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US 12,474,132 B2Granted
Enhanced bolt carrier assembly
OwnerKurt Andrew Kosmaninventor
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Abstract
A bolt carrier assembly having a bolt carrier with at least one gas exit hole located at the bottom of the bolt carrier so as to allow the passage of gas generated from a discharged round of ammunition downward into the magazine and magazine well of a firearm, away from the user.
Claims2
A breech bolt assembly comprising of:
- a bolt carrier being an elongated body having a top side and a bottom side, a left side and right side, and defining a bolt section, hammer section, and end section;
- said body having an exterior and a central bore along a central bore axis;
- said bolt section having a bolt head end, a bolt body section, and a bolt tail end section;
- the bolt body section defining a bolt body channel and a gas ring channel;
- the bolt tail end defining a boat tail channel and a carrier firing pin channel;
- the bolt body channel, gas ring channel, bolt tail channel, and carrier firing pin channel aligned along the central bore axis;
- a bottom side of the bolt section defining a left groove and a right groove with a boss in between, and at least one bottom gas channel traversing from an exterior to the central bore;
- where the bottom side of the bolt section has a bottom channel traversing from an exterior of the left groove to the bolt body channel, a bottom channel traversing from the an exterior of the left groove to the bolt tail channel, a bottom channel traversing from an exterior of the right groove to the bolt body channel, and a bottom channel traversing from an exterior of the right groove to the bolt tail channel;
- a bolt;
- and
- a carrier gas key.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.