin 77 is removably inserted through the bearing bores 21 of the ears 20 and through the bore 76 of bell crank 70. Pin 77 may have an enlarged handle 78 at one end and a yielding spring-loaded detent ball 79 in its other end, for holding it in operating position.

The linkage further includes a connecting link 80, having respective apertured ends one of which is linked to the transmitting arm 72 of the bell crank by a connecting pin 81 extended through one or the other of the sets of bores 74, 75, the other end of the connecting link 80 being linked to the bifurcated lower end 60 of the slide shoe 51 by the wrist pin 62 formerly referred to.

For exerting high leverage pressure against slide unit D for swaging and like operations, the connecting rod 80 is adjusted to a position wherein it is linked to the lever 72 by inserting connecting pin 81 through the bores 75, as shown in FIG. 2. In this arrangement, the lever arm of lever 72 is one half as long as in the case where the apparatus is used in shell loading operations, with the connecting rod linked to lever 72 by inserting the connecting pin 81 through the outer set of apertures 74. In order to have sufiicient space for inserting and removing the connecting pin 81, the fulcrum pin 77 is first withdrawn, the bell crank 70 is swung outwardly from the bell crank recess 15, and the operation is performed in this outwardly projecting position of the bell crank. The bell crank is then shifted back into the recess 15 and the fulcrum pin 77 is restored to operation position.

Bracing means G.The auxiliary bracing mechanism G, used when the high pressure of swaging operations etc. are developed with the apparatus as shown in FIG. 2, comprises a pair of tie rods 85 each having a threaded lower end 86 which is adapted to be anchored in a threaded socket 87 in the upper outer corner of a respective fulcrum ear 20. Each of the rods 85 extends through a turret hole 32 and has a threaded upper end 88 to receive a nut 89 for transmitting support to the turret B through one of the bushings 33.

By referring to FIGS. 4 and 5 it may now be noted that the bottom sockets 87 are laterally and equally spaced on respective sides of the work axis at the proper distance to register with the axes of two turret holes 32 located on respective sides of the work axis with another of the holes 32 disposed between them and on the work axis. Thus the tie rods 85, when used, will be disposed on either side of the operation space in which the various operations take place and will not interfere with operations. These tie rods 85 will be used to assist the thrust bearing C in taking the upward loads against turret B in the high pressure swaging operations and the like. Although shown also in FIG. 1, where the apparatus is adjusted for the lower pressure operations (the showing being for the purpose of illustrating the connection to sockets 87 which are not shown in FIG. 2) it will be understood that normally with the actuator linkage in the relationship shown in FIG. 1, the tie rods B will be removed and out of the way.

Operations To illustrate the use of the apparatus, I will describe a number of typical operations including the following:

Shell loading-As an illustrative example, it will be assumed that shot gun shells are to be loaded. For reloading rifle or pistol cartridges, a suitable cartridge case holder 46, which may be of the type shown in my issued Patent No. 2,550,973, may .be mounted in one of the mounting holes 56 of turret 55 of the slide unit D, and is positioned at the rearward central position by rotational adjustment of the turret 55. For reloading shot-gun shells, shell holders of the type shown in my Patent No. 2,819,644 may be mounted in turret holes 56 of slide unit D. In the turret B will be mounted a series of processing devices such as, for example, case resizing tool, a decapping tool, a powder charging device, then a wadding device, then a shot loading device, a star crimping device, and finally, a finish-crimping device.

These processing tools may be of the type shown in my issued Patent No. 2,819,644 referred to above, and are not disclosed in detail herein. Some of these tools may be mounted in respective bushings 33 and others (having threaded shanks of larger diameter) may be mounted directly in the turret holes 32. A series of used shot shells mounted in respective holders 46 in turret 55 may then be presented in succession to the Work axis by successive stages of indexing movement of turret 55 and as each shell is aligned with the Work axis, the op erating handle 73 may be moved downwardly to elevate the turret 55 for successive decapping operations in which a decapping punch, mounted in turret B and projecting downwardly, engages the burned out primer caps of the respective shells and punches them downwardly out of the shells. When all of the shells held by turret 66 have thus been decapped, fresh primer caps may be inserted into the respective shells and the slide unit B actuated in successive downward operations against the repriming rod 47 to seat the live caps in the respective shells, the turret 55 being lowered and indexed between successive repriming operations.

