US 5,915,934 AGranted

Muzzleloading rifle and method and means for loading the same

AssigneeModern Muzzleloading, Inc.

InventorsWilliam A. Knight, L. Dale Watley

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Abstract

A muzzleloading rifle has a bolt with a laterally extending handle. The bolt is operationally connected to the cocking piece of the firearm by means of engaged cam surfaces of the bolt and the cocking piece which will permit the rifle to be cocked only by moving the bolt handle in an upwardly and rotational motion without any longitudinal movement of the bolt towards the cocking piece. After the firearm has been loaded by means of depositing a disc element with a primer element in the center bore thereof in the breech opening of the firearm, the firearm is placed in a firing condition by reversing rotational motion of the bolt handle. The disc element has a center bore which is adapted to receive a conventional nipple and a percussion cap, or in lieu thereof, and preferably, a shot gun primer. The latter is preferred in that it provides a hotter and more intense ignition of the gun powder in the muzzleloading rifle art. A method of loading a muzzleloading rifle involves the steps of cocking the firearm and loading the firearm with the disc elements as described heretofore.

Claims4

Dependent claims

A firearm, comprising,

an elongated barrel having a rearward end,
a receiver at the rearward end having a breech opening in alignment with said barrel for receiving a rifle firing element thereof,
a bolt having a longitudinal axis rotatably mounted on said firearm rearwardly of said breech opening,
a spring loaded striker pin in said bolt,
a cocking piece assembly on said rifle in operational engagement with said striker pin,
cam surfaces on said bolt and said cocking piece assembly in engagement with each other and being shaped so that only rotation of said bolt from a first rotational position about its longitudinal axis to a second rotational position will cock said cocking piece to move said striker pin into a firing position,
said firing element having a removable disc element mounted in a breech opening in said receiver and having a central bore in alignment with a center axis of said barrel, and a primer element in said bore in alignment with a forward end of said striker pin to be forcibly engaged thereby upon said rifle being fired;
and
a cam assembly being connected to said receiver and said bolt so that when said bolt is rotated from said second rotational position to said first rotational position, said bolt is cammed longitudinally forwardly a small increment of distance to tightly compress said disc element tightly against a forward vertical surface in said breech opening.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/971,858Filed 17 Nov 1997 · continuation
Priority: 16 Oct 1996
Granted: 29 Jun 1999
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

F41A 3/18
The locking elements effecting a rotary movement about the barrel axis, e.g. rotating cylinder bolt locks: hand-operated
F41A 19/57
Firing or trigger mechanisms; Cocking mechanisms: firing mechanisms operating with primer cartridge
F41C 9/08
Other smallarms, e.g. hidden smallarms or smallarms specially adapted for underwater use: muzzle-loading smallarms; Smallarms with flintlock…
F41A
Functional features or details common to both smallarms and ordnance