Firearms – Stock or barrel connectors – Barrel to receiver
Patent
1990-10-30
1993-07-20
Carone, Michael J.
Firearms
Stock or barrel connectors
Barrel to receiver
42 77, F41A 2148, F41A 1102
Patent
active
052288870
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
DESCRIPTION
The invention refers to a firearm, especially a hunting rifle with exchangeable barrel of the type having exchangeable barrel and cylinder breech.
Recently, there is an increasing demand on available weapons to be more versatile and customized for the hunter in order to satisfy the variety of hunting needs, especially in view of increased prosperity of the hunting consumer and an increase of hunting trips abroad where the hunting terrain and game varies considerably from the domestic hunting. To adapt to these different conditions, on the one hand, weapons are desired for very different types of ammunition and calibers, including especially high-power repeating rifles for magnum calibers for extreme hunting, and, on the other hand, different types of weapons within one and the same caliber, such as conventional repeating rifles of long design, repeating rifles of short design and high-power single firearms also of short design. To acquire and to make available for each of these applications a suitable complete weapon is not only very inconvenient for the hunter and unrealistic when going on hunting trips but would also require the making of an immeasurably great number of various types of weapons which frequently are produced only in smallest numbers. A solution of these problems are modular weapon systems in which a stock including a breech mechanism is selectively provided with exchangeable barrels for different ammunition calibers. In this manner, the hunter is able to assemble a weapon suitable for the existing hunting conditions or to subsequently reassemble the weapon according to varying demands.
However, existing systems for hunting rifles with exchangeable barrel have various drawbacks. On the one hand, the connection of the exchangeable barrel to the stock is either not sufficiently precise or is attained only at impairment of the vibration behavior of the barrel, and, on the other hand, although various barrels can be combined with one and the same stock, one and the same barrel cannot be combined with different stocks, e.g. repeating rifle systems of varying overall length, so that the versatility attainable in principle with a modular system is not fully exhausted.
The invention is based on the object to create a firearm of the above-mentioned type, especially in form of a hunting rifle, which can be assembled in form of a modular system in a number of weapon types with varying barrel and breech mechanism for various types of ammunition and types of caliber, whereby the coupling of the barrel to the stock is accomplished at high precision without impairing the vibration behavior of the barrel so as to attain a reproducible target area upon exchange of the barrel, and whereby a breech is realized which is suitable for various repeating rifle systems and includes a guidance accommodated in space-saving manner.
The object is attained in accordance with the invention by defining the coupling element of the barrel as a positioning rail which parallels the barrel and has a rearward part fixedly secured to the barrel in the area of the cartridge chamber and a forward part extending without contacting the barrel, by defining the coupling element of the stock as a mounting tongue which extends over the length of the positioning rail and includes at least at its forward and rearward ends fastening elements which interlock with the positioning rail, and by arranging the guide means for the breechblock below the barrel in the area of the mounting tongue. The dependent claims refer to further advantageous embodiments of the weapon and modular system, respectively, in accordance with the invention.
Embodiments of the invention will now be described in more detail with reference to the drawings in which:
FIG. 1 shows a partially sectional side view of a firearm in form of a short hunting rifle;
FIG. 2 shows a similar side view and sectional illustration of a firearm in form of a long repeating rifle;
FIG. 3 shows a side view of an exchangeable barrel with coupling rail;
FIGS. 4 and 5 show sectio
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Carone Michael J.
Feiereisen Henry M.
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