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Self-contained blowback-type firing unit

US4649800A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMay 24, 1985
Grant dateMar 17, 1987
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Expiry dateMay 24, 2005

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF41A3/54
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A self-contained blowback-type firing unit insertable in a gun body as a discrete subassembly and including a barrel and bolt with a compression spring acting between them, characterized in that the barrel and bolt slide together on matching longitudinal track surfaces which are other than cylindrical and circumferentially complete, the bolt being slideable on no surfaces other than the barrel track surfaces.

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