101 |
PRE-STRESSED BORE BARREL AND RELATED MANUFACTURING METHOD |
US13122141 |
2009-10-07 |
US20110265365A1 |
2011-11-03 |
Juam Ramon Alonso Tricio |
Allows the reduction in the loss of precision of a discharge caused by the progressive heating-up of the barrel during a long succession of discharges, comprising at least: an interior rifled gunbore (1), an outer sleeve (2) mounted coaxially on the rifled gunbore (1) and configured with a high polar moment of inertia to support the strains in the rifled gunbore (1), while at the same time providing rigidity to the conjoined configuration, and a screwed union (3) adapted for the solid mutual fixation of said pieces. At least two holes (5, 6) are additionally provided which traverse the wall of the rifled gunbore (1) equilibrating the temperatures of said rifled gunbore (1) and said outer sleeve (2), in such a manner as to maintain the initially provided pre-strain of the barrel. The outer sleeve (2) may dispose an aperture for gases (1), adapted for the fitting of a repeat mechanism. |
102 |
GUN BARREL OF FIREARMS |
US13080268 |
2011-04-05 |
US20110253270A1 |
2011-10-20 |
Devrim CALISKANOGLU; Herbert SCHWEIGER; Ingo SILLER |
Gun barrel for firearms made from a deformed material and method for producing the gun barrel material. The material has a chemical composition in % by weight of: ContentCSiMnPSCrMo Min0.280.080.15 3.61.2 Max0.360.260.350.0050.0024.41.8 ContentNiVWTiAs + Sn + SbFe Min 0.42 Rest Max<0.50.5 0.150.080.007 and impurities due to smelting. The material has a hardness of at least 46 to 48 HRC. |
103 |
Stress Induced Crystallographic Phase Transformation and Texturing in Tubular Products Made of Cobalt and Cobalt Alloys |
US12787778 |
2010-05-26 |
US20110011253A1 |
2011-01-20 |
Matthew V. Fonte |
A method of producing a cobalt-based tubular product includes forming a cobalt or cobalt alloy tubular workpiece having at least about 30% by weight of fcc phase and subjecting the workpiece to at least about a 20% wall reduction at a temperature below a recrystallization temperature of the workpiece using a metal forming process. The metal forming process may include radial forging, rotary swaging, pilgering and/or flowforming. A gun barrel includes a tubular component made of a cobalt-based superalloy material. The component has at least about 25% by weight of hcp phase with basal planes radially oriented perpendicular to an inner diameter of the component. |
104 |
Paintball Gun |
US12271703 |
2008-11-14 |
US20100051004A1 |
2010-03-04 |
Sheng-Jen Lian |
A paintball gun which comprises: a handle bar connected to a part of a body, and a barrel connected to a front end of the body. The body and the barrel are made of metal material, and the outer surfaces of the body and the barrel are partially coated with a cladding layer which comprises a carbon fiber layer and a resin layer. The barrel comprises an inner pipe which is made of metal material and includes a base and a connecting portion, at an outer surface of the base is disposed the cladding layer, the connecting portion extends axially from one end of the base to connect the body. |
105 |
METHOD FOR QUASI-INSTANTANEOUS POLYMERIZATION OF FILAMENT WOUND COMPOSITE MATERIALS |
US12415462 |
2009-03-31 |
US20100043764A1 |
2010-02-25 |
Brian H. Jones |
A method of winding fibers on a mandrel, the wound fibers being in tension, includes providing a source of fibers, imposing a torque on the source that resists dispensing the fibers from the source to exert a tension on the fibers, adding ultra-violet sensitive material that is polymerized by exposure to ultra-violet light to a resin matrix, impregnating dispensed fibers with the additive containing resin matrix, rotating a mandrel to wind the impregnated fibers on the mandrel, the rotation of the mandrel acting to overcome the torque on the source and putting the fibers in tension, and in situ, quasi instantaneously polymerizing the additive containing resin matrix on the mandrel by means of exposing the additive containing resin matrix to ultra-violet light for a selected period of time, such polymerization acting to lock in the tension in the fibers at the time of polymerization. A rail gun fabricated by means of the above method is further included. |
106 |
Apparatus and method for applying coatings onto the interior surfaces of components and related structures produced therefrom |
US10584682 |
2005-01-10 |
US20090017217A1 |
2009-01-15 |
Derek D. Hass; Haydn N. G. Wadley |
