Apr 22, 2025
The present disclosure comprises an evaporative cooling assembly ( 200 ) for cooling an apparatus ( 220 ), and a method for cooling an apparatus ( 220 ). The evaporative cooling assembly comprises a refrigerant tank ( 202 ), the refrigerant tank ( 202 ) containing refrigerant ( 204 ). The apparatus also comprises a first evaporator ( 210 ) configured to be positioned proximal to the apparatus ( 220 ), and a second evaporator ( 216 ) positioned to cool the refrigerant tank ( 202 ). Each of the first evaporator ( 210 ) and the second evaporator ( 216 ) are in fluid communication with the refrigerant tank ( 202 ), and the second evaporator ( 216 ) is positioned downstream of the first evaporator ( 210 ). The method for cooling a heated apparatus ( 220 ) comprises passing a refrigerant ( 204 ) from a refrigerant tank ( 202 ) to a first evaporator ( 210 ), which is located proximal to the apparatus ( 220 ). At least part of the refrigerant is evaporated, and then passed to a second evaporator ( 216 ), which is positioned to cool the refrigerant tank ( 202 ).
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Apr 15, 2025
Concealed carry bib-overalls for providing concealed pockets for placing firearms for concealed carry transport. The concealed carry bib-overalls may comprise a pair of overalls and one or more concealed pockets. The pair of overalls may be a garment comprising a bib which is adapted to extend vertically in front of a user's abdomen. The bib may be held upright by suspenders. The suspenders may be adapted to couple to the top of the bib after passing over a user's shoulders. The concealed pockets may be located on the rear of the bib where the concealed pockets may be hidden from view. The one or more concealed pockets may be adapted to conceal a handgun. A user may produce the handgun from within the concealed pockets by releasing a gap fastener and extracting the handgun through one or more access gaps.
Apr 15, 2025
The disclosed apparatus, system and method includes at least a protective garment that prevents concussive effects on internal organs. The garment many include a garment body; and, embedded in the garment body, at least one multi-sectional pad. At least two of the multi-sections may comprise: at least one aramid layer; at least one multi-durometer foam layer having a substantially similar surface area to that provided by the at least one aramid layer; and at least one shield layer.
Apr 15, 2025
A trigger mechanism that can be used in AR-pattern firearms has a hammer, a trigger member, a disconnector, a locking member, and a “three position” safety selector having safe, standard semi-automatic, and forced reset semi-automatic positions. In the standard semi-automatic position, rearward movement of the bolt carrier causes rearward pivoting of the hammer such that the disconnector hook catches the hammer hook, at which time a user must manually release the trigger member to free the hammer from the disconnector to permit the hammer and trigger member to pivot to the set positions so that the user can pull the trigger member to fire the firearm. In the forced reset semi-automatic position, rearward movement of the bolt carrier causes rearward pivoting of the hammer causing the trigger member to be forced to the set position, the safety selector preventing the disconnector hook from catching the hammer hook, and thereafter when the bolt carrier reaches the substantially in-battery position the user can pull the trigger member to fire the firearm without manually releasing the trigger member. The locking member is pivotable between a first position at which the locking member mechanically blocks the trigger member from moving to the released position and a second position at which the locking member does not mechanically block the trigger member allowing the trigger member to be moved to the released position. The locking member is spring biased toward the first position and moved against the spring bias to the second position by contact from the bolt carrier during forward movement of the bolt carrier as the bolt carrier reaches a substantially in-battery position.
Apr 15, 2025
With respect to an unprecedented process of preparation of inorganic fluorescent markers under the action of infrared light, for identification and marking, by a specific insertion process, in explosives, fuses, ammunition after detonation, as well as the identification and marking of steel and metal alloys of firearms and metal projectiles an improvement includes the physical insertion of the markers in the channel and in the crucible of the pig iron production process; in this improved process, marking was carried out in the ratio of 1 part of the marker to 1,325,750 parts per mass of pig iron.
Apr 15, 2025
The tire spiker is a L-shaped device deployable to a U-shaped deployed configuration having a first and second spike portion adapted to surround a tire on the front and back with a plurality of spikes held in a generally vertical disposition adjacent the tire tread. The tire spiker comprises a pair of L-shaped arms pivotally connected at one end to open to a U-shaped deployed configuration. Each of the L-shaped arms comprises a spacer and a spike portion. The spacers are hinged together. Each spike portion is on a respective spacer in a generally perpendicular disposition. Each spike portion comprises a spike side and a road side. Some of the plurality of spikes and a plurality of spike chambers are disposed in the road side of each spike portion. The spike chambers are adapted to receive a respective spike from the other spike portion in the carry configuration.
