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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7350452 | Firearm with improved salvo accuracy and similar device for a firearm A fire arm with improved salvo accuracy, having a barrel and a casing mounted on a supporting frame, whereby the frame comprises a cradle provided with a slide which can slide in a direction which is mainly parallel to the axis of the barrel. The casing is mounted o... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7347021 | Firearm action or receiver Apparatus 10 discloses a receiver body 12 along with a trigger 14 for activating the firing mechanism and a lever 16 for opening the breech assembly to allow access to the chamber for receiving the shell/cartridge 56 at the rear of... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7311032 | Firearms with gas pressure loading mechanisms Firearms employing gas pressure loading mechanisms are disclosed. An example firearm includes a single force receiving component containing a gas cylinder, and a barrel in communication with a cartridge chamber received in the force receiving component. The cartridg... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7237469 | Firearms having a locked breech Firearms having a locked breech are disclosed. An example firearm includes a barrel; a bolt head; a firing pin having a bulge; a bolt head carrier having a forward position and a rearward position; a central force receiving component receiving a rear end of the barr... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7231864 | Reciprocating barrel firearm apparatus A firearm apparatus includes a gun housing which includes a barrel support channel between a front gun housing portion and an intermediate gun housing portion. A reciprocating barrel is housed inside the gun housing and includes a piston-sleeve-contained barrel port... | 06/19/2007 |
| 6964220 | Floating barrel handgun method of recoil elimination A floating barrel gun design, a design in which a propellant gas discharge is used to counterbalance the recoil force of the gun, has been improved to include a novel automatic mechanical mechanism which allows the floating or inner barrel to be held stationary with... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6412390 | Low impulse firing adapter for combination gas and recoil operated weapons A low impulse firing attachment and companion ammunition for combination gas and recoil operated automatic weapons is comprised of a barrel insert and piston that provide the mechanism for containing the expanding propellant gases produced on firing. Such... | 07/02/2002 |
| 4709617 | Firearm An automatic gas-operated forward recoiling combat shotgun has a reciprocally movable barrel which includes a bore and a revolving magazine which defines a circumaxially spaced series of firing chambers. In firing position, one of the firing chambers is c... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4635530 | Automatic hand firearm with rigidly locked breech for ammunition with extremely high projectile momentum An automatic hand firearm for ammunition with extremely high projectile momentum is designed as a recoil loader which has a mounted barrel, supported by a spring and brake system (6, 7) on the weapon housing, a breech block (9, 10), which can be rigidly l... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4324170 | Residue-accommodation means for a gas-operated gun A recoil-operated gun wherein combustion gases are bled from the gun barrel gainst an end surface of a bolt-operating piston that is slidably disposed in a stationary cylinder carried by the gun receiver. A system of radial grooves and annular pockets is p... | 04/13/1982 |
| 4178832 | Automatic gun having gas leakage control mechanism This invention relates to automatic guns having bolt carriers operated by coil movement of the gun barrel. High pressure gas is bled from the barrel into a gas tube that delivers both mechanical and fluid pressure forces to a piston impactor aligned with ... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4166409 | Sporting weapon Automatic or semi-automatic sporting weapon of the type with gas tapping, characterized by the fact that it is fitted with a floating barrel.... | 09/04/1979 |
| 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 |
| 3985062 | Firearm construction A firearm, particularly a short firearm for firing caseless ammunition, comprises a housing having a sleeve fixed therein with first and second spring members which are biased against a projection on the gun barrel in order to hold it against axial displa... | 10/12/1976 |