Provided is a methodology and system for applying coatings onto the interior surfaces of components. The approach comprises a vapor creation device (for example an electron beam or laser that evaporates a single or multiplicity of solid or liquid sources), a vacuum chamber having a moderate gas pressure (between about 10−4 to about 103 Torr) and a inert gas jet having controlled velocity and flow fields of gas jet. The gas jet is created by a rarefied, inert gas supersonic expansion through a nozzle. By controlling the carrier gas flow into a region upstream of the nozzle an upstream pressure is achieved (i.e. the gas pressure prior to its entrance into the processing chamber through the nozzle). The carrier gas flow and chamber pumping rate control the downstream (or chamber) pressure (i.e., downstream of the nozzle). The ratio of the upstream to downstream pressure along with the size and shape of the nozzle opening controls the speed of the gas entering the chamber. The carrier gas molecular weight (compared to that of the vapor) and the carrier gas speed controls its effectiveness in redirecting the vapor atoms via binary collisions towards the substrate. The speed and flux of the atoms entering the chamber, the nozzle parameters, and the operating chamber pressure can all vary leading to a wide range of accessible processing conditions. Vapor created from a source is transported into the interior regions of a component using binary collisions between the vapor and gas jet atoms. Under certain process conditions these collisions enable the vapor atoms to scatter onto the interior surfaces of the component and deposit. |
107 |
Processing of rifled gun barrels from advanced materials |
US11480639 |
2006-07-03 |
US20080120889A1 |
2008-05-29 |
Animesh Bose; Robert J. Dowding; Jeffrey J. Swab |
Gun barrels made from advanced materials have the potential to provide a significant increase in barrel life as well as a reduction in weight (for advanced ceramic materials) for small caliber systems. The potential use of advanced materials as gun barrels is severely limited due to the difficulty in introducing the rifling pattern on the inner diameter. Most projectiles coming out of the guns are spin stabilized (for aerodynamic flight stability). This spin is imparted by a rifling pattern (lands and grooves) in the inner surface of the gun barrel. The processing of gun barrels made from advanced materials with internal rifling pattern poses a tremendous processing challenge to the materials community. The rifling lands and grooves and desired twist rate coupled with the difficulty of machining some of the advanced materials (ceramics, cermets, hardmetals, etc.) makes the economic manufacturing of such gun barrels extremely difficult. Currently, this form of rifling is achieved by machining in case of metallic gun barrels.The limitation in producing the rifled pattern lies with the conventional processing of complex shaped advanced materials such as ceramics, cermets, or hardmetals. Shaping of these typically requires careful diamond grinding. This grinding process is not only very expensive but it also introduces flaws in case of the brittle ceramics (microcracks). These flaws are detrimental to the performance of these advanced materials as rifled gun barrels. Thus, there is an opportunity and challenge to the materials community to come up with a processing solution that will allow advanced materials such as silicon nitride (Si3N4), SiAlON, hardmetals, etc. to be used as gun barrels that have the rifled pattern in the inner diameter.Herein are provided methods and compositions useful to form the rifled gun barrel tubes from advanced materials using little or no machining of the internal rifled geometry. |
108 |
Method of Producing Hybrid Tubular Metal/Ceramic Composites and Resulting Products |
US11615958 |
2006-12-23 |
US20070261599A1 |
2007-11-15 |
Stuart Schwab; Kevin Dudek |
There are disclosed inventions relating to tubular hybrid metal/ceramic composites and the methods of making them wherein the ceramic chosen has a lower thermal expansion than that of the metal. |
109 |
SUPERALLOY MORTAR TUBE |
US11162745 |
2005-09-21 |
US20060288854A1 |
2006-12-28 |
Mark Witherell; Richard Becker; Jose Santiago; Steve Tauscher; Michael George; Ramon Espinosa; George Hathaway |
A finless mortar tube is made of a superalloy. The superalloy is based on one of cobalt, iron and nickel. The finless mortar tube has an integrally formed blast attenuation device. The mortar tube may be 60, 81 or 120 mm. The mortar tube is capable of a substantial increase in the rate of fire compared to conventional mortar tubes. |
110 |
Rocket launcher system and method for controlling a rocket launcher system |
US10432633 |
2001-12-07 |
US07032493B2 |
2006-04-25 |
Dean Fowler |
A rocket launcher system and a method for controlling a rocket launcher system. The rocket launcher system is placed below deck on a ship to improve the ship's stealth capability and includes a launcher, a charger and a magazine containing one or more different types of rocket missiles. According to the method for controlling the rocket launcher system, an operating signal including preparation data is transferred to the rocket launcher system from one or more operators. The preparation data is transferred to a rocket missile and a charger takes the rocket missile from a magazine and charges a launcher. A hatch in the ship's deck is opened, and the launcher sights the rocket missile at a target area. |
