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.

Abstract: A gun cleaning apparatus includes a cleaning tool and a storage case. The cleaning tool has a cleaning section and a pull cord having a distal end for pulling the cleaning section through a gun barrel. The storage case is configured for enclosing the cleaning tool. The storage case includes a substantially hollow container defining a rim at opening thereof, and a removable lid positionable between a closed configuration and an open position. The removable lid includes a handle section for gripping by a user to assist with pulling the cleaning tool through the gun barrel in the open configuration and configured to engage the rim in the closed configuration, and a connection section extending from the handle section, the connection section defining an elongated slot and a cavity for securing the distal end of the pull cord therein.

Abstract: Propulsion systems, puncturing devices, and firearm barrel cleaners that use these components to propel cleaning and/or lubricating projectiles down the barrel of a firearm are disclosed, along with related methods of manufacture and use.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising a bore cleaning device operable to clean a bore of a firearm is provided. The apparatus includes a cylindrical cleaning pad including a periphery portion including a radial outer surface of the cylindrical cleaning pad, a center portion including a remainder of the cylindrical cleaning pad contained radially within the periphery portion, and a compression expansion cut disposed in the center portion and extending from a first flat end of the cylindrical cleaning pad to a center of the cylindrical cleaning pad. The apparatus further includes a propellant located in a bore-rearward position of the cylindrical cleaning pad providing a force to push the cleaning pad down the bore of the firearm and a payload located in a bore-forward position of the cylindrical cleaning pad.

Abstract: A bore cleaning device is configured to clean a bore of a firearm. The device includes a propellant providing a force to push the projectile down the bore of the firearm, a cup comprising at least one hole in a bottom surface of the cup, a dense material within the cup, wherein the dense material is configured to deform and press radially outwardly against the cup as the propellant provides propelling force to the dense material. The device further includes a bore rearward charge cap and a frame. The frame includes a bore forward plate located within the cup, a frame leg connecting the bore rearward charge cap and the bore forward plate and passing through the hole in the bottom surface of the cup.

Abstract: A bore cleaning device is configured to clean a bore of a firearm. The device includes a cylindrically shaped cleaning pad including a solid, non-hollow core. The device further includes a propellant providing a force to push the cleaning pad down the bore of the firearm and a payload located in a bore-forward position of the cleaning pad. The device can optionally include a lower charge cap situated between the propellant and the cleaning pad.

Abstract: Propulsion systems, puncturing devices, and firearm barrel cleaners that use these components to propel cleaning and/or lubricating projectiles down the barrel of a firearm are disclosed, along with related methods of manufacture and use.

Abstract: A bore cleaning device includes a propellant, a gas seal situated proximate to the propellant, a bore rearward disk, a fibrous cup, and a bore forward disk. The bore forward disk is configured to press against a bottom surface of the fibrous cup, wherein the bore forward disk is narrower than a diameter of a bore of a firearm such that a gap exists around a circumference of the bore forward disk between the bore forward disk and the bore of the firearm. The gap is configured to enable the cup to deform into the gap. The device further includes a cylindrically shaped stack of cleaning materials between the bore rearward disk and the bore forward disk, wherein the stack of cleaning materials is configured to longitudinally transmit at least a portion of the force from the bore rearward disk to the bore forward disk.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed including a bore cleaning device configured to clean a bore of a firearm. The device includes a propellant providing a force to push the projectile down the bore of the firearm, a fibrous cup, a dense material within the fibrous cup, and a frame including a bore forward disk configured to press against a bottom surface of the fibrous cup. The dense material includes one of a dense granulated material and a dense, viscous paste. The dense material is configured to deform and press radially outwardly against the cup as the propellant provides propelling force to the dense material.

Abstract: A bore cleaning projectile cleans a bore of a firearm as the projectile is propelled down the bore. The projectile includes a frame including a lower charge cap, a tapered cone-shaped center shaft portion, and an end cap. The projectile further includes a propellant providing a force to push the device down the bore of the firearm and at least one cleaning agent situated around the tapered cone-shaped center shaft portion. The center shaft portion includes a narrower diameter at a longitudinally forward portion of the center shaft portion and a wider diameter at a longitudinally rearward portion of the center shaft portion. The cleaning agent is forced to move along the center shaft portion toward the longitudinally rearward portion of the center shaft portion as the frame is propelled down the bore. This movement along the center shaft portion causes intimate contact between the cleaning agent and the bore.

