Muzzle venting in muzzleloading rifles
OwnerRoger J. Rennerinventor
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Abstract
A muzzle-loading rifle having vents cut into the barrel near its muzzle. The rifling is timed with respect to the placement of the vents such that all vents are located within the rifling grooves. Depending on the number and size of the vents, the rifling grooves may be relatively wide and the rifling twist relatively slow to ensure that all vents remain in the rifling grooves.
Claims20
A muzzleloading rifle, comprising:
- a barrel having a breech end and a muzzle end and defining a substantially cylindrical bore therebetween, said barrel having spiral rifling within said bore comprising a plurality of alternating lands and grooves, said barrel further defining a first vent through said barrel in communication with said bore, wherein said first vent enters said bore entirely within one of said grooves;
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- an ignition mechanism adapted to ignite a charge within said bore of said barrel.
A barrel for a muzzleloading rifle, comprising an elongate rod having a breech end and a muzzle end and defining a substantially cylindrical bore therebetween, said barrel having spiral rifling within said bore comprising a plurality of alternating lands and grooves, said barrel further defining a first vent through said barrel in communication with said bore, wherein said first vent enters said bore entirely within one of said grooves.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.