Gun barrel cleaning rod and method
AssigneeHughes Products Company, Inc.
InventorJeffrey T. Hughes
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Abstract
A lightweight, portable polymeric gun cleaning rod and method is provided for use having various implements such as brushes, jags, and the like. The cleaning rod shaft is formed from a polymeric composition such as nylon which can be manually worked through the gun barrel during cleaning. A fitting is attached at one end of the shaft for convenient, threadable reception of cleaning implements. After use the cleaning implements can be easily removed and the cleaning rod shaft manually coiled for compact storage.
Claims20
A gun barrel cleaning rod comprising:
- a coilable, uniformly flexible, wholly polymeric shaft, and a cleaning implement, said cleaning implement affixed to said polymeric shaft, said polymeric shaft having rigidity sufficient to overcome compression forces encountered while said cleaning implement is urged tightly through said gun barrel.
A gun barrel cleaning rod comprising:
- (a) a Uniformly coilable shaft, said coilable shaft consisting of a single wholly polymeric cylindrically-shaped shaft;
- (b) a rigid fitting, said fitting attached to one end of said coilable shaft;
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- (c) a cleaning implement, said cleaning implement releasably affixed to said fitting for passing through a gun barrel, said coilable shaft having rigidity sufficient to overcome compression forces encountered while said cleaning implement is urged tightly through said gun barrel.
A method of cleaning a gun barrel with a uniformly flexible, wholly polymeric cleaning rod shaft having rigidity sufficient to overcome compression forces encountered while a cleaning implement attached to said rod is urged tightly through said gun barrel, comprising the steps of:
- (a) uniformly uncoiling the cleaning rod shaft into a suitably linear form,
- (b) passing the cleaning rod shaft through the gun barrel to remove debris therefrom, and
- (c) thereafter removing the cleaning rod shaft from the gun barrel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.