Abstract: A bore cleaning device is disclosed including a propellant providing a force to push the projectile down the bore of the firearm, a frame including a plurality of collapsible legs, and a cylindrically-shaped cleaning agent installed around the legs. The frame further includes a lower charge cap configured to receive the force of the propellant and a rigid front end cap. The provided force creates a crushing force upon the frame. The crushing force causes the legs to collapse and provide an outward force upon the cleaning agent, wherein the outward force causes intimate contact between the cleaning agent and the bore as the device travels along the bore.

Abstract: Ammunition, consisting generally of a casing, propellant, projectile and primer, is entirely coated with a coating that renders the ammunition resistant to infiltration by moisture or deleterious matter, such as sand or salt, that have the effect of fouling the propellant or otherwise causing the ammunition to misfire or not fire properly. Methods of making ammunition in accordance with the invention are described.

Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method includes driving a piston by mechanically harnessing an explosion of energetic material contained in a cartridge. The method further includes releasing cleanser contained in the cartridge in response to the explosion of the energetic material.

Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method includes driving a piston by mechanically harnessing an explosion of energetic material contained in a cartridge. The method further includes releasing cleanser contained in the cartridge in response to the explosion of the energetic material.

Abstract: A bullet for cleaning/scouring the interior surface of a gun barrel including a jacket section on a rear end and joined to a projectile section on the other end forming a chamber containing a cleaning liquid. An array of brushes is positioned on the outside surface of the forward wall of the projectile section. An explosive cake is positioned against the rear end of the jacket section. A piston disk is positioned against the cake. When the cake is detonated, the disk first expels fluid from the chamber and against the interior wall of the barrel. Then the disk forces the forward wall to spread out so that the brushes on the forward wall come into contact with the interior surface of the gun barrel.

Abstract: The present gun barrel cleaning device provides a special cartridge with a casing filled with a carbon dioxide charge which forwardly propels a push pin having a sliding seal near the firing pin and a two-pieced break-away seal at the opposite end, which separates to push a cloth rag and metal brush through the bore when the cartridge is loaded into the gun and the gun is fired.

Abstract: A Shotgun Cleaning Shell for cleaning the bore of a shotgun, wherein the shell comprises: a cylindrical shell case, a head connected to an end of the case, a seal connected to the other end of the case, a bead contained within the case, a cord wherein an end of the cord is connected to the bead, at least one cleaning member connected to the cord, a squeegee connected to the other end of the cord, a tubular member connected to the squeegee and wherein the bead is contiguous the other end of the tubular member, a propellant device attached to the head and within the tubular member, wherein, the propellant device propels the bead through a bore of a shotgun, the bead exiting the bore, and wherein a user can propel the at least one cleaning member and the squeegee along the bore of the shotgun.

Abstract: A gun cleaning device is provided in which a primed cartridge case is adapted to hold a bore cleaning means for cleaning the bore and to contain a propellant for propelling the bore cleaning means through the bore. The bore cleaning means has a bore-cleaning member and a back end having a base for mounting a rear end of the bore cleaning member. A method of cleaning a gun is provided in which a primed cartridge containing the bore cleaning means and sufficient propellant for propelling the bore cleaning means through the bore is fed into a chamber of a gun and the gun is fired causing the cartridge to be propelled through the bore and to thoroughly clean the bore.

Abstract: A gun cleaning device is provided in which a primed cartridge case is adapted to hold a bore cleaning means for cleaning the bore and to contain a propellant for propelling the bore cleaning means through the bore. The bore cleaning means has a bore-cleaning member and a back end having a base for mounting a rear end of the bore cleaning member. A method of cleaning a gun is provided in which a primed cartridge containing the bore cleaning means and sufficient propellant for propelling the bore cleaning means through the bore is fed into a chamber of a gun and the gun is fired causing the cartridge to be propelled through the bore and to thoroughly clean the bore.

Abstract: A gun barrel cleaning shell uses a pressurized cartridge alone or within a shell casing to propel cleaning material through the bore of the firearm. Inside the cartridge is a strike pin that when the firing pin of the firearm is actuated will cause the strike pin to puncture a rupturable end of the cartridge to release the compressed fluids therein to force the cleaning material toward and through the barrel of the firearm.

