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US 12,427,799 B2Granted
Method and item for indentifying serialized parts
AssigneeSilencerCo Weapons Research, LLC
InventorsCasey Brandol, Jacob Turnblom, Jared Hansen, James Torgersen, Joshua Sensinger
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Abstract
Serialized firearm parts, such as silencers, are identified using plates permanently affixed to the parts by welding, brazing, riveting, pinning and welding or other permanent techniques. Methods of effecting repair or replacement of silencers and silencer parts employ removing the plates by drilling or machining the welds and permanently affixing the plate to a replacement part.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- inlaying a plate bearing an engraved serial number in a recessed portion of an outer surface of an essential part of a silencer, wherein an interior surface of the plate follows a first arc, wherein the outer surface of the essential part follows a second arc, and wherein the first arc and the second arc are concentric when the plate is inlaid on the recessed portion;
- and
- permanently affixing the plate to the recessed portion.
A silencer, comprising:
- an essential part comprising an outer surface having a recessed portion;
- and
- a plate bearing an engraved serial number, wherein the plate is inlaid and permanently affixed to the recessed portion, wherein an interior surface of the plate follows a first arc, and wherein the outer surface of the essential part follows a second arc that is substantially concentric with the first arc.
A method, comprising:
- receiving an essential part of a silencer, wherein:
- a plate bearing an engraved serial number is inlaid and permanently affixed to a recessed portion of an outer surface of the essential part,
- an interior surface of the plate follows a first arc, and
- the outer surface of the essential part follows a second arc that is concentric with the first arc;
- removing the plate from the essential part;
- and
- permanently affixing the plate to a replacement essential part.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.