Original Item: Only One Available. Genuine USGI Browning Belt Loading Machine (Model of 1918). All steel construction, complete with the vertical feed chute and wood transit chest measuring 12 1/2" x 8 1/2" x 6 1/2". The feed chute or cartridge guide is the part that installs on top of the machine that the rounds are dropped into. Appears to be complete and functional, however, we have not tested it. Condition overall is very good, shows age, but more from storage than use. The leather handle is a replacement and the original is included but broken. Top of loader reads:

BROWNING
BELT FILLING MACHINE
MODEL OF 1918

Normally, the inside lid of the wood transit chest would have an instruction label, however this one is missing it. We transcribed one that was present on a previous sold example and can be read below:

This machine is for the rapid charging of the belts, and is intended to be fastened to a table or bench while in use.

Fasten the machine to a table or bench, and turn the crank to the right until it is straight down.

Release the tension spring hook and raise the upper feed wheel as far as it will go.
Turn the belt-guide cover to the right far enough to admit the belt guide and raise the upper needle bar as far as it will go.

There is a black thread running on the right side of the belt which indicates the side for the entrance of the cartridge. Put two cartridges by hand into the two loops of the belt nearest the end with the brass tip and place the belt in the machine with the first cartridge resting in the top groove of the lower feed wheel and the belt passing out at the back through the belt guide.

Return the belt-guide cover to place over the feed belt being careful to see that the belt is free to pass over and lower the needle bar.

Turn the upper feed wheel down upon the belt and secure the tension spring under the hook.

Fill the feed guide with cartridges by stripping ten at a time from the paper boxes in which they are packed.

Turn the crank to the right and the cartridges will be fed into the belt ready for use in the gun.

Place a feed box ready to receive the filled belt and at such a height that not more than two feet of the filled belt will be suspended from the feed wheel of the machine.

PRECAUTIONS

Before beginning to use the machine, see that it is well oiled and the needles are properly set. The needles should be so placed as to have their points even (in the same vertical line), and about 1/100 of an inch apart.

In case of a miss in charging the belt, stop and open up the machine and remove the belt. Turn the crank to the right until straight as in starting, and replace the belt in machine with the next to the last cartridge in the top groove of the lower feed wheel. Close the machine and proceed as before.

A great example that comes more than ready for further research and display.