Patents Examined by Derrick R Morgan
  • Shell reloader device
    Patent number: 11353306
    Abstract: A shell reloader device simultaneously performs multiple steps to allow reloading of a plurality of ammunition shells in a reduced time. The shell reloader device includes a press including a fixed section, a linkage, and a handle pivotally coupled to the fixed section. The handle is coupled to the linkage wherein the linkage is moved relative to the fixed section by operation of the handle. A compressor is operationally coupled to the press such that the compressor provides compression to each of a plurality of stations when the handle is operated. Each of the stations holds a respective shell in a position to be acted upon by the compressor for respective associated steps in reloading each shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Inventor: Dennis Bach
  • Sound suppressor
    Patent number: 11353277
    Abstract: Noise suppressors for firearms are disclosed, having a cylindrical body extending along a longitudinal direction, a chamber having an annular cylindrical shape, and a suppression core in the chamber. The chamber has an outer diameter defined by an inner surface of the body, an inner diameter forming a center bore, and a length along the longitudinal direction. The suppression core has a triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) structure. A wall thickness or unit cell size of the TPMS structure may vary along longitudinal or radial directions. The suppression core may have an inner portion and an outer portion, where at a transition between the inner and outer portions, a plurality of first openings in the inner portion and a plurality of second openings in the outer portion have a parameter that matches in size with each other, and the first and second openings are approximately aligned with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Battle Born Supply Co.
    Inventors: Ian Muceus, Adam Stempeck
  • Low friction inserts for bolt carrier group
    Patent number: 11353275
    Abstract: A bolt carrier group assembly for a firearm includes at least one metallic bolt carrier group component with an outer metallic surface and at least one insert with an outer surface. The outer surface is at least flush with the outer metallic surface, and the at least one insert has a lower coefficient of friction compared to the at least one metallic bolt carrier group component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Inventors: James Matthew Underwood, Larry Cullen Underwood
  • Recoilless apparatus for guns
    Patent number: 11346621
    Abstract: The invention relates to a recoilless apparatus for firing conventional cartridge-based ammunitions comprising a gun barrel and a compensating mass launch tube wherein a projectile is accelerated in one direction inside said gun barrel counterbalanced by a compensating mass accelerated in the opposite direction inside said launch tube thereby minimizing recoil and further providing means of automatic ammunition handling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Inventor: Zhisong Huang
  • Suppressor with blowout panel
    Patent number: 11326850
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a firearms suppressor adapted with blowout panels. In one example, the blowout panels may be configured to have a lower tolerance for pressure than the materials from which outer components of the suppressor are formed. During over pressure events of the suppressor, the blowout panels may rupture, thereby dissipating pressure in the suppressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Delta P Design, Inc.
    Inventor: Byron S. Petersen
  • Magazine of a pistol for cartridges with a case rim, and pistol having such a magazine
    Patent number: 11306985
    Abstract: A magazine of a pistol for cartridges with a case rim, having a hollow magazine body for accommodating the cartridges in two vertically offset rows, a base plate, a feeder, which is guided in a displaceable manner in the magazine body, and a compression spring between the feeder and the base plate, wherein the upper end region of the magazine body forms a narrowing, in which the two rows of cartridges are guided together to form a single row. In order to ensure a reliable feed of the cartridges despite the case rim, in the longitudinal center the side walls have inwardly directed beads which run over the entire height of the side walls and merge, in the upper region, into converging guide ribs, and the feeder forms a bearing surface, which is convex in the longitudinal direction and on which a cartridge located thereon can alter its angle of inclination in relation to the horizontal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Taurus Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Wilhelm Bubits
  • Ballistic barrel cleaning cartridge
    Patent number: 11293726
    Abstract: An apparatus including a ballistic barrel cleaning cartridge is provided. The apparatus includes a casing including a casing recess. The casing recess is closed at a first end of the casing. The apparatus further includes a propellant disposed within the casing recess and an abrasive-binding agent composite slug constructed with an abrasive agent and a polymerized binding agent. The abrasive-binding agent composite slug is disposed within the casing recess at a second end of the casing. Expansion of the propellant is operable to expel the abrasive-binding agent composite slug from the casing recess and propel the abrasive-binding agent composite slug down a bore of a firearm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Midwest Outdoor Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: John Biafore, Jr.
