Patents Examined by Stewart Knox
  • Patent number: 7076901
    Abstract: An empty cartridge removing device of a dummy launcher for animal training having a fixed member of a fixed assembly pivotally assembled with a body of a firing assembly, the empty cartridge removing device comprising: a barrel adapted to be coupled with a coupling hole of the fixed member of the fixed assembly and having a guide projection extended therefrom, and an empty cartridge removing assembly for mating with the guide projection of the barrel therein such that a blank cartridge is partially setback from the end of the coupling hole of the barrel. When the cartridge is fired, the cartridge expands to the inside diameter of the coupling hole and the empty cartridge removing assembly. With the empty cartridge partially setback, the mechanical advantage of the empty cartridge removing assembly allows the empty cartridge to be easily removed from the dummy launcher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: D.T. Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Joon S. Kim
  • Patent number: 7077117
    Abstract: A detachable driving assembly for a toy gun has a first casing containing a piston device and a second casing containing a gear set. The first casing and the second casing are detachably combined by a pin and a levering lock. The piston device has a piston body with a spring and a toothed rack formed under the piston body. The gear set mainly comprises a miter gear, a reduction gear and a half-toothed gear sequentially rotated by a motor to drive the piston device. The half-toothed gear has a periphery, multiple teeth partially formed on the periphery, and an idle area formed on a remainder of the periphery. Thereby, when the teeth engage with the toothed rack to run with the half-toothed gear, the piston device is driven to a compressed condition. When the half-toothed gear enters the idle area, the piston device is released to punch a projectile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Inventor: Chen-Tang Chu
  • Patent number: 7065914
    Abstract: A tank mountable stock arm monopod for pneumatic guns or the like has an arm mounting saddle fastened to the compressed gas tank of a pneumatic gun with adjustable stabilizing straps. The arm mounting saddle has a pivotally mounted coupling that connects with the arm mounting saddle and the lower stock arm. The lower stock arm comprising of a cylindrical section that fits into the saddle arm coupling. The sliding upper stock arm is a cylindrical section smaller in diameter than the lower section enabling the sliding section to fit and move inside the stationary section in a telescoping movement, allowing the length of the stock to adjust to the user. A stock arm butt is pivotally mounted to the sliding stock arm opposite the stationary stock arm. The stock arm monopod is put into the monopod position by loosening the stabilization straps and spinning the apparatus 180 degrees so that the stock arm butt is pointing towards the playing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Inventor: William Fredrick Wagner, II
  • Patent number: 7065917
    Abstract: A periscope device specifically adapted to fit in the breach of a firearm. Using a housing equipped with at least a pair of mirrors in parallel relation to one another, a user can look down the barrel of his or her firearm. This is especially useful for checking the barrel for obstructions and for initially bore sighting the firearm when conducting gun sight alignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Inventor: Arne W. Lahti
  • Patent number: 7065913
    Abstract: A muzzle-loading firearm having a barrel and a pivoting firing mechanism. The barrel has a breech plug, a pivoting junction axle. and a blocking axle, and the firing mechanism has a trigger, hammer, striker and notch. The firing mechanism is pivotally attached to the barrel at the pivoting junction axle and the blocking axle is movably aligned in the notch. When the firing mechanism is pivoted, it is guided by the blocking axle in the notch ensuring sufficient clearance between said firing mechanism for easy placement of a percussion cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Blackpowder Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Inigo Lizarralde, Julian Echeberria
  • Patent number: 7063020
    Abstract: A perforating ammunition having a penetration body delimiting an internal cavity closed by a base which penetration body includes a front nose with at least one insert integral with the nose, the insert being a material denser than that of the body and arranged in a housing opening to the outside of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignee: GIAT Industries
    Inventors: Nicolas Eches, Dominique Bouchaud
  • Patent number: 7059316
    Abstract: A paintball shooting structure includes a cartridge in combination with a percussion device to receive multiple paintballs therein and is provided for a paintball gun. When an impact section of a firing pin of the percussion device is struck, the striking force pushes the firing pin to move forward such that the total length from a plug head formed in a front end of the plug to the impact section is shortened. Meanwhile, compressed gas is released out of the cartridge to push the plug to move rearward along an annular section of an outer sheath. Besides, the compressed gas immediately rushes into each paintball feeder in the cartridge so as to shoot each paintball in a respective one of the paintball feeders out of the cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Inventor: Jui-Fu Tseng
  • Patent number: 7051467
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gun trigger for use with a bolt-action gun. The trigger of the present invention has a finger element with an extension and a catch. The catch has a front strap and a rear strap. One or more openings are between the front and rear straps. One or more braces can be across the one or more openings. The trigger also has a head. A socket is formed in the top of the head, and a ball is received within the socket. The height of the ball relative the bottom of the socket can be adjusted. There is practically no friction between the trigger and a sear. The trigger of the present invention may be made by remanufacturing existing conventional triggers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Inventor: John F. Huber
  • Patent number: 7043863
    Abstract: A catcher in combination with a firearm having an ejection port for receiving and retaining expended magnetically attracted shell casings through the ejection port as the firearm is discharged. The catcher includes a hollow housing having a plurality of rigid walls. One of the walls has an opening in communication with the ejection port when the catcher is mounted to the firearm for receiving the shell casings, and at least one of the other walls includes a plurality of deflectors. Each of the deflectors has a front face that is slanted away from the opening such that the deflectors are capable of deflecting the shell casings away from the opening and a rear face that is perpendicular to the planar surface of the housing or slanted away from the opening. Retainers at the rear face of the deflectors are capable of retaining the shell casings when the catcher is in any position. The retainers include a permanent magnetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Inventor: Thomas W. Saur
  • Patent number: 7007607
    Abstract: A hinged explosively formed projectile warhead system eliminates exposure of soldiers to harm in wall breaching operations by providing a lethal mechanism that can be deployed at safe distances, simultaneously breaching a man-sized hole and removing one or more rows of rebar in reinforced concrete structures or barriers. The warhead system employs both a missile system and explosively formed projectile warhead technology delivered to the target from a tube launched platform. A set of warhead arms is attached to the aft end of a missile body by means of a set of hinges. The warhead arms are initially folded against the missile body. After launch of the warhead system, the warhead arms fold away from the missile body. The angle at which the warhead arms are folded from the missile body determines the area of a hole breached by the warhead system in a reinforced concrete target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Richard Fong, William Ng, LaMar Thompson