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US 2014/0360070 A1Published application
Dart gun
AssigneeBlackpowder Products, Inc.
InventorsMark D. HENDRICKS, Larry N. TREADAWAY
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AssigneeBlackpowder Products, Inc.
InventorsMark D. HENDRICKS, Larry N. TREADAWAY
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A dart gun for medicating or tranquilizing animals, which includes a barrel and a breech plug, the barrel including a bore defining a longitudinal axis extending from a muzzle end to a breech end, and the breech end including a breech plug chamber and a notch. The breech plug is removably engageable with the breech plug chamber and includes a plug member, an extractor, and a baffle member. The extractor provides convenient loading, firing and ejecting of a blank firing cartridge that is used to fire the dart from the barrel. The baffle rod provides for muffling the sound of the explosion of the blank firing cartridge, and reduces the amount of heat and flames that are exposed to the dart when firing the blank firing cartridge.
A dart gun comprising:
A breech adapter for removable engagement with a barrel of a firearm to allow the firearm to fire a dart, the breach adaptor comprising a generally cylindrical body having a proximal end and a distal end, and defining a first chamber extending from the proximal end toward the distal end and a second chamber extending from the distal end toward the proximal end, the first and second chambers at least partially intersecting within the generally cylindrical body of the breech adaptor to allow fluid communication between the first and second chambers, the first chamber defining a first axis and the second chamber defining a second axis that is transversely offset by an offset distance from the first axis.
A breech adapter for removable engagement with a barrel of a firearm to allow the firearm to fire a dart, the breach adaptor comprising a first chamber for receiving a propellant cartridge, and an extractor movable between a first position allowing the propellant cartridge to be received in the first chamber and a second position extracting the propellant cartridge from the first chamber, the extractor comprising a body and a flange extending transversely from the body, wherein at least a portion of the body is positioned external of the breech adaptor, whereby engagement of the flange against the cartridge extracts the cartridge from the first chamber as the extractor moves toward its second position upon pressing the external portion of the body against a contact surface.
A breech adapter for removable engagement with a barrel of a firearm to allow the firearm to fire a dart, the breach adaptor comprising a proximal end and a distal end, the distal end configured to be received within a breech end of the barrel, the breech adaptor further comprising a baffle member extending from the distal end, the baffle member comprising a baffle rod and at least one baffle extending transversely from the baffle rod, each baffle having an edge defining a propellant passage between the baffle and a bore wall of the barrel when the breech adapter is installed in the firearm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.