Apr 15, 2025
An initiator circuit for a perforating gun includes a microprocessor structured to perform a circuit-startup algorithm comprising determining whether the circuit supply voltage is stable enough for operation and, if it is, or if a predetermined period of time has passed since powering up the circuit, sending a message indicating the circuit (and thus gun) is ready for operation. The sent message may be a communication uplink indicating an address of the circuit and its ready state or a short burst of pulses indicating the circuit's ready state.
Apr 15, 2025
An accessory or gun-mounted support stand apparatus including a release mechanism and locking mechanism configured to allow or prevent longitudinal movement of telescoping legs.
Apr 15, 2025
Embodiments described herein relate to suppressors for reducing or eliminating sound, flash, and/or heat generated by firearms while discharging projectiles. The suppressor includes a unitary structure containing a cone shaped nozzle disposed at one end of a body. The body has a plurality of baffles surrounding a central bore, a breech end opposite a faceplate, and a plurality of cooling channels spanning a length of the body. Each cooling channel has a first opening at the breech end and a second opening at the faceplate. The unitary structure further contains an outer ring spanning from the breech end to at least the faceplate, a longitudinal wall spanning from the breech end to the faceplate, and a plurality of radially oriented walls extending between the longitudinal wall and the outer ring. The plurality of cooling channels is disposed between the longitudinal wall, the outer ring, and the radially oriented walls.
Apr 15, 2025
A firearm accessory may include an elongate body having an end that is positioned adjacent to a firing end of a barrel of a firearm. The firearm accessory may also include a piston assembly that is located at least partially within the elongate body. A first end of the piston assembly may be configured to be secured to the barrel of the firearm. The piston assembly may also include an indexing ring positioned at a second end of the piston assembly. The elongate body and the piston assembly may be rotatable relative to one another about a longitudinal axis that extends from the first end of the piston assembly to the second end of the piston assembly. The firearm accessory may also include an orientation assembly that includes a pawl and a selector component for selectively disengaging the pawl with the indexing ring of the piston assembly.
Apr 15, 2025
Methods and systems are provided for firearm muzzle brakes. In one example, a muzzle brake comprises: a body; a projectile entrance and a projectile exit; a gas-actuated valve biased toward the projectile entrance within an interior of the body; and a projectile opening of the gas-actuated valve arranged along a projectile path between the projectile entrance and the projectile exit.
Apr 15, 2025
An upper receiver assembly for a firearm having an upper receiver with an integral barrel nut, a handguard assembly and a barrel nut assembly with a barrel and lock nut is provided. The barrel is received by the upper receiver and is secured directly to the upper receiver using the lock nut. The upper receiver also includes an integral handguard mounting member to which the handguard assembly may be directly attached. The upper receiver assembly allows the user to attach both the barrel and handguard assemblies directly to the upper receiver, independently of one another.
Apr 15, 2025
A weapon system training and firing aid comprising a shoulder bar attachment for elevating and/or traversing a weapon system is disclosed. It may have an elongate arm for attachment to the weapon system and extending in a generally rearward direction from the weapon system. Once coupled to a weapon system, it gives a user a stable method of supporting and moving the weapon system, allowing the user to quickly elevate and traverse the weapon system by giving the user an additional point of contact, for example at the shoulder or under the arm, to support and stabilize the weapon system.
Apr 15, 2025
A breech release for a shotgun includes a push button, a return spring, a spring retainer, a threaded steel rod, and a release slide. the return spring is located between the push button and spring retainer. when the breech release engages with a breech, the breech release bisects an outer breech which hinged an inner breech, holding the breech closed in its default position. When the button is depressed, the button moves the slide out of the inner breech, allowing the breech to open.
Apr 15, 2025
A device for holding and loading shotgun shells is provided. The device includes a resilient pad having a front side with a pair of openings for receiving, retaining, and releasing a pair of shells into the barrel of a shotgun. The openings include a plurality of expansion joints to assist with the loading and unloading of shells into a gun. An annular groove extends around a base of each opening for resiliently and frictionally retaining the rim of a shell therein. An opposing end of the pad includes a laterally projecting tab portion formed with an aperture therethrough for a user of the holding device to manually grasp and manipulate said device. The expansion joints and material of the pad facilitate the insertion and release of the shells, whereas the groove and size of the openings serve to frictionally retain the shells within the device.
Apr 15, 2025
A loading device comprises a body having an upper portion and a lower portion, wherein the upper portion includes a plurality of circumferentially arranged sections, separated by a plurality of circumferentially arranged distribution walls; and the lower portion includes a central opening, which is symmetrical about a centerline and has an circumference around which a plurality of circumferentially arranged pellets queue tubes are configured to allow each of the queue tubes to receive pellets, via a top inlet connected to each of the circumferentially arranged sections of the upper portion.
