Sentence examples for spent case from inspiring English sources

This magazine was easily loaded by a device called a clip, a light metal openwork box that held five cartridges and fed them up into the chamber through the action of a spring as each spent case was ejected.

The unlocked slide and breechblock continued back, ejecting the spent case and cocking the hammer, until a spring forced them forward while a fresh cartridge was picked up from a seven-round magazine in the grip.

For example, beginning in 1866, Britain converted its P/53 Enfields simply by hinging the top of the breech so that it could be opened sideways, the spent case extracted, and a fresh cartridge inserted.

This unlocked the breechblock from the barrel and allowed it to slide back on its own, extracting and ejecting the spent case, cocking the hammer, and compressing a coiled spring in the rear of the gun.

The latter was a 10-shot repeater that ejected the spent case as the bolt was pulled back and fed a fresh cartridge into the chamber from a tubular magazine beneath the barrel as the bolt was pushed forward.

When fired, the P90 ejects spent cartridge casings downward through a chute located behind the grip, so spent cases are kept out of the shooter's line of sight.

Each barrel was loaded and fired during a half-rotation around the central shaft, and the spent cases were ejected during the second half-rotation.

A small case collector pouch for the P90 is available which fits over the ejection port and collects spent cases as they are ejected downward; the pouch will collect up to one hundred cases before filling.

The spent shell case section was thoroughly ventilated and muzzle brakes were introduced to successfully cure the problem.

It was defined as the observer's time spent per case until proceeding to next case [ 26].

When public money is spent, the case for action is even clearer.