201 |
Cooling of weapons with graphite foam |
US13700147 |
2010-12-07 |
US09528785B2 |
2016-12-27 |
James W. Klett; Michael P. Trammell |
Disclosed are examples of an apparatus for cooling a barrel 12 of a firearm 10 and examples of a cooled barrel assembly 32 for installation into an existing firearm 10. When assembled with the barrel 12, a contact surface 16 of a shell 14 is proximate to, and in thermal communication with, the outer surface of the barrel 18. The shell 14 is formed of commercially available or modified graphite foam. |
202 |
Automatic or semi-automatic rifle |
US14169685 |
2014-01-31 |
US09279632B2 |
2016-03-08 |
Paul Hochstrate; Laurance Robbins; Arthur F. Daigle |
A rifle having a receiver with an integral hand guard and a barrel. The barrel is connected to the receiver. The hand guard extends over and surrounds the barrel. A removable hand guard is attached to the receiver by an attachment that stably holds the removable hand guard to the receiver. The attachment is arranged for allowing detachment and removal of the removable hand guard from the receiver without removal of fasteners. |
203 |
WEAPON WITH THERMAL MANAGEMENT COMPONENTS |
US14591532 |
2015-01-07 |
US20150300764A1 |
2015-10-22 |
Andrew Dewitt Balthaser; Robert Neil Mulfinger |
A weapon includes a cover system that extends a length. The cover system includes an opening that extends through the length of the cover system. The weapon includes a barrel that extends through the opening of the cover system. The cover system includes a composite material that is configured to provide thermal insulation relative to heat emitted from the barrel. |
204 |
Annular piston system for rifles |
US13658712 |
2012-10-23 |
US08746126B2 |
2014-06-10 |
Jing Zheng |
An annular piston system for a firearm comprises a barrel, a gas block assembly, a piston, and a spring. The barrel has multiple sections lengthwise, one of the sections having at least one gas port hole to vent gas from the barrel. The gas block assembly is disposed annularly around the barrel and is adjustable to control an amount of gas flowing out of the barrel through the at least one gas port hole. The piston is disposed annularly around the barrel and can move longitudinally along the barrel in response to being pushed by the gas flowing out of the barrel. The spring is disposed annularly around the third section of the barrel and coupled to the piston. The spring limits a distance that the piston can move longitudinally along the barrel when the piston is pushed to move by the gas flowing out of the barrel. |
205 |
WEAPON WITH THERMAL MANAGEMENT COMPONENTS |
US13494140 |
2012-06-12 |
US20140076135A1 |
2014-03-20 |
Andrew Dewitt Balthaser; Robert Neil Mulfinger |
A weapon includes a cover system that extends a length. The cover system includes an opening that extends through the length of the cover system. The weapon includes a barrel that extends through the opening of the cover system. The cover system includes a composite material that is configured to provide thermal insulation relative to heat emitted from the barrel. |
206 |
Modular fore-end rail/hand guard assembly system for firearms with selectable heat dissipation characteristics |
US13006083 |
2011-01-13 |
US08448367B2 |
2013-05-28 |
Scott W. Samson; Jonathan Bernashe |
A modular fore-end rail assembly for mounting onto a firearm includes a hand guard and a bushing element that combines with an end portion of the hand guard to encircle the standard barrel nut, thereby supporting the entire assembly without requiring modification to the standard barrel nut. The thermal transfer characteristics of the material from which the bushing element is manufactured may be selected to either increase or decrease the rate at which heat is transferred from the barrel nut to the hand guard allowing for rapid changes of bushing elements and, therefore, rapid and selective changes in the heating rate of the hand guard. |
207 |
Thermally-insulating cover for firearm sound suppressor |
US12930576 |
2011-01-11 |
US08397615B2 |
2013-03-19 |
Dale Avery Poling |