The turret B is then indexed to bring a resizing tool, carried thereby, to the work axis and the recapped shells, still mounted in turret 55, will be successively raised into working engagement with the resizing tool and thereby resized, the turret 55 being lowered and indexed successively after each resizing operation.

The turret B is then indexed to bring a powder measuring unit, carried thereby, to the work axis and the resized shells are successively raised into communication with the discharged spout of the powder measure device and a measured charge of powder is deposited in each shell, the turret 55 again being lowered and indexed after each recharging operation.

In succeeding stages of operation, the turret B is successively indexed to bring its wadding, shot loading, end wadding and crimping tools successively to the work axis and as each of these tools is successively in operative position, a series of corresponding operations will be performed on the respective shells carried by turret 55 which again is successively lowered and indexed to a new position after each individual operation.

All of the operations referred to above are performed with the linkage G adjusted to the low leverage position shown in FIG. 1. For operations of recapping, resizing, powder charging and bullet attaching operatings on used rifle and pistol cartridge cases, a similar series of operations, with the linkage adjusted position of FIG. 2, but utilizing appropriately different cartridge case holders in turret 55 and reloading tools in turret B, will be utilized. For reloading operations using the low leverage arrangement of FIG. 1, the auxiliary bracing means G are removed by loosening the lock nuts 89, rotating the tie rods to detach the lower end from sockets 87, and then lifting them upwardly through their respective turret holes 32. For bullet swaging operations on such cartridges, the linkage will be adjusted to the high leverage condition shown in FIG. 2, and the auxiliary bracing units G are installed in order to support the turret B against'the higher reaction loads imposed upon it in such swaging operations.

It will now be apparent that the apparatus of this invention can be utilized in performing all phases of reloading of all pistol, revolver, rifle caliber and shot shells of all gages, and can also be used for swaging all sizes of lead and metal bullets with a minimum of effort. The apparatus utilizes a convenient downward stroke with a travel of five inches for all reloading opto the low leverage erations. The long, large V-way slide bearings and the oversized pin bearings of linkage G provide an unusually smooth operation with minimum effort in all reloading and swaging operations. Changeover from reloading to swaging operational adjustment is accomplished with minimum effort.

A feature of the invention is the relatively compact arrangement of pedestal having vertical slideways in its forward side, the tool holding turret mounted on the upper end thereof, the laterally spaced vertical tie rods adjacent the slideways, the shell holder slide including a bracket portion extending forwardly through the spaces between the slideways and the tie rods, and the shell holder turret which is rotatably mounted on the forward end of the bracket and disposed largely forwardly of the tie rods but with its rear portion extending into the space between the tie rods.

The turret 30 is supported jointly by an annular flat bearing shoulder defined by the upper end of turret head 17, extending annularly around the trunnion 18, and by a flat smooth surface on the upper end of the upwardly projecting integral finger on the rear side of the pedestal A, this bearing surface on the upper end of finger 22 supporting the turret against any tendency for its rear side to tilt downwardly in response to upward thrust against the forward side of the turret in a working operation.

I claim:

1. In a shell reloading press, in combination: a pedestal having at its forward side a pair of opposed vertical ways, having a base at its lower end, and having at its upper end a turret mounting head providing an upwardly facing horizontal bearing shoulder and including a bearing trunnion projecting upwardly therefrom; a shell holder slide vertically slidable in said ways, said slide having means for holding an upwardly facing shell or cartridge case to be reloaded on a vertical work axis; a tool-mounting turret rotatably mounted on said trunnion in a horizontal plane, resting upon said bearing shoulder, and having a plurality of circumferentially spaced vertical tool-holding holes disposed at a common radius from its axis of rotation, such as to align said holes in coaxial relation to said work axis; primary end-thrust-bearing means for said turret comprising a bearing cap anchored to the upper end of said trunnion and having a downwardly facing end bearing surface closely adjacent said turret to receive upward thrust loads transmitted by said turret; and readily removable and replaceable supplementary end-thrust bracing means comprising a pair of tie rods disposed on laterally spaced vertical axes, defining between them a space through which said slide extends for vertically sliding movement therein, said tie rods each having at its lower end means for detachably coupling the same to said pedestal and having at its upper end means for downward support of said turret to additionally brace the same against said upward thrust load, said base having, for attachment to said coupling means on the lower ends of the tie rods, coacting coupling means disposed in coaxial relation to the pair of turret holes which are located on respective sides of and adjacent the turret hole that is aligned with the work axis, said tie rods extending through said pair of holes and executing their bracing functions in laterally embracing adjacent relation to the work axis.

