Rifle gun barrel cleaner

An apparatus for cleaning a gun barrel, said apparatus comprising:

• a tubular casing having a first opened end covered with a removable cap, a second opened end in which a cylindrical member is integrally fixed, and a receiving chamber defined between said cap and said cylindrical member, said cylindrical member having a threaded central bore formed therein which opens to said second end of said tubular casing;
• a connecting means which includes a sleeve having a threaded outer surface for being threaded into said threaded central bore;
• a cleaning rod having a plurality of sections detachably connected with one another, said cleaning rod detachably engaged with said connecting means at one end thereof, wherein said cleaning rod is inserted into one end of said sleeve at the end of said cleaning rod on which a threaded bore is formed, the other end of said sleeve having a counter bore in which a screw is mounted so as to be threaded into said threaded bore at the end of said cleaning rod and enable said cleaning rod to engage with said sleeve, and one of said sections of said cleaning rod, which is connected with said sleeve, has two oppositely threaded bores, each of the remaining sections of said cleaning rod having a threaded insert end and an oppositely threaded bore, said sections of said cleaning rod being interconnected by the interengagement of said threaded bores and said threaded insert ends;
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• cleaning members for wiping off dirt and powder attached to the inner surface of the gun barrel, said cleaning members being selectively and detachably connected to the other end of said cleaning rod;
• whereby said apparatus can be dismantled and said connecting means, said cleaning rod and said cleaning members can be stored in said receiving chamber of said tubular casing after use.