Stabilizing vent system for gun barrels

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1979-08-13

1982-04-06

Bentley, Stephen C.

Ordnance

Barrels

Lining, rifling, or making

F41C 2118

Patent

active

043229999

ABSTRACT:
The vent system for reducing the recoil, jump, blast, noise and flash of a discharging firearm includes: a plurality of sets of forwardly directed longitudinally aligned vents disposed equiangularly about in the barrel to discharge a portion of the propellant gases laterally and forwardly; annular equalizing chambers interconnecting a vent of one set of vents with a corresponding vent in each of the other sets of vents; a longitudinal flute diametrically opposed to each set of vents and interconnecting the equalizing chambers; and, a set of generally upwardly directed thrust orifices interconnecting with selected ones of the equalizing chambers.

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patent: 3368453 (1968-02-01), Shaw
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Thomas J. Hayes, Elements of Ordnance, 1938, pp. 199-200.

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