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AssigneePacific Aerospace & Electronics, Inc.
InventorsNelson Clare Settles, Shaun Michael McGuire
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Firearms and firearm components are constructed from bonded multi-metallic base materials comprising at least two dissimilar metallic materials having different properties, such as weight, density, wear resistance, durability, hardness, and the like, bonded to one another. The components are fabricated such that the metallic material having higher impact- and wear-resistance is positioned at areas that experience impact, or that include bearing points, wear points, and interfaces with other components, while a lighter weight metallic material is positioned at component locations that don't have rigorous material property requirements. The bonded multi-metallic materials may be explosively bonded multi-metallic materials.
A firearm component fabricated from a metallurgically bonded multi-metallic material substrate composed of at least three metallic layers joined at at least two bond zones, each of the bond zones being characterized by a metallurgical bond region, wherein at least two of the metallic layers have different properties, the at least two bond zones are fabricated using different metal bonding techniques, and a depth dimension (D) of each of the metallic layers forming the multi-metallic material substrate is equivalent to or slightly larger than a corresponding depth dimension of a finished firearm component.
A firearm frame component fabricated from a bonded multi-metallic material comprising a first metallic layer metallurgically bonded to a second, different and lighter weight metallic layer along a first metallurgical bond region and a third metallic layer metallurgically bonded the second metallic layer along a second metallurgical bond region, wherein the first metallurgical bond region is planar and is formed by a roll bonding technique and the second metallurgical bond region is formed by explosive bonding, and wherein the thickness of the third metallic layer is at least twice the thickness of the second, lighter weight metallic layer.
A firearm frame component fabricated from a bonded multi-metallic material comprising at least two metallic materials having different properties metallurgically bonded to one another in a metallurgical bond region, wherein the metallurgical bond region is planar and is oriented horizontally when the firearm frame component is assembled in a firearm, wherein the a first metallic material has higher strength properties than a second metallic material and the second metallic material has lower weight properties than the first metallic material, and wherein the first metallic material is arranged at a portion of the firearm component that requires a higher strength material.
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