The prior art is well documented with examples of extraction grip or retrieval devices. The purposes of such devices include their use and application for facilitating the removal of an ammunition holding magazine, such as which is secured to a projectile firing device.
A first example is shown in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,748,689 and 6,883,261, both to Fitzpatrick, and which discloses integral extensions for aiding in the extraction of ammunition magazines from ammunition pouches. The sides of the ammunition magazine are extended, either by molding or affixing a handle directly to the sides of the magazine, to thereby provide a grasping handle.
Other examples include U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,634,131 and 6,212,815, also to Fitzpatrick, and which describes another type of magazine extraction grip including a sleeve of resilient material molded in the general shape of a magazine, however exhibiting a smaller inner circumference than that associated with the magazine to require the band to be stretched over the magazine. The top of the band exhibits a smaller inner circumference than the lower part of the band and extending from the top is a handle for permitting a users finger to wrap there-around to extract the magazine.
Yet further examples of integral magazine extraction extensions are shown in U.S. Pat. Nos. 7,207,131, 7,174,666 and 6,481,136, also to Fitzpatrick. A handle is permanently attached to an existing or modified floor plate of a magazine. In one example, a substitute floor plate is provided with a molded projecting handle. In another, a handle with a grip and a terminal end is provided with an attachment structure thereupon. Existing floor plates can also modified by cutting anchoring holes to allow for attachment of the handles, and without hindering use in an ammunition magazine or molded with the anchoring holes.