  • Adjustable firearm gas block
    Patent number: 11287201
    Abstract: An adjustable gas block may include an ingress port to receive gas expelled from a gas port located on a firearm barrel, and a front end to receive a gas metering screw, wherein the gas metering screw is drivable into a threaded hole in the front end to at least partially cover the ingress port with an end of the gas metering screw to restrict a flow of the gas, according to various embodiments. In some embodiments, a columnar sidewall of the head of the gas metering screw may include a circumferential marking alignable with an alignment feature of the front end of the adjustable firearm gas block to set a predefined gas flow restriction. In some embodiments, the adjustable gas block may include a columnar projection with a section alignable with an individual one of the indentations or bumps to preserve a rotational position of the gas metering screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: AXTS INC
    Inventor: Joshua A. Underwood
  • Training cartridge with day/night/thermal visible signature
    Patent number: 11287236
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to ammunition rounds for training purposes. Specifically, the training munitions disclosed herein contain special properties rendering them visible by day, by night and through the use of thermal imagery while maintaining safety protocols and otherwise normal usage properties without requiring the outer shell to deform or destruct to initiate the signal properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Inventors: Frank Dindl, Kenneth R Jones
  • Inertial decoupler for firearm sound suppressor
    Patent number: 11287207
    Abstract: An inertial decoupler and suppressor assembly, associated components, and associated methods. The inertial decoupler is adjustable to change a preload of a spring biasing a piston toward an at-rest position and/or to change a permitted travel distance of the piston away from the at-rest position. The inertial decoupler can be removable from the suppressor and usable with other suppressors, or can be integrated with a dedicated suppressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Smith & Wesson Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph DeJessa
  • Barrel stabilizing and recoil reducing muzzle brake with guiding ribs
    Patent number: 11280572
    Abstract: A muzzle brake for high power rifles, hand guns, machine guns, and artillery, exhibiting barrel stabilization and recoil reduction, by capturing gasses against an orifice end plate and redirecting these gases both out of the muzzle brake, and into the muzzle brake to fill the partial vacuum left by the exiting high pressure gases, by way of Major truncated socket forms, and to a lesser extent, with the use of Minor truncated socket forms, and their associated vent ports in an asymmetrical pattern that balances barrel lift, and recoil against the expected and recovered gases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Inventor: James Norman Griffitts
  • Modular weapon foregrip
    Patent number: 11274901
    Abstract: The weapon foregrip uses a modular design that includes a grip base and interchangeable angled grip attachments. The interchangeable angle grip attachments have bottom grip faces with differing grip angles, which allows the configuration of the foregrip to be selectively adapted for the particular user and weapon. The grip base has a grip body and an integral forward extending switch platform, which properly positions a pressure switch under the user's thumb so that an illumination and/or targeting device can be actuated by the user's thumb while maintaining a positive “thumb-forward” grip on the weapon. The foregrip may also have an electronics head, which houses integrated electronic illumination and/or targeting systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Inventor: Joshua K. Burgess
  • Air gun for conventional metal-jacket bullets
    Patent number: 11262156
    Abstract: Air guns and non-firearm guns for conventional metal jacket bullets are provided. Novel chamber and throat geometries, novel barrel rifling schemes, barrel materials, and surface technology facilitate manufacture or retrofit of air guns and other non-firearm guns to use standard size metal jacket bullets manufactured for conventional firearms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Inventors: Carl E Caudle, Nathanel J Caudle, Nakkii White
  • Muzzle adaptation system
    Patent number: 11255624
    Abstract: A muzzle adaptation system facilitates the attachment of adaptors to the muzzle of a firearm. A converter is attached to the muzzle of a firearm using existing features such as threads. The adaptors are secured to the converter by a release device that allows the adaptor to be attached without precise alignment or fasteners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Inventor: Jason McRorey
  • Speed loader for firearm magazines
    Patent number: 11248865