A cover for use with a firearm sound suppressor comprises an insulating body and a retention apparatus attached to the insulating body. The insulating body includes one or more layers of thermally-insulating material. The insulating body is configured for being wrapped around the firearm sound suppressor. The retention apparatus includes a securing structure configured for being wrapped around the insulating body to secure the insulating body in a fixed position with respect to the firearm sound suppressor after the insulating body is wrapped around the firearm sound suppressor. |
208 |
COOLING OF WEAPONS WITH GRAPHITE FOAM |
US13700147 |
2010-12-07 |
US20130061503A1 |
2013-03-14 |
Klett James W.; Michael P. Trammell |
Disclosed are examples of an apparatus for cooling a barrel 12 of a firearm 10 and examples of a cooled barrel assembly 32 for installation into an existing firearm 10. When assembled with the barrel 12, a contact surface 16 of a shell 14 is proximate to, and in thermal communication with, the outer surface of the barrel 18. The shell 14 is formed of commercially available or modified graphite foam. |
209 |
Thermal insulation jacket for a gun barrel |
US12290808 |
2008-11-04 |
US08347773B2 |
2013-01-08 |
Gert Schlenkert; Eckehard Bohnsack; Alexander Tekin |
A thermal insulation jacket for a gun barrel, especially a cannon barrel, where the thermal insulation jacket includes a metal jacket that surrounds the gun barrel. In order to prevent uneven heating of the surface of the gun barrel within the thermal insulation jacket, an additional area that is especially effective at reflecting thermal radiation is provided on the inner surface of the metal jacket that lies opposite the underside of the gun barrel, so that when the gun barrel heats, the temperature differences between the upper side and the underside of the gun barrel are at least partially compensated. For this purpose, a reflective film is provided as the area that is a good reflector of thermal radiation. This reflective film is adhesively attached to the metal jacket. |
210 |
MODULAR FORE-END RAIL/HAND GUARD ASSEMBLY SYSTEM FOR FIREARMS WITH SELECTABLE HEAT DISSIPATION CHARACTERISTICS |
US13006083 |
2011-01-13 |
US20120180358A1 |
2012-07-19 |
Scott W. Samson; Jonathan Bernashe |
A modular fore-end rail assembly for mounting onto a firearm includes a hand guard and a bushing element that combines with an end portion of the hand guard to encircle the standard barrel nut, thereby supporting the entire assembly without requiring modification to the standard barrel nut. The thermal transfer characteristics of the material from which the bushing element is manufactured may be selected to either increase or decrease the rate at which heat is transferred from the barrel nut to the hand guard allowing for rapid changes of bushing elements and, therefore, rapid and selective changes in the heating rate of the hand guard. |
211 |
Automatic or semi-automatic rifle |
US11352036 |
2006-02-09 |
US08051595B2 |
2011-11-08 |
Paul Hochstrate; Laurance Robbins; Arthur F. Daigle |
A rifle having a receiver with an integral hand guard and a barrel. The barrel is connected to the receiver. The hand guard extends over and surrounds the barrel. A removable hand guard is attached to the receiver by an attachment that stably holds the removable hand guard to the receiver. The attachment is arranged for allowing detachment and removal of the removable hand guard from the receiver without removal of fasteners. |
212 |
Thermal insulation jacket for a gun barrel |
US12290808 |
2008-11-04 |
US20110100204A1 |
2011-05-05 |
Gert Schlenkert; Eckehard Bohnsack; Alexander Tekin |
A thermal insulation jacket for a gun barrel, especially a cannon barrel, where the thermal insulation jacket includes a metal jacket that surrounds the gun barrel. In order to prevent uneven heating of the surface of the gun barrel within the thermal insulation jacket, an additional area that is especially effective at reflecting thermal radiation is provided on the inner surface of the metal jacket that lies opposite the underside of the gun barrel, so that when the gun barrel heats, the temperature differences between the upper side and the underside of the gun barrel are at least partially compensated. For this purpose, a reflective film is provided as the area that is a good reflector of thermal radiation. This reflective film is adhesively attached to the metal jacket. |