Abstract: A firearm barrel cleaning cartridge that includes a hollow, cylindrically-shaped, closed back, and open front shell casing, at least one expandable, generally hemispherically-shaped, rearwardly-facing, and removable wiper, a propellant, and at least one wad. The hollow, cylindrically-shaped, closed back, and open front shell casing contains an internal chamber. The at least one expandable, generally hemispherically-shaped, rearwardly-facing, and removable wiper is contained laterally in the hollow, cylindrically-shaped, closed back, and open front shell casing and divides the internal chamber into a plurality of internal sub-chambers. The propellant is contained in a first internal sub-chamber of the plurality of internal sub-chambers.

Abstract: A cartridge for firearms, comprising a shell (1), a primer disposed in the shell, and a liquid space containing a liquid (5) to be spread on the inner surface of a barrel. According to the invention, the liquid space (3a) is formed by a cylinder within which there is mounted a piston (4). When the primer (2) is detonated by the action of a firing pin, the piston (4) propels the liquid (5) in front of it, whereby the liquid (5) expels a plug (6) from the orifice through which oil is to be sprayed and spreads as a spray on the inner surface of the barrel.

Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning the bore of a firearm including a shell housing having a rearwardly oriented base portion, a substantially tubular body defining a cavity, and a forward end, a tank for confining a compressed fluid, the tank being disposed within the cavity of the housing, a cleaning wad for cleaning the bore of the firearm, disposed forward of the tank, and a rupturing member disposed between the tank and the cleaning wad, whereby the compressed fluid is released from the tank and propels the cleaning wad through the bore of the firearm.

Abstract: A projectile carrier for use for the muzzle loading firearm. The carrier is formed of two separate and identical halves which abut along a common vertical plane. The two halves of the carrier when combined form a circular bottom wall and a cylindrical side wall which extends upwardly from the bottom wall. The side wall has a top opening for receiving a projectile.

Abstract: A disposable firearm cleaning device and method are disclosed for cleaning the chamber and bore of a firearm, especially in the field. The cleaning device comprises a compressed gas cartridge which is supported in the chamber of the firearm in spaced relation to the walls thereof. A spring-loaded valve actuable by the firing pin of the firearm is adapted to release the compressed gas which flows between the cartridge and chamber walls and out the bore of the firearm to clean the chamber and bore. A second valve mounted to the cartridge allows the cartridge to be recharged with gas.

Abstract: A disposable firearm cleaning device and method are disclosed for cleaning the chamber and bore of a firearm, especially in the field. The cleaning device comprises a rupturable compressed gas cartridge which is supported in the chamber of the firearm in spaced relation to the walls thereof. A puncturing pin actuable by the firing pin of the firearm is adapted to rupture a disc on the end of the cartridge to release the compressed gas which flows between the cartridge and chamber walls and out the bore of the firearm to clean the chamber and bore.

Abstract: A cleaning device for firearms having a firing pin and a barrel with a shell chamber, in which a casing contains several barrel cleaning layers consisting of an abrasive, solvent, wiper and lubricant layers. A propellant is disposed in the casing in close proximity to the firing pin which activates the propellant to propel the cleaning layers through the barrel. The propellant may be a cartridge containing CO.sub.2, having a neck and cap in close proximity to the firing pin which strikes and ruptures the cap to release the CO.sub.2 and drive the cleaning layers through the barrel. A soft fabric may be disposed around the cartridge, and may be impregnated with lubricant for treating the barrel after the cleaning layers have passed therethrough.

Abstract: A gun cleaning and safety device stored and transported inside the barrels of a gun, excluding live ammunition during transport. The device has a locking extendable ramrod (22,24), which accommodates a ramrod tip (26) designed to increase the surface area of a disposable cleaning element. The base of each unit has a cartridge-like end (10) which contains a pin (12), a spring (14), a container (16) for oil and/or solvent and serves as a handle for its ramrod. Cartridge-like end (10,12,14) allows the innocuous release of a gun's hammer when a live cartridge is not present in the chamber.

Abstract: An improved multipurpose projectile obturator of composite, frangible conuction where the obturator preferably forms part of a projectile that is launched from an upstanding tube. The tube interior is provided with an alternating series of helically arranged groove and land means. A projectile at its propellant end is provided with an annular shoulder that faces in a direction toward the propellant end. An obturator is generally made up of an elastomeric band of a suitable grade of rubber. The band in being placed about the projectile surface and against the shoulder is positively retained as the projectile is inserted in the tube and launched therefrom. The outer periphery of the band has an annular groove for receiving a ring-like element. This element is preferably of three-ply construction and is also preferably made up of two half sections that are suitably bonded to the groove about the band periphery.