2. A reloading press as defined in claim 1, wherein said coupling means comprises a pair of internally threaded sockets integral with and extending upwardly from the forward portion of said base on respective sides of said work axis, and wherein the coupling means of said tie rods comprises threaded lower ends thereof adapted to be threaded into the respective sockets.

3. A shell reloading press as defined in claim 1, wherein said pedestal has a forwardly opening central recess defined between its said laterally spaced coupling means, said pedestal further having an elongated space defined between its said ways and extending upwardly from said central recess; said press further including actuator mechanism comprising a bell crank mounted in said central recess and having respective forwardly and rearwardly projecting lever arms, and a connecting link pivoted at its lower end to said rearwardly extending lever arm and at its upper end to said shell holder slide, said connecting link being disposed in said space between said ways.

4. In a shell reloading press, in combination: a pedestal having at its forward side a pair of opposed vertical ways, having a base at its lower end, and having at its upper end a turret mounting head providing an upwardly facing horizontal bearing shoulder and including a bearing trunnion projecting upwardly therefrom; a shell holder slide vertically slidable in said ways, said slide having means for holding an upwardly facing shell or cartridge case to be reloaded on a vertical work axis; a tool-mounting turret rotatably mounted on said trunnion in a horizontal plane, resting upon said bearing shoulder, and having a plurality of circumferentially spaced vertical tool-holding holes disposed at a common radius from its axis of rotation, such as to align said holes in coaxial relation to said work axis; primary end-thrust bearing means for said turret comprising a bearing cap anchored to the upper end of said trunnion and having a downwardly facing end bearing surface closely adjacent said turret to receive upward thrust loads transmitted by said turret; and readily removable and replaceable supplementary end-thrust bracing means comprising a pair of tie rods disposed on laterally spaced vertical axes, defining between them a space through which said slide extends, for vertically sliding movement therein, said tie rods each having at its lower end means for detachably coupling the same to said pedestal and having at its upper end means for downward support of said turret to additionally brace the same against said upward thrust load, said base having, for attachment to said coupling means on the lower ends of the tie rods, coacting coupling means, disposed in coaxial relation to the pair of turret holes which are located on respective sides of and adjacent the turret hole that is aligned with the work axis, said tie rods extending through said pair of holes and executing their bracing functions in laterally embracing adjacent relation to the work axis, said shell holder slide including a heel portion slidably mounted in said ways, a bracket portion projecting forwardly from said heel portion between said tie rods, and a shell holding turret rotatably mounted upon the forward end of said bracket portion and located largely forwardly of said tie rods in eccentric relation to the axis of the tool-mounting turret, with its rear extremity projecting into the space between said tie rods.

5. In a shell reloading press, in combination: a pedestal having at its forward side a pair of opposed vertical ways; a shell holder slide vertically slidable in said ways, said slide having means for holding a shell or cartridge to be reloaded on a vertical work axis; a primer rod support having a heel comprising respective side portions fitted in and secured to said ways below said slide and having means for holding a primer rod on said work axis, said primer rod support heel portion comprising laterally spaced furcations having terminal wings fitted in said ways and defining a central vertical slot; said primer rod support further including a bracket portion integrally joining said furcations and projecting forwardly therefrom; a primer rod supporting turret mounted on the forward end of said bracket portion for indexing rotation on a vertical axis in eccentric relation to the axis of said tool rnounting turret and having a plurality of circumferentially spaced primer rod supporting means; said pedestal having in its lower region a forwardly opening central recess and an elongated space extending upwardly therefrom between said ways; actuator mechanism comprising a bell crank fulcrumed on a horizontal transverse axis in said central recess and having an arm projecting rearwardly into the recess, and a connecting link pivoted at its lower end to said bell crank arm within the recess, extending upwardly in said elongated space and linked at its upper end to said slide, said connecting link extending between said terminal wings in said central vertical slot; said shell holder slide including a heel portion provided with laterally extending wings slidably received in the respective ways, clamp screws threaded through said Ways and securing the terminal wings of said primer rod support in a selected position of adjustment, a bracket projecting forwardly from said shell holder slide heel portion, and a shell holder turret mounted on the forward end of said bracket on the upper side thereof for indexing rotation, said turret having a plurality of circumferentially spaced means for attachment of shot shell holders and bullet cartridge 10 holders on a common radius such as to provide for alignment of said holders with said work axis by indexing rotation of said shell holder turret.

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