    Abstract: An apparatus for loading cartridges into a firearms magazine includes a loader body comprising a retainer configured for holding a firearms magazine, and cooperating spring-loaded plungers coupled thereto. A first spring-loaded plunger coupled to the loader body is oriented for pushing one or more cartridges into the firearms magazine so as to depress a magazine spring thereof. A second plunger coupled to the loader body is oriented for inserting cartridges into the firearms magazine without further depressing the magazine spring while the first spring-loaded plunger is depressing the magazine spring. A mechanism automatically resets the first spring-loaded plunger after the second plunger completes insertion of each cartridge into the magazine. All of the foregoing moving parts may be manually or motor driven and fed with cartridges via a hopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Inventors: Neal B. Rosenblum, Mark Presser
  • Modular magazine release for firearms
    Patent number: 11248867
    Abstract: A device implementable on a firearm includes a magazine release having a magazine catch and a magazine release button coupled to the magazine catch. When the magazine release is installed on the firearm, the magazine catch is configured to hold a magazine in a magazine well of the firearm when the magazine release button is not pressed and the magazine catch is configured to release the magazine from the magazine well when the magazine release button is pressed. The magazine release button includes a coupler configured to couple the magazine release button to the magazine catch. The magazine release button also includes a detachable pedal slidingly attachable to the coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Strike Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Shanyao Lee, Shih-Ting Hung
  • Ordnance ballistics deployment system
    Patent number: 11248891
    Abstract: An electronics ordnance delivery system that has an electronics component encased within a potting material, which itself is within a housing exoskeleton. A deceleration sleeve receives the exoskeleton, and is designed to shear away during a bullet's entry into a target body such that the electronics component is successfully deployed and remains in the target even if a part of the bullet exits the target. The system also includes an outer jacket that is also designed to shear away. The system can include a core that assists in the deployment of the electronics ordnance within the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Insights International Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Greg Koontz, Evan Parker, Neil Brennan, William Pocan
  • System and method for destructively processing airbag inflators
    Patent number: 11248892
    Abstract: A method is provided for destructively processing an airbag inflator having an outer housing, a propellant housed within the outer housing, and a membrane disposed between the propellant and an inner surface of the outer housing. The method includes rupturing the membrane, exposing the propellant to a liquid, and permitting the propellant to mix with the liquid to form a liquid-propellant mixture. The method may further include removing at least a portion of the liquid from the liquid-propellant mixture to produce an at least partially solidified material that includes the propellant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Clean Water Environmental, LLC
    Inventor: John G. Staton
  • Recoil booster for firearm suppressor
    Patent number: 11243040
    Abstract: A firearm suppressor with a recoil booster may be provided. In one example, the suppressor may include a housing, a back end member coupled to the housing, and a recoil booster coupled to the back end member. The recoil booster may be configured to couple to a firearm. The recoil booster may include a coil spring, a rear cap coupled to the back end member, and a piston configured to slide relative to the rear cap. The rear cap may include a main body at least partially disposed within the back end member and including a first bearing surface to receive a first end of the spring and a flange extending forward from the main body and maintained within an inner circumference of the spring. The piston may include a second bearing surface configured to receive a second end of the spring. Additional embodiments and related methods are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: SureFire, LLC
    Inventors: Karl R. Honigmann, Barry W. Dueck
  • Pistol frame
    Patent number: 11236967
    Abstract: A pistol frame is suitable for mounting of a trigger mechanism which includes a trigger mechanism housing having a through channel. The pistol frame includes an upper frame portion defining a rear receiving space, and a rear rail block disposed in the rear receiving space and including a bottom plate, and two side plates extending upwardly the bottom plate. Each side plate has a through hole suitable for aligning with the through channel to permit extension of a trigger housing pin therethrough to thereby fix the rear rail block and the trigger mechanism housing to the upper frame portion. The bottom plate and the side plates cooperatively define at least one receiving space suitable for receiving the extensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Inventors: Chen-Hung Tai, Hwa-Nung Lee, Yo-Lun Chang