Patents Examined by Gabriel Klein
  • Patent number: 9714805
    Abstract: A compact silencer device for a firearm comprising of multiple chambers which trap the gases from a projectile exiting the barrel of a gun to slow down the gases and reduce the temperature, sound, and flash associated with the projectile. In one embodiment, the first chamber which attaches to the barrel of the firearm comprises of sound baffling materials or gas porting baffles which vent gases from the second chamber passing rearward. The second chamber comprises of a chamber which can accommodate a retractable third chamber of the device, the second and third chamber of the device can have sound baffles to slow down the gases from the projectile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Inventor: Michael Lau
  • Patent number: 9689633
    Abstract: A magazine loader include a main body, a rounds recess, and a magazine recess. A plurality of rounds are provided to the rounds recess and positionally maintained by a rounds recess bottom, first and second rounds recess ledges, and first and second rounds recess sides. With a magazine positioned within the magazine recess and the rounds within the rounds recess, as the rounds are slidably moved towards the magazine recess, pivot points of each round successively abuts a downwardly angled portion of the second rounds recess side and pivots to angle a second round end of each round towards the magazine and over another downwardly angled portion of the first rounds recess side, so that each round successively enters the magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Inventor: Christopher Andrew Plate
  • Patent number: 9651324
    Abstract: Embodiments of a magazine 10 for storing cartridges 30 for use with a firearm are disclosed. The magazine 10 may include a stack divider 50 that creates at least two spaces for stacks of cartridges 30. The magazine 10 may also include feed lips 40 that have an entry point 41 sized to allow the cartridges to be loaded with a single straight-in motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: OUTLANDER LLC
    Inventors: Steve Hayes, Roy Chester
  • Patent number: 9651323
    Abstract: A telescopic recoil system for a firearm having a receiver and a bolt carrier includes a recoil system base, an axle fixed to the base, a central buffer tube slidably mounted on the axle, an axle buffer spring between the base and central buffer tube, biasing the central buffer tube away from the base, an outer tube slidably mounted on a forward portion of the central buffer tube, a spring buffer tube slidably mounted on a rearward portion of the central buffer tube, a rear buffer spring between the base and spring buffer tube, biasing the spring buffer tube away from the base, a central spring between the spring buffer tube and outer tube, biasing the outer tube away from the spring buffer tube and away from the base and an exchangeable spring between the outer tube and the bolt carrier, biasing the outer tube away from the bolt carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Inventor: Dimitrios Mantas
  • Patent number: 9651329
    Abstract: The invention relates to a trigger device for a semi-automatic handgun, including a locking element swivel-mounted around a first axis and acting on a trigger element via a locking face, and a shot limitation device, which has a control element with locking or control faces defining at least two locking positions for a pawl swivel-mounted around a second axis. To allow limited and precisely metered firing for rapid-fire sequences, it is provided that the control element is formed by a sear arranged in the path of action between a trigger and the trigger element, which acts on the trigger element through the locking element and the pawl swivel-mounted on the locking element around the second axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Inventor: Karl Hittmann
  • Patent number: 9644909
    Abstract: Disclosed is a firearm configuration for a handgun. The firearm configuration is designed to reduce the recoil forces encountered by a user upon firing the weapon. It further includes a recoil plate that absorbs forces generated by the slide during firing. Recoil forces are reduced by lowering the firearm's center of mass and by aligning a recoiling mass with the user's arm and trigger finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Inventor: William A. Hangen
  • Patent number: 9638501
    Abstract: A projectile includes an ordnance portion configured to impact a target and a communication apparatus positioned rearward of the ordnance portion. The projectile is configured to rotate about and travel along a longitudinal axis after launch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Inventors: William P. Parker, Thomas F. A. Bibby
  • Patent number: 9625227
    Abstract: A firing mechanism for a firearm is provided for reducing maximum trigger pull weight attributable to a sear and for reducing trigger pre-travel and over-travel distances. By this, the likelihood of sear flutter phenomena is greatly reduced while also decreasing or maintaining maximum trigger pull weight. Also, hand movement during firing is reduced helping to increase accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Apex Tactical Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: Randall M. Lee
  • Patent number: 9625233
    Abstract: A rubber panel attachable to a rail system of a firearm is disclosed herein. The rubber panel may include an elongated body comprising a first side, a second side, an upper edge, a lower edge, a first end, and a second end. The rubber panel also may include a gripping surface disposed on the first side of the elongated body. Moreover, the rubber panel may include at least one attachment protrusion disposed on the second side of the elongated body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Daniel Defense, Inc.
