Dart gun
AssigneeBlackpowder Products, Inc.
InventorsMark D. Hendricks, Larry N. Treadway
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Abstract
A dart gun for medicating or tranquilizing animals, which includes a barrel and a breech plug, the barrel including a bore defining a longitudinal axis extending from a muzzle end to a breech end, and the breech end including a breech plug chamber and a notch. The breech plug is removably engageable with the breech plug chamber and includes a plug member, an extractor, and a baffle member. The extractor provides convenient loading, firing and ejecting of a blank firing cartridge that is used to fire the dart from the barrel. The baffle rod provides for muffling the sound of the explosion of the blank firing cartridge, and reduces the amount of heat and flames that are exposed to the dart when firing the blank firing cartridge.
Claims10
A dart gun comprising:
- a barrel comprising a bore defining a longitudinal axis extending from a muzzle end to a breech end, the breech end comprising a breech adapter receiving chamber;
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- a breech adapter for removable engagement with the breech adapter receiving chamber, the breech adapter comprising:
- a plug comprising a first chamber portion at a proximal side thereof for receiving a cartridge, and a second chamber portion at a distal side thereof for delivering a propellant charge from the cartridge to the barrel;
- an extractor movable between a first position wherein the cartridge is engaged with the extractor and seated in the first chamber portion of the plug, and a second position wherein the cartridge is engaged with the extractor and retracted out of the first chamber portion of the plug;
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- a baffle member extending from the distal side of the plug.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.