Patents by Inventor Maurice V. Bourlet

Maurice V. Bourlet 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: 4420899
    Abstract: A combined function mechanism for an automatic pistol including a magazine and a magazine housing, which mechanism interrupts the kinematic chain between the trigger and the hammer when the magazine is not fully engaged within its housing, thereby preventing operation of the hammer by the trigger, the mechanism also serving to eject the magazine from the housing when the magazine locking/unlocking device is actuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1983
    Assignee: Fabrique Nationale Herstal
    Inventors: Maurice V. Bourlet, Jean-Pierre H. Storder
  • Patent number: 4336742
    Abstract: Loader for a machine-pistol or the like, characterized in that it comprises substantially a prismatic tube closed at both ends and having, in the central portion of one of its longitudinal walls, a loading-feeding port, two symmetrical conveying devices being provided within the said tube and bearing each on an end wall of the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1982
    Assignee: Fabrique Nationale Herstal
    Inventor: Maurice V. Bourlet
  • Patent number: 4312263
    Abstract: Improved pistol of the type comprising a body carrying a moving slideway supporting a barrel and a firing-pin, the device actuating the said firing-pin consisting of a kinematic chain comprising a detent pivoting on the body, levers driving a sear and a hammer pivoting on the body, said hammer being subjected to the action of a spring and controlled by the sear, characterized in that the hammer is mounted coaxially with at least one ring having two stops for the hammer, the ring having a notch engageable by the said sear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1982
    Assignee: Fabrique Nationale Herstal, en abrege F.N.
    Inventor: Maurice V. Bourlet
  • Patent number: 4303015
    Abstract: Pre-fragmented explosive shell, of the type substantially comprising a head and a body containing an explosive charge, a plurality of balls being housed in an annular space provided for between at least a part of the wall of the aforesaid body and the aforesaid explosive charge, in which each of the aforesaid balls consists of a core made from tungsten or tungsten carbide coated with a thin layer of zirconium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1981
    Assignee: Fabrique Nationale Herstal, en abrege F.N.
    Inventor: Maurice V. Bourlet
  • Patent number: 4145831
    Abstract: Closing device for the slot through which passes the cocking lever of automatic weapons, the slot being provided in the casing of the latter, characterized by the fact that it is mainly made up of: a shaped flap provided with a cut-out portion at each of its ends; two posts which are integral with the casing and pass through each of aforesaid cut-out portions; and a spring hooked by its ends onto aforesaid posts and attached in its center to aforesaid flap, so as to press the latter against the casing and to stress it towards its closing position of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1979
    Assignee: Fabrique Nationale Herstal en abrege FN, Societe Anonyme
    Inventor: Maurice V. Bourlet
  • Patent number: 4142443
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a visual checking device for machine guns and similar weapons, characterized by the fact that it is made up of a lever or toggle lever, permanently stressed by a return spring in the direction of the location of the successive rounds of the supply belt, in such a manner that aforesaid lever or toggle lever can take up two positions, respectively an upper position when it makes contact with a cartridge, and a lower position when no cartridge is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1979
    Assignee: Fabriqe Nationale Herstal S.A.
    Inventor: Maurice V. Bourlet
  • Patent number: 4112817
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a device for supplying portable arms by means of cartridge belts and by means of rifle magazines using the same ammunition, characterized by the fact that the weapon is provided with a lateral opening, extended by a sleeve which can serve the purpose of guide for a magazine, aforesaid sleeve being fitted with a flap which is conditioned in such a manner that it can close aforesaid sleeve and be used as guide for the cartridge belt, the bolt having two tenons, one of which is used to act upon the cartridges of a belt, one by one, and the other operating to act, one by one, upon the cartridges of a magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Assignee: Fabrique Nationale Herstal S.A. en abrege FN
    Inventor: Maurice V. Bourlet
  • Patent number: 3982676
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a device for packing and handling cartridge magazines or suchlike, characterized by the fact that it mainly consists of a straight portion of some strong section of which the two longitudinal edges are bent over in U-shape; one of the ends of the section being provided with a retractable flap in one sense, and the other end being foreseen with a hinged handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1974
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1976
    Assignee: Fabrique Nationale Herstal S.A.
    Inventor: Maurice V. Bourlet
  • Patent number: 3974739
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a belt ammunition box for portable weapons of overall prismatic shape, characterized by the fact that its front face consists of a tightly closing door which, together with a cut away portion of the upper surface of the box, bounds a passage for the belt of cartridges, aforesaid passage being, at the start, closed by a closing element made up of a platelet and a dummy link associated with one of the ends of aforesaid belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1974
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1976
    Assignee: Fabrique Nationale Herstal S.A.
    Inventor: Maurice V. Bourlet