213 |
RETROFIT COOLING SYSTEM FOR GATLING MACHINE GUN |
US11825025 |
2007-07-03 |
US20100192759A1 |
2010-08-05 |
Tracy W. Garwood |
A cooling system for a Gatling machine gun can be use to retrofit an existing machine gun or can be incorporated in a newly manufactured gun. The system directs fluid through the housing assembly of the machine gun to a location intermediate barrels of the gun, and discharges the fluid to cool the barrels. |
214 |
Automatic or semi-automatic rifle |
US11352036 |
2006-02-09 |
US20070033851A1 |
2007-02-15 |
Paul Hochstrate; Laurance Robbins; Arthur Daigle |
A rifle having a receiver with an integral hand guard and a barrel. The barrel is connected to the receiver. The hand guard extends over and surrounds the barrel. A removable hand guard is attached to the receiver by an attachment that stably holds the removable hand guard to the receiver. The attachment is arranged for allowing detachment and removal of the removable hand guard from the receiver without removal of fasteners. |
215 |
Method for gun barrel manufacture using tailored autofrettage mandrels |
US10868124 |
2004-06-15 |
US20050066801A1 |
2005-03-31 |
Michael Hermanson; Brian Bauman; Donald Nalley |
A method of manufacturing a monobloc gun barrel by calculating an optimal residual stress profile and then applying tailored autofrettage mandrels which are mechanically pressed down the bore of a large caliber barrel, the mandrel size optimized to create a residual stress distribution on the interior of the bore within the design constraints imposed by the worst-case heat flux scenario. |
216 |
Method for gun barrel manufacture using tailored autofrettage mandrels |
US10358686 |
2003-02-05 |
US06810615B2 |
2004-11-02 |
Michael J. Hermanson; Brian Bauman; Donald A. Nalley |
A method of manufacturing a monobloc gun barrel by calculating an optimal residual stress profile and then applying tailored autofrettage mandrels which are mechanically pressed down the bore of a large caliber barrel, the mandrel size optimized to create a residual stress distribution on the interior of the bore within the design constraints imposed by the worst-case heat flux scenario. |
217 |
Weapon with rotating barrel |
US10101359 |
2002-03-18 |
US06679156B1 |
2004-01-20 |
Samir A. Danou |
A weapon for firing a projectile is provided that includes a receiver within which is disposed a loading mechanism for loading and unloading the weapon. A feed system supplies the loading mechanism with ammunition and a firing mechanism releases the loading mechanism for loading and firing the projectile. A barrel is rotatively secured to the receiver and preferably includes a rifled bore that imparts a gyroscopic spin on the projectile and a rotational force on the barrel causing the barrel to rotate as the projectile is fired. In a preferred embodiment, the barrel is provided with a plurality of blades that capture air and generate airflow across the weapon and barrel to cool the barrel. |
218 |
Thermal jacket for elongated structures |
US101316 |
1979-12-07 |
US4346643A |
1982-08-31 |
Peter F. Taylor; Harold J. Tuchyner; Algerd Basiulis; Thomas R. Lamp |
An arrangement for reducing non-symmetrical, thermally induced strains in a gun tube (12) comprising a heat pipe jacket (18) in thermal engagement with the gun tube to provide both high radial and circumferential thermal conductance from the tube. |
219 |
Fluid prestress and cooling technique for gun barrel design |
US3727513D |
1971-07-19 |
US3727513A |
1973-04-17 |
WICKS L |
A gun barrel having a fluid layer between the barrel liner and case. The fluid is kept under a high pressure to prestress the liner. Between shots the fluid is replaced to remove the heat conducted by the liner.
|
220 |
Fluid cylinder surrounding a stationary barrel |
US59308056 |
1956-06-22 |
US2894347A |
1959-07-14 |
HENRY WOODCOCK FRANCIS |
|