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US 2026/0146818 A1Published application
Blank firing adaptor cartridge chamber for firearms
OwnerGeorge L. Reynolds, S. Paul Reynoldsinventors
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Abstract
A training and testing blank firing adaptor cartridge chamber for certain large caliber firearms such as grenade machineguns is provided. The blank firing adaptor cartridge chamber utilizes smaller caliber, low-cost blanks as the powering source to achieve realistic operating mechanism functioning.
Claims20
A device for use in firing blank cartridges, the device comprising:
- a body extending between a forward end and a rearward end, the body including a chamber extending from the forward end to the rearward end, the chamber configured to receive a blank cartridge therein, the body including an annular space around the chamber at the rearward end;
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- a retainer at the rearward end of the chamber, the retainer being configured to radially outwardly expand into the annular space to accommodate insertion of the blank cartridge into the chamber through the retainer, the retainer being configured to elastically contract inwardly to engage a groove of the blank cartridge to retain the blank cartridge in the chamber.
A device for use in firing blank cartridges, the device comprising:
- a body extending between a forward end and a rearward end, the body including a chamber extending from the forward end to the rearward end, the chamber configured to receive a blank cartridge therein, wherein the body further includes an outer surface, the outer surface including a first link pocket, a second link pocket spaced circumferentially from the first link pocket, and a groove spaced axially from a rearward side of the first link pocket, the groove extending axially and circumferentially to a forward side of the second link pocket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.