Patents by Inventor Alferd H. Crouch

Alferd H. Crouch has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4285153
    Abstract: A firearm or weapon is disclosed herein having a stock incorporating a plurality of elongated barrels for releasably holding a load or ammunition tube and a hand grip having a trigger mechanism operably coupled to an electronic firing circuit for igniting or detonating the ammunition held in the tube. A sequence control circuit is connected between the firing circuit and the trigger for sequentially and electronically detonating selected ones of a multiplicity of firing chambers within the ammunition tube enclosing powder, wadding and shot respectively. The ammunition is loaded serially in the elongated tube in an end-to-end relationship so that the loaded tube provides a unitary construction and wherein the firing circuit is embedded within the material thereof in fixed spatial relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1981
    Inventor: Alferd H. Crouch