Rifle handguard system with integrated barrel nut
OwnerRobert B. Daviesinventor
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Abstract
A handguard system for use on a rifle having a barrel and a receiver, the hand guard system includes a barrel nut having an inner surface with a threaded portion adapted to threadably engage the receiver for securing the barrel to the receiver and an outer surface, and a tubular handguard having an end. The tubular handguard is receivable about the barrel and is received about the barrel nut, engaging the outer surface thereof.
Claims18
A handguard system for use on a rifle having a barrel and a receiver, the hand guard system comprising:
- a barrel nut being a unitary element, having an inner surface with a threaded portion adapted to threadably engage the receiver for securing the barrel to the receiver and an outer surface;
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- a unitary tubular handguard having an end, the tubular handguard receivable about the barrel and received about the barrel nut, engaging the outer surface thereof.
A handguard system comprising:
- an upper receiver;
- a barrel having a base end and a muzzle end;
- a barrel nut having an inner surface with a threaded portion threadably engaging the receiver and securing the barrel to the receiver and an outer surface;
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- a unitary tubular handguard having an end, the tubular handguard encircling the barrel and received about the barrel nut with the end of the tubular handguard engaging the outer surface of the barrel nut.
A barrel nut for coupling a barrel to a receiver and receiving an end of a handguard having an inner surface, the barrel nut being a single unitary element comprising:
- an inner surface with a threaded portion adapted to threadably engage the receiver for securing the barrel to the receiver and an outer surface for engaging the inner surface of the end of the handguard;
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- a plurality of passages positioned around the periphery of the barrel nut and extending longitudinally therealong intermediate the inner surface and the outer surface for permitting the passage of an element of an operating system therethrough.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.