Apr 15, 2025
A toy gun and a gas cylinder piercing structure are provided. The gas cylinder piercing structure includes a screw base and a movable push rod unit. The screw base includes a circular through-hole and an annular block around it. A top of the annular block has a slot. The movable push rod unit includes a round push rod movably inserted in the circular through-hole, and a return spring between the screw base and the round push round. A top of the round push rod has a striker pin. The striker pin extends with a needle portion. The striker pin has an engagement lug and a notch. When the engagement lug is blocked by the annular block, the round push rod completely fills the circular through-hole. When the engagement lug is engaged with the slot, the notch and the circular through-hole together form an air vent channel.
Apr 15, 2025
Automatically-reloading air guns and methods associated therewith. The automatically-reloading air gun includes a barrel fixedly carried by a frame, and a vent aperture in fluid communication with a firing chamber. Actuation of a release mechanism from an engaged position to a disengaged position allows a charge of compressed gas to slide a firing piston forward to force a projectile in the firing chamber into the breach end of the barrel. The compressed gas can exhaust out of the vent aperture from the firing chamber when the firing piston is in the extended position. The return spring slides the firing piston rearwardly to the retracted position after the compressed gas has exhausted from the firing chamber to automatically reload a new projectile into the firing chamber.
Apr 15, 2025
A breaching system for a primary weapon includes a breaching tool secured at a point below said barrel. The breaching tool may include an exterior sleeve portion that is slidable towards a butt-end of the weapon for firing the breaching tool.
Apr 15, 2025
A firearm holster has an outer wall, extending between a muzzle end and a breech end, defining a cavity configured to receive a firearm. A magnet and/or magnet assembly may be included, wherein the magnet is at least partly in the cavity at the muzzle end. The magnet assembly is coupled to the muzzle end and includes a magnet housing coupled to the outer wall and connected to the magnet. The holster may include a protruding wedge on a side panel of the outer wall, wherein the protruding wedge comprises a surface formed at an angle from the longitudinal holster axis. The wedge presses against a user's body to help alleviate the holster sagging. The holster may also have a spacer assembly, a portion of which can be configured to press against a user's body to achieve a desired resting angle of the holster.
Apr 15, 2025
An aiming device is provided including an illumination device and an optical element wherein the illumination device projects a primary dot and at least one secondary alignment dot distal from the primary dot to aid a user in obtaining a view of the primary dot when the aiming device is in an aligned mode, the primary dot is visible within a field of view of the user, but the secondary alignment dot is not visible. When the aiming device is in a misaligned mode, the secondary alignment dot is visible to the user, but the primary dot is not. The secondary alignment dot provides instruction to the user to realign the aiming device relative to the field of view of the user so that the aiming device transitions to the aligned mode. A related method of operation is provided.
Apr 15, 2025
An optical sight includes a housing and an optical element supported by the housing. The housing includes a first surface defining a cavity accessible from a first cavity side of the housing and a bottom side of the housing and an opening extending along a longitudinal axis of the housing. The first surface is configured such that the first cavity is inaccessible from above. The first cavity is configured to accommodate a first fastener such that a head of the first fastener is supported by the first surface and such that a shaft of the first fastener extends through the bottom side of the housing. The optical element is disposed within the opening of the housing.
Apr 15, 2025
A bullet tracking system comprising a sensor sub-system that generates bullet tracking data by tracking a position and range of a bullet discharged from a remote-controlled weapon and traveling to an intended target; a processor that processes the bullet tracking data to determine aim adjustments of the weapon for subsequent firing of bullets to compensate for tracked bullet ballistics to improve an accuracy of the bullets for reaching the intended target; and a control sub-system to make the aim adjustments of the weapon.
Apr 15, 2025
An apparatus, for use with a projectile launching device, includes the sight, including a viewfinder that permits a user to view an image of a target in association with a reticle, a digital image system for capturing images of the target, multiple sensors to detect a firing time the apparatus for capturing multiple first images at or close to said firing time, wherein an image processor compares images captured after said firing time with said multiple first images, and to identify an indication of a projectile impact on said target, the apparatus being configured to capture multiple second images after said firing time and including said projectile impact indication, and wherein the apparatus includes a reticle adjuster to automatically position the reticle in the viewfinder in accordance with comparison between first images and second images and the associated positions of the reticle and the projectile impact indication.
Apr 15, 2025
Shooting scopes displaying virtual shooting targets are envisaged. When a virtual shooting target is visualized and shot using the shooting scope attached to a firearm, a pre-programmed computer-based processing element cooperating with the shooting scope determines a theoretical gunshot trajectory based on the position and orientation of the firearm. The processing element correlates the theoretical gunshot trajectory with the information indicative of the positioning of the virtual shooting target and thereby determines the accuracy with which the virtual gunshot was fired. The processing element also determines the shooter's consistency based on the proximity between the points of impact for a predetermined number of shots fired by the shