Rearward Sliding Breech Bolt Patents (Class 42/69.02)
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Patent number: 7188561Abstract: The adjustable firearm trigger mechanism and method of adjustment includes a firing pin block bar, a pivotally trigger shoe, and a link mechanism interconnecting the trigger shoe and the firing pin block bar. The link mechanism includes a sear bar coupled to the trigger shoe for rotation upon pivotal movement of the trigger shoe, and a push rod slidably disposed in one of a plurality of user selectable push rod holes in the trigger housing between a first pivoting end of the sear bar and the firing pin block bar. A trigger pull adjustment assembly is disposed between a second pivoting end of the sear bar and the trigger housing includes a trigger pull adjustment screw mounted in a threaded passage of the trigger housing, and a sear bar return spring abutting the trigger pull adjustment screw and inserted in a portion of the threaded passage of the trigger housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2005Date of Patent: March 13, 2007Inventor: George E. Kelbly
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Patent number: 7140141Abstract: A semi-automatic firearm includes a frame and a movable slide mounted on the frame. The slide defines an ejection port and lateral walls that extend longitudinally from a rear face of the slide to adjacent a front face through which an opening is formed to permit egress of a round of ammunition, the rear face and the front face being generally perpendicular to the lateral walls. The firearm further includes a firing mechanism and an access port formed in the lateral walls of the slide.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2004Date of Patent: November 28, 2006Assignee: Smith & Wesson Corp.Inventor: Pardip K. Vaid
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Patent number: 7103998Abstract: A camblock assembly with a camblock and a guide rod is employed in a firearm having a frame constructed of synthetic polymer material. The camblock has a front flange with flange surfaces that engage corresponding bearing surfaces of the frame to distribute forces and energy to the frame during recoil of the firearm. A shelf member is positioned at a front end of the camblock and a coiled flat wire buffer spring is positioned about the guide rod to resist movement of a reciprocating slide. A detent mechanism positioned within the camblock contacts a surface of a slide stop pin to hold the slide stop latch in place. The interior of the slide stop latch contains an elongated wire having an end that engages the frame such that the slide stop latch is biased in a down position.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2004Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Sturm Ruger & Co., Inc.Inventor: James McGarry
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Patent number: 7051467Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 29, 2003Date of Patent: May 30, 2006Inventor: John F. Huber
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Patent number: 7047685Abstract: An adjustable fire control for firearms having as series of adjustable engagement settings between the sear and the trigger, including a trigger engagement adjustment including a preset engagement and an adjustable engagement for setting the amount of displacement of the trigger with the sear for firing the firearm.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2004Date of Patent: May 23, 2006Assignee: RA Brands, L.L.C.Inventors: Danny D. Diaz, Vincent B. Norton
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Patent number: 6978568Abstract: A firing mechanism for a firearm having a spring pressed firing pin comprises a sear engagable with the spring pressed firing pin in its cocked position and releasable by the sequential release of a cocking lever and a sear release lever through an abutting contact of a portion of the trigger element with the sear release lever. The initial and final positions of the trigger, as well as the spring bias imparted to the trigger, are readily adjustable, without disassembly. All adjustments of the trigger positions, and the spring force on the trigger, are readily adjustable by screws which are accessible through the between of two horizontally spaced trigger housing plates.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2004Date of Patent: December 27, 2005Inventor: Arnold W. Jewell
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Patent number: 6931978Abstract: A blow-back operating automatic firearm has a sliding mass carried with its bolt carrier assembly to increase the dwell time of the bolt at the breech when the bolt is in battery position for firing. The sliding mass reduces the tendency of the bolt to bounce-off the head end of the seated cartridge, thereby reducing the risk that a misfiring will occur.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2004Date of Patent: August 23, 2005Assignee: SNC Technologies Inc.Inventor: Sylvain Dionne
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Publication number: 20040237371Abstract: A trigger assembly comprises a trigger frame having a body with a cavity therein, a handle connected to the body, a trigger guard on the body defining a space with which a portion of the cavity is in communication, a connection member on the body, a slot member on the body, and abutment surfaces within the cavity. It also comprises a trigger pivotably mounted and movable within the trigger frame and comprising a body portion, a pivot connection means on the body portion connectable to the connection member of the body, a lever extending from the body portion for contact by a user, an engagement portion for engaging a firing mechanism to initiate discharge, and a rod connection means associated with the body portion for connecting the trigger to a rod to initiate re-arming.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2004Publication date: December 2, 2004Inventor: Jeffrey George Orr
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Patent number: 6665973Abstract: The mechanism is applicable in military manufacture and is designed to be built in automatic and semi-automatic firearms of the kinds: pistols, machine guns and submachine guns. This mechanism is with simple construction and ensures enhanced over travel security for weapons, no safety, allowing for no accidental shooting to take place. The striker-trigger mechanism consists of a striker mechanism, a trigger mechanism and a fire-selecting mechanism integrated via a rear block (30). The fire selecting mechanism takes the form of a fire select (29). placed behind the breach block (34) with an extractor, and an internal step-like channel (7) centrally located, containing a firing pin (1) with enlargements at both ends, front and rear one respectively. The firing pin (1) has profile tooth (2) protruding outside the breach block (34) meant to engage with the trigger mechanism through a trigger (15) equipped with a return spring (18) and joint-lined to the frame (35).Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2002Date of Patent: December 23, 2003Inventor: Vladimir Georgiev Peev
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Patent number: 6640478Abstract: A firing mechanism for firearms, in particular a firing mechanism for automatic firearms, without preadjustmnent with regard to the choice of firing single rounds or bursts of fire, whereby a firing link provided with firing edge and arranged around a rotational axis, a lever arm being able to become influenced by the firing edge, which lever arm is present in a spring joint with a lever link, whereby said lever link is present in a spring joint in relation to a sear which carries one or more holding teeth for a bolt, whereby the lever arm/lever link are arranged around a further rotation axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2001Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Inventor: Bertil Johansson
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Patent number: 6634129Abstract: The present invention is a modified bolt assembly and firing mechanism for creating a replica MG 34 Mauser rifle. The present invention provides for an MG 34 replica which fires from a closed bolt firing weapon, and is capable of only semi-automatic operation. The modified bolt assembly and firing mechanism of the present invention include design elements that deter conversion of the semi-automatic MG 34 Mauser rifle replica into a fully automatic weapon.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2001Date of Patent: October 21, 2003Inventor: Richard N. Freeman, Jr.
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Patent number: 6560908Abstract: An assembly for mounting a firing pin to a bolt assembly of a firearm is provided and includes a bolt assembly adapted for mounting to the firearm, a firing pin mounted to the bolt assembly for reciprocating movement relative to the bolt assembly, and a retaining member releasably engaging a portion of the bolt assembly and slidably engaging a rearward portion of the firing pin. The retaining member is shiftable between an engaged position in which the retaining member is secured to the bolt assembly and a release position in which the retaining member and the firing pin are removable from the bolt assembly. The retaining member is biased against the portion of the bolt assembly when the retaining member is in the engaged position.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2001Date of Patent: May 13, 2003Assignee: Heckler & Koch GmbHInventor: Johannes Murello
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Patent number: 6553706Abstract: An improved firearm having a low creep, safety trigger. The firearm includes a frame, a barrel attached to the frame, a firing mechanism, a step having an adjustable step height, an over travel stop, and a sear and step trigger assembly with a secondary sear block. The secondary sear block is selectively movable between a first blocking position and a second non-blocking position.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2001Date of Patent: April 29, 2003Inventors: Robert M. Gancarz, Scott Warburton
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Patent number: 6543169Abstract: A semi-automatic firing and disconnecting device for a non-hammer fired machine. A first trigger member coupled to the weapon's firing pin and a second trigger member adapted for engagement by a user of the weapon move relative to one another from a first position, in which the trigger members are operably connected to one another, to a second position, in which the trigger members are not operably connected to one another, and back to the first position as a result of firing the weapon. The configuration of the second trigger member, upon the trigger members' returning to the first position from the second position, is altered so that the trigger members are not enabled to fire unless and until the user releases and reengages the second trigger member.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 1998Date of Patent: April 8, 2003Inventor: Timothy S. Bero
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Patent number: 6508025Abstract: A bolt action for a firearm which comprises a bolt with a removable handle which can be attached to the bolt for left handed use or for right handed use. The receiver has slots for back and forth movement and rotation to left or to right to close the chamber and has apertures for safe cartridge ejection either to the left or to the right according to the position of the handle. Primary cartridge extraction is provided for both in left handed and right handed use by a cam surface of equilateral triangular shape on the receiver and a co-acting shape on a neck of the handle as well as protection against erroneous movement of the handle to the wrong side, in use.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2000Date of Patent: January 21, 2003Assignee: Truvelo Manufacturers (Pty) LtdInventor: Alexander Benjamin Du Plessis
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Patent number: 6439217Abstract: A paintball gun in the present invention is provided with a screw hole formed in a back of a grip and extended through a chamber for being screwed with an adjusting screw whose inner end is protruded into the chamber and pressed against one sidewall surface of a magnetic-attraction plate, by which the adjusting screw is capable of being adjusted to make an inner end of the adjusting screw push the magnetic-attraction plate slightly forward or backward so that a lower end of a locking member is pushed by an outer end of a push rod of the magnetic-attraction plate to adjust the displacement height of the locking member for being fitted with different types of said gun bodies, and thus a single said grip is suited for being assembled with a gun body of different style to decrease the manufacturing of gun bodies with varied styles and lower the production cost.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2001Date of Patent: August 27, 2002Inventor: Pao-Tung Shih
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Patent number: 6405473Abstract: A slide assembly capable of repeated reciprocal movement about an upper portion of a firearm having a firing pin assembly, including a firing probe tip for selectively contacting a chambered ammunition cartridge, includes a frame having a forward end and an aft end, the frame accommodating a barrel of the firearm along a longitudinal firing axis. An ejector port is formed in the frame and has a breech face against which an end cap of the ammunition cartridge abuts when in a firing position. A longitudinal firing probe bore is formed within the frame and extends from adjacent the aft end of the frame to adjacent the breech face, the firing probe bore also is in concentric alignment with the firing axis. The slide assembly further includes a probe tip bore in concentric alignment with the firing axis and extending between the breech face and the firing probe bore for allowing the firing probe tip access beyond the breech face and into the ejector port.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2000Date of Patent: June 18, 2002Assignee: Smith & Wesson Corp.Inventors: David J. Petig, John F. Klebes, Pardip K. Vaid, Lee M. Lenkarski, Robert L. Constant
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Patent number: 6401378Abstract: A safety mechanism for a breechblock (10) for repeating weapons, having an operating means (29) arranged on the bolt handle (19), the operating means are operatively connected to a locking bolt (33) which, in the securing position and the safety-release position of the breechblock (10), can be brought into engagement with associated locking grooves (37, 38) of the breechblock sleeve (11).Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1999Date of Patent: June 11, 2002Assignee: Sommer + Ockenfuss GmbHInventor: Ulrich Ockenfuss
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Publication number: 20020053155Abstract: A firing mechanism for firearms, in particular a firing mechanism for automatic firearms, without preadjustmnent with regard to the choice of firing single rounds or bursts of fire, whereby a firing link provided with firing edge and arranged around a rotational axis, a lever arm being able to become influenced by the firing edge, which lever arm is present in a spring joint with a lever link, whereby said lever link is present in a spring joint in relation to a sear which carries one or more holding teeth for a bolt, whereby the lever arm/lever link are arranged around a further rotation axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2001Publication date: May 9, 2002Inventor: Bertil Johansson
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Patent number: 6382200Abstract: A trigger mechanism having a trigger plate slidably carried in a firearm frame for linear movement. The plate includes a rear cam surface on which a sear functions via a cam follower. The plate is provided with a single hole for holding a leg or pin of a firing valve L-shaped member. The frame has a pair of aligned slots separated by the trigger plate for slidably receiving the leg or pin of the L-shaped member. A stop lug is integrally provided on the trigger plate ahead of the L-shaped member mounting hole operable to engage the frame to stop forward movement by the trigger plate. An anti-frictional coating or finish is carried on external surfaces of the trigger plate and the sear.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2000Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Inventor: Sergey Levkov
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Publication number: 20020046478Abstract: An assembly for mounting a firing pin to a bolt assembly of a firearm is provided and includes a bolt assembly adapted for mounting to the firearm, a firing pin mounted to the bolt assembly for reciprocating movement relative to the bolt assembly, and a retaining member releasably engaging a portion of the bolt assembly and slidably engaging a rearward portion of the firing pin. The retaining member is shiftable between an engaged position in which the retaining member is secured to the bolt assembly and a release position in which the retaining member and the firing pin are removable from the bolt assembly. The retaining member is biased against the portion of the bolt assembly when the retaining member is in the engaged position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2001Publication date: April 25, 2002Inventor: Johannes Murello
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Patent number: 6308448Abstract: An interlocked firing mechanism for a gun includes a trigger, a sear and a firing pin having a depending leg, wherein the firing pin is movable in a rectilinear manner along a firing axis. The depending leg of the firing pin is adapted to have a contact surface, while the sear is adapted to have a control surface in mating engagement with the contact surface at a time prior to firing of the gun. The contact surface and the control surface of the interlocked firing mechanism of the present invention are further adapted to have parallel surfaces which mate with one another along a mating axis, defining an edge of a mating plane, which is set at a predetermined angle from a line perpendicular to the firing axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1999Date of Patent: October 30, 2001Assignee: Smith & Wesson CorporationInventors: John Kapusta, John Pliska
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Patent number: 6263606Abstract: A pistol comprises a housing and a slide which slides on this housing and contains the barrel and the breech, in which case the breech has a mainspring and a firing bolt, and a trigger acts via a trigger rod on the trigger device.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1999Date of Patent: July 24, 2001Assignee: Steyr Mannlicher AG & Co KGInventor: Friedrich Aigner
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Patent number: 6212991Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus for reducing recoil on a firearm or gun and to increase rate of firing. The invention uses a dual mass system to dynamically balance the gun wherein some of the energy of firing is absorbed within springs and thereby reduces the recoil force imparted to the gun user. The apparatus also comprises an ejector mechanism for ejecting a spent round and reloading a new round from the gun magazine with increased speed over conventional designs. The apparatus is applicable to automatic and semiautomatic handguns as well as rifles and machine guns.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1999Date of Patent: April 10, 2001Inventor: Taylor Frazier, III
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Patent number: 6178682Abstract: A repeating rifle having a bolt action comprises a breech housing (1), a breech body (3) which can be moved and can be rotated in this breech housing (1) and has a movable plug (4) and a firing pin (6) which is loaded by a firing pin spring (7) and has a cocking piece (8), in which case the breech body (3) has in its interior a cocking guide which interacts with the cocking piece (8). In order to achieve maximum safety and maximum operating convenience with as little physical complexity as possible, a cocking cam bush (33) is guided such that it can be moved in the longitudinal direction in the breech body (3) as the cocking guide, on which cocking cam bush the firing pin spring (7) is supported, and the plug (4) has a guide sleeve (36) which interacts with the cocking cam bush (33).Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 1998Date of Patent: January 30, 2001Assignee: Steyr-Daimler-Puch AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ulrich Zedrosser, Hubert Kefer