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US 5,325,759 AGranted
Flash suppressor
OwnerJoseph G. Warner, Paul A. Petrovichinventors
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Abstract
Disclosed is a flash suppressor for guns which controlledly vents ignited high pressure gas exiting a gun muzzle. The gas is vented essentially radially outward through coils or rings of the suppressor in a 360 flow degree pattern away from a longitudinal axis of the suppressor.
Claims4
A flash suppressor for a rifled gun comprising:
- means for attaching the suppressor to a barrel of the gun;
- a longitudinal axis of the barrel and suppressor;
- bisector planes containing the axis;
- rings disposed along the longitudinal axis;
- means for compensating for force on the barrel radially away from the axis when the gun is fired, the compensating means having a set of elongate members parallel to the longitudinal axis connecting the rings;
- wherein a first elongate member is more angularly remote from a second elongate member than is a third elongate member and the set of the elongate members is bilaterally symmetric with respect to no more than one of the planes.
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A flash suppressor comprising:
- means for attaching the suppressor to a barrel of the gun;
- a longitudinal axis of the suppressor;
- two series of rings axially disposed along the longitudinal axis, the rings of a first series axially alternated with rings of a second series, the rings of the first series disposed more radially inward than the rings of the second series, the rings of the first and second series having cross-sectionally triangular shapes wherein one corner of each triangular shape is oriented radially inward;
- means for compensating for force on the barrel radially away from the axis when the gun is fired, the compensating means having a set of elongate members parallel to the longitudinal axis connecting the rings.
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A flash suppressor for a gun comprising:
- means for attaching the suppressor to a barrel of the gun;
- a longitudinal axis of the suppressor;
- a series of rings disposed along the longitudinal axis;
- means along the axis for connecting the rings together;
- wherein the rings define a first set of gaps, the rings defined a second set of gaps alternated with the first set of gaps, the gaps of the first set are curved and the gaps of the second set are straight.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.