    Inventors: Marvin C. Daniel, Larry J R Jones
  • Patent number: 9618286
    Abstract: An ammunition magazine loader include a main body, a rounds recess, a rounds abutment, and a magazine recess. One or more rounds are provided to the rounds recess and positionally maintained by a rounds recess bottom and first and second rounds recess ledges. With a magazine positioned within the magazine recess and at least one round within the rounds recess, as the at least one round is slidably moved out of the rounds recess, the at least one round abuts the rounds abutment and pivots to orient the round such that each second case end is angled towards the magazine recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Inventor: Christopher Andrew Plate
  • Patent number: 9618310
    Abstract: A method of blasting plural layers of material in a blastfield that reduces the amount of mechanical excavation required to expose a lower layer of material. The method includes using rows of equally spaced blastholes that pass through all of the layers and additional intermediate rows of blastholes that pass down only through the top layer. Each blasthole is capped with stemming material and includes one or more decks of explosive material and detonators, which air decks or inert stemming separating adjacent explosive decks. The detonators in layer are detonated first in order from row rearwards to throw a substantial amount of the blast material from the layer forwardly of free face onto the floor. In the same blasting cycle and within seconds of the throw blast, explosives materials in layers are detonated in a stand-up blast in which material in layers are broken up but otherwise are minimally displace or thrown forwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Orica Explosives Technology Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Geoffrey Frederick Brent, Tapan Goswami
  • Patent number: 9612071
    Abstract: A loading apparatus and method for use with a firearm, which may be most suited for use with a bolt-action rifle having an internal magazine. The loading apparatus comprises an arcuate shaped body having a coextensive track, flap member, and access slot, and a guidance element, all of which combine to provide an apparatus that increases the ease and speed of loading the firearm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: BOLT ACTION CONCEPTS, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Berte, Joshua Martinez
  • Patent number: 9605929
    Abstract: A bullet shield is configured to deflect bullets. The bullet shield includes a first panel, attached to a first panel upper hinge and a first panel lower hinge. A second panel is immediately adjacent to the first panel forming a first panel seam therebetween. The second panel is attached to a second panel upper hinge and a second panel lower hinge. An upper second panel support reinforcement, attached to the first panel and the second panel covering all of the first panel seam. A second panel support reinforcement is attached to the second panel. A first panel secondary support reinforcement is attached to the upper second panel support reinforcement and the second panel support reinforcement. Bullets fired at the bullet shield are deflected from the bullet shield to protect a user behind the bullet shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Inventor: Toni Bill Handley
  • Patent number: 9599430
    Abstract: A free-floating firearm handguard having vertically offset mounting fasteners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: WHG Properties, LLC
    Inventor: William H. Geissele
  • Patent number: 9593896
    Abstract: An expandable linear explosive shape charge positioner for severing tubular members whereby a plurality of arc-shaped charge chambers are positioned along the same plane and adjacent to the interior walls of the tubular members and detonated to sever the tubular members. The invention is placed within a tubular member and includes a remotely extendible framework having remotely detonable linear explosive shape charges enclosed therein. When in the collapsed position, the apparatus passes through constrictions within the tubular members. When extended, the framework is positioned transversely to the axis of the tubular member with the shape charges positioned adjacent the interior walls thereof. Shape charge chambers with angled ends are presented to provide overlap when the device is fully extended to better ensure complete separation of the tubular member at the discontinuities of the shape charges about the plane of severance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Inventor: Scott McRee
  • Patent number: 9593901
    Abstract: A rifle support that is used in a vertical axis to support a weapon when being fired. The support is flexible and allows the user to rest the support on their knee while resting the weapon on the rest. The flexible support allows the user to flex the support in any direction without moving the weapon from the rest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Inventor: Timothy Joseph Reed
  • Patent number: 9587910
    Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosed invention relate to fiber optic weapon sights that use a reflector to direct ambient light to a fiber optic rod and thus provide weapon sights that are bright in any lighting condition. In one instance, the reflector can have a concave shape, such as a spherical or parabolic shape, that can focus ambient light on the fiber optic rod and thereby significantly increase the brightness of the weapon sight. The embodiments of the present invention can accordingly provide enhanced fiber optic front and/or rear sights for weapons including rifles, pistols, and shotguns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Inventor: Jason Stewart Jackson
  • Patent number: 9581417
    Abstract: A net throwing device is disguised as a security camera and includes a casing including a front chamber, inclined tubes around the front chamber, a rear inner tube having an aperture member, and a rear outer tube having an aperture element; an air canister fastened in the inner tube; a spring biased piercing member slidably disposed between the front chamber and the air canister; a spring biased lock pin in the piercing member and having an end disposed in the aperture member to lock the piercing member in a locked position; a spring biased rod member through the aperture element; a cam member engaging the rod member; an external antenna; a receiver; a processor electrically connected to the receiver; an electric motor electrically connected to the processor; and a net received in the front chamber and including edge weights in the tubes respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Inventor: Jui-Fu Tseng
  • Patent number: 9581415
    Abstract: A ballistic effect compensating reticle (e.g., 200 or 300) and aim compensation method for rifle sights or projectile weapon aiming systems includes a multiple point elevation and windage aim point field (e.g., 150 or 350) including a primary aiming mark (e.g., 158 or 358) indicating a primary aiming point adapted to be sighted-in at a first selected range and a plurality of secondary aiming points arrayed beneath the primary aiming mark. The method for compensating for a projectile's ballistic behavior while developing a field expedient firing solution permits the shooter to express the field expedient firing solution in units of distance, (e.g., yards or meters, when describing or estimating range and nominal air density ballistic characteristics), and velocity (e.g., mph or kph, for windage hold points).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Inventor: G. David Tubb
  • Patent number: 9574852
    Abstract: A mount for attaching an accessory to a firearm that has a mounting rail and a scope with an objective lens. The mount includes a body with a passageway defined by a perimeter. The passageway configured to receive the objective lens within the perimeter while the scope is secured to the firearm. The mount also includes a fastener block to releasably secure the body over a location along the mounting rail. The fastener block is secured to the mount body. The mount also includes an accessory mounting rail supported by the body. The accessory mounting rail supports the accessory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: WHG Properties, LLC
    Inventors: Neal McKillips, William H. Geissele