Multiple-barrel firearm and method of use
AssigneeTMP Weapons, LLC
InventorsJoshua Phillip Alexander, Wade Karl Schmidt, Stephen McKinnley Estep
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Abstract
A machine gun comprising a gun housing; a rotor assembly positioned within the gun housing; a barrel cluster including a plurality of barrels extending forward from the rotor assembly; one or more vents providing a path for expulsion away from the rotor assembly of gases emanating from a cartridge chambered in one of the plurality of barrels; and one or more of a rotor lock mechanism, a feed mechanism, a delinking and transfer mechanism, a searing mechanism, a drive system, a self-contained hardware barrel clamp, a threaded adapter barrel clamp, integrated mounts, and/or multiple feed inlet locations.
Claims14
A machine gun comprising:
- a gun housing;
- a rotor assembly positioned within the gun housing;
- a barrel cluster including a plurality of barrels extending forward from the rotor assembly;
- one or more vents providing a path for expulsion away from the rotor assembly of gases emanating from a cartridge chambered in one of the plurality of barrels;
- a motor configured to rotate the rotor assembly,
- a motor housing, and
- a rotor lock mechanism configured to lock the rotor assembly directly to the motor housing, preventing rotation of the barrel cluster.
A machine gun comprising:
- a gun housing;
- a rotor assembly positioned within the gun housing;
- a barrel cluster including a plurality of barrels extending forward from the rotor assembly;
- one or more vents providing a path for expulsion away from the rotor assembly of gases emanating from a cartridge chambered in one of the plurality of barrels;
- a feed mechanism with a feeder sprocket that is concentric to and rotates in an opposite direction of the barrel cluster so as to cause an inertial load of the feed mechanism to counteract an inertial load of the barrel cluster.
A machine gun comprising:
- a gun housing;
- a rotor assembly positioned within the gun housing;
- a barrel cluster including a plurality of barrels extending forward from the rotor assembly;
- one or more vents providing a path for expulsion away from the rotor assembly of gases emanating from a cartridge chambered in one of the plurality of barrels;
- a delinking and transfer mechanism including a non-rotating reciprocating delinking shuttle and a rotating barrel cam operably associated with the non-rotating reciprocating delinking shuttle to control linear movement of the non-rotating reciprocating delinking shuttle to delink and transfer each round.
A machine gun comprising:
- a gun housing;
- a rotor assembly positioned within the gun housing;
- a barrel cluster including a plurality of barrels extending forward from the rotor assembly;
- one or more vents providing a path for expulsion away from the rotor assembly of gases emanating from a cartridge chambered in one of the plurality of barrels;
- a self-contained hardware barrel clamp configured to prevent each barrel of the plurality of barrels from rotating about an axis thereof,
- wherein the barrel clamp includes a lock housing with a slot, a lock plunger, and a spring-loaded rotating barrel lock whereby the barrel clamp is removable from the barrel cluster by inserting a tool into the slot of the lock housing, applying a force to the lock plunger, rotating the spring-loaded rotating barrel lock, and sliding the barrel clamp off the barrel cluster.
A machine gun comprising:
- a gun housing;
- a rotor assembly positioned within the gun housing;
- a barrel cluster including a plurality of barrels extending forward from the rotor assembly;
- one or more vents providing a path for expulsion away from the rotor assembly of gases emanating from a cartridge chambered in one of the plurality of barrels;
- further including a feed mechanism with a feed mechanism housing configured to allow for a single feed inlet location of multiple possible feed inlet locations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.