111 |
Rocket launcher system and method for controlling a rocket launcher system |
US10432633 |
2003-12-02 |
US20040069135A1 |
2004-04-15 |
Dean
Fowler |
The present invention relates to a rocket launcher system and a method for controlling a rocket launcher system. The rocket launcher system (1) is placed below deck (100) on a ship to improve the ship's stealth capability and comprises a launcher (11, 15), a charger (12, 15) and a magazine (13) containing one or more different types of rocket missiles (3). The method for controlling the rocket launcher system (1) comprises transferring of an operating signal (6), comprising preparation data, to the rocket launcher system from one or more operators (2; 21, 22, 23, 24, 25). The preparation data is transferred to a rocket missile (3) and a charger (12) is caused to fetch the rocket missile from a magazine (13) and charge a launcher (11). A hatch (101) in the ship's deck (100) is opened, and the launcher is caused to sight the rocket missile (3) at a target area (4). |
112 |
Method for producing tubes for heavy guns |
US10092443 |
2002-03-08 |
US06652680B2 |
2003-11-25 |
Walter Grimm; Wolfgang Arrenbrecht |
The method for producing tubes for heavy guns employs a heat-treatable steel, consisting in wt.-% of 0.20 to 0.50% carbon, max. 1.0% silicon, max. 1.0% manganese, max. 0.03% phosphorus, max. 0.03% sulfur, max. 0.1% aluminum, max. 4% nickel, max. 2% chromium, max. 1% molybdenum, max. 0.5% vanadium, and the remainder of iron and the customary impurities. Forgings of open-smelted cast ingots are pre-worked on a lathe on the outside. The solid blanks obtained in this way are hardened and tempered, only subsequently drilled and then finished. |
113 |
Process for the manufacture of a launching tube for missiles |
US896877 |
1986-08-15 |
US4790970A |
1988-12-13 |
Josef Kurth; Christoph Mathey; Waldemar Wissinger |
A process for the manufacture of a launching tube with an internal guide surface for effecting controlled spin missiles, such as rockets, wherein the launching tube is provided on the inside with helically extending grooves and/or ridges contacting guide cams or the like of the missiles for guiding therealong; this launching tube is extruded, and sized, from a molding composition containing fiber-reinforced thermoplastic synthetic resin, to have integrally formed, slightly helically extending grooves and/or ridges. |
114 |
Launching tube for missiles |
US731015 |
1985-05-06 |
US4646618A |
1987-03-03 |
Josef Kurth; Christoph Mathey; Waldemar Wissinger |
A launching tube with an internal guide surface for effecting controlled spin for missiles, such as rockets, wherein the launching tube is provided on the inside with helically extending grooves and/or ridges contacting guide cams or the like of the missiles for guiding therealong. This launching tube is extruded, and sized, from a molding composition containing fiber-reinforced thermoplastic synthetic resin, to have integrally formed, slightly helically extending grooves and/or ridges. |
115 |
Wear resistant gun barrel and method of making the same |
US3780465D |
1972-06-01 |
US3780465A |
1973-12-25 |
POLCHA R |
A wear resistant gun barrel and method of producing it is disclosed. The barrel has hardened zones or lands which penetrate into the barrel material between rifling grooves and which are highly resistant to wear from repeated projectile firings. The hardened zones or lands are produced by heating a narrow zone on the outside of the gun barrel with a high intensity heat source, allowing any desired pattern to be melted into the steel. The molten zones, when cool, produce areas having increased hardness. The final step is to machine the gun barrel to the proper inner diameter and engrave rifling grooves between the hardened zones. In the case of large caliber gun barrels the hardened zones are provided in an inner liner which is then shrunk fit into the outer cylinder before the machining step is performed.
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116 |
Composite gun barrels |
US34019853 |
1953-03-04 |
US2981155A |
1961-04-25 |
AUTHONY PARLANTI CONRAD |
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117 |
Manufacture of gun barrels |
US37413153 |
1953-08-13 |
US2876095A |
1959-03-03 |
DICKERSON JULIAN D |
|
118 |
Aluminum alloy gun barrel with a lubricating film |
US34440153 |
1953-03-24 |
US2850828A |
1958-09-09 |
SULLIVAN GEORGE C |
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119 |
Hardened metallic structure |
US50778343 |
1943-10-27 |
US2541115A |
1951-02-13 |
SOMES HOWARD E |
|
120 |
Firearm and alloy for making same |
US34508319 |
1919-12-15 |
US1346191A |
1920-07-13 |
FAHRENWALD FRANK A |
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