Rotary bullet feeder and toolhead assemblies for use with commercially
available progressive cartridge reloading machines automatically supply
correctly-oriented bullets to a bullet seating die position thereof. The
rotary bullet feeder assembly randomly collects hoppered bullets in a
desired orientation in a multiplicity of bullet pockets formed along the
peripheral edge of a rotating bullet feed ring. An arcuate bullet wall
prevents gravitational release of the bullets contained in the bullet
pockets until each of the bullet pockets, in turn, reaches the apex point
along its circular route of travel, at which point an opening in the
bullet wall allows a bullet to fall into a bullet guide for gravitational
descent to a toolhead assembly. The toolhead assembly includes a toolhead
plate for receiving the rotary bullet feeder assembly and a flat circular
bullet feedwheel mounted for rotation on the underside of the toolhead
plate. The bullet feedwheel includes a plurality of bullet feed holes
equidistantly arranged in a circle proximate the peripheral edge of the
bullet feedwheel. An indexing mechanism, positioned beneath the bullet
feedwheel, serves to incrementally rotate or index the bullet feedwheel
in response to each user actuation of the handle of the cartridge
reloading machine. Each incremental indexing rotation of the bullet
feedwheel serves to sequentially advance each bullet feed hole containing
a bullet received from the rotary bullet feeder assembly into alignment
with a conventional seating die positioned in the toolhead plate.