Firearms – Stocks – For pistols
Patent
1996-08-30
1998-08-25
Johnson, Stephen M.
Firearms
Stocks
For pistols
F41C 2310
Patent
active
057972079
ABSTRACT:
An improved gun grip panel includes two pieces of a carbon, kevlar or carbon/kevlar mix material separated by a spacer. This material and spacer are encapsulated in a clear resin. The combination of strong, lightweight woven material and resin provide improved strength and resiliency to the gun grip panel without disadvantageously increasing the panel's weight. The clarity of the resin allows the woven material to be visible through the resin, giving the gun grip panel an ornamental appearance. Also, the gun grip panel may be textured to improve the grip of the user of the handgun. The inventive method of manufacturing the improved gun grip panel includes cutting a pair of gun-grip-panel-sized inserts from the woven material. The two pieces of material, with the spacer between them, is positioned to cover the bottom of a silicone mold. The silicone mold is then sandwiched between a pair of rigid plexiglass sheets, and the combination is placed in a chamber. Inlet tubes from a reservoir located outside the chamber are attached to inlet ports on the lower plexiglass sheet and overflow tubes, each having an overflow bowl, are placed on the upper plexiglass sheet. The mold is then filled with a quantity of de-gassed resin by drawing a vacuum in the chamber. Once the mold is filled, the inlet tubes are clamped off, stopping the flow of resin and causing the vacuum to draw any air bubbles out of the resin. The chamber is then pressurized to force the resin in the overflow bowl back into the mold. This pressure is maintained until the resin hardens, and the gun grip panel is removed from the mold.
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