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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7878106 | Firing control mechanism for toy gun A firing control mechanism for an air-soft toy gun is disclosed for enabling a user to rotate a switch in selecting a single shot, 3-shot continuous firing, multi-shot continuous firing or safety lock mode, having a ratchet wheel pivotally mounted on an axle of the ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7398723 | Trigger forward displacement system and method A semi-automatic firearm has forward and rearward ends. A receiver has a safety selector aperture, a barrel, a reciprocating loading mechanism and a magazine. A trigger finger and inner portions. The inner portion has a seat with a groove. A disconnector has a hamme... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7219463 | Methods and apparatus to secure a safety catch in a jammed position Methods and apparatus to secure a bolt in a jammed position are disclosed. A disclosed firearm includes a housing; a mounting bracket carried by the housing; and a cocking slide slidably engaging the mounting bracket external to the housing. The cocking slide is eng... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7069922 | Paintball marker internal reset system An internal reset system for paint ball markers. A hammer body as modified rearwardly to include an axial opening to receivably retain the forward head of a reset rod. The forward portion of the reset rod is thus free to reciprocate within the axial opening, but res... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6941693 | Paintball guns A paintball gun is disclosed which includes a data link for transferring data to and/or from a remote terminal. The link may be a contact or contactless one. A removable data carrier may be used. ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 5760328 | Four position firearm fire control selector A firearm with a trigger, a hammer, an automatic sear, and a selector switch connected to a rotatable firing control cam for selecting among types of firing selections of the firearm. The types of firing selections include safe, semi-automatic, limited au... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5251533 | Firing mode selection apparatus A firing mode selector apparatus enables a rifle to be selected into one of four different modes in a logical sequence from safe to semi-automatic to burst to full automatic or vice versa. The selector lever of the rifle is configured to receive a modifie... | 10/12/1993 |
| 4941394 | Hand-held automatic firearm The trigger mechanism of a hand-held automatic firearm comprises a catch lever, which is pivoted on a transverse axis and is provided at its forward end with a pivoted catch pawl, which in a catching position engages a catching lug of a slider to arrest t... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4803910 | Multiple firing gun trigger extension assembly The assembly is adapted for use with a preferably semi-automatic gun. It includes a mounting block which is adapted to releasably clamp over the lower rung of a trigger guard bar and which bears a trigger-actuating component rotatably secured thereto. Tha... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4693169 | Control device for rapid firing particularly automatic weapons Disclosed is a control device for controlling the firing modes of portable, automatic weapons, the components of which are mounted on a support box that is insertable into and removable from, as a unit, the tripping box of the weapon. In the tripping box ... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4685379 | Multiple firing gun and trigger extension assembly The gun is semi-automatic and preferably is an M-16/AR-15. It includes a firing trigger, frame and trigger guard, as well as a multiple firing gun trigger extension assembly. The assembly includes an elongated trigger guard bar incorporated into the trigg... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4619183 | Device for causing a firearm to fire in controlled bursts A burst fire device makes it possible, by means of an appropriate fire selector, to fire either a single shot or controlled bursts comprising three or more shots every time the trigger of the firearm is pulled. The mechanism includes a ratchet wheel (3) p... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4594934 | Burst fire control mechanism A burst fire control mechanism for an automatic fire arm including a bolt longitudinally displaceably disposed in a receiver comprising a hammer mechanism pivotally mounted in the receiver; a trigger assembly pivotally mounted in the receiver including a ... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4523509 | Shoulder arm The invention relates to an automatic shoulder arm, such as a machine gun, which can be changed over to semi-automatic fire, burst and automatic fire. In order to reduce the ammunition consumption in the automatic fire mode and to increase the hit rate, t... | 06/18/1985 |
| 4510844 | Electronic firing mechanism for weapons An electrical firing mechanism for hand guns and small caliber machine guns having a tension trigger which tightens a compression spring locading an impact member which when released strikes a piezo-voltage generator. The output of the generator leads to ... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4450751 | Fire limiter for automatic firearms with hammer blow detonation In a fire limiter for automatic firearms with hammer blow detonation, a pawl (38) is supported pivotally directly on a bearing on the hammer arranged eccentrically to the latter's pivoting axis (1). The pawl transfers essentially the entire striking motio... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4344351 | Trigger mechanism providing a short burst of fire capability for submachine guns A trigger mechanism for submachine guns and other automatic weapons, having a spring loaded burst finger incorporated into a standard trigger, so that the burst finger bears against the sear in such a way that when the trigger is squeezed the burst finger... | 08/17/1982 |
| 4265161 | Means for controlling rapid-fire in an automatic weapon The present invention provides a conventional weapon with means that permit selective firing in a single shot mode, an automatic mode or in a mode wherein a predetermined number of shots are sequentially fired while the trigger is kept in the squeezed con... | 05/05/1981 |
| 4212227 | Dual-mode firing mechanism A dual-mode firing mechanism for a high-rate-of-fire rifle capable of fir small arm cartridges conventionally by the application of a hammer, and inertially, bypassing the trigger mechanism, to provide sustained fire of a discrete number of cartridges in... | 07/15/1980 |
| 4117761 | Fire control mechanism 1. In a firearm; an operating rod disposed for reciprocation between a breech closed position and a recoil position in response to the cyclic rate of the firearm; sear means spring biased into a holding position for retaining said operating rod in a cocke... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4095507 | Combat firearm This invention relates to firearms of the type disclosed in my prior U.S. Pat. No. 3,424,053, granted Jan. 28, 1969, in which the principal parts such as actuating sleeve, receiver, frame and breechblock are made from cylindrical extruded metal tubing and... | 06/20/1978 |
| 4024792 | Automatic shoulder arm In an automatic shoulder arm designed as a gas operated weapon, especially an automatic rifle, the entire, fully operable weapon system, comprising the barrel, the bolt system, the gas operated action, the recoil spring arrangement, the cartridge feeding ... | 05/24/1977 |
| 4020740 | Firearms for selectively continuous and non-continuous operation A firearm adjustable into single-shot, burst and continuous operation modes is described. For operation in one of the non-continuous modes, an indexing device disposed on the rear portion of a first lever in the firearm trigger mechanism is placed into en... | 05/03/1977 |
| 4004496 | M16A1 Burst control An automatically recyclable burst control mechanism for weapon systems wh is responsive to trigger action to actuate automatic recycling of the burst control mechanism to its initial position, independent of the number of rounds fired in each preceding a... | 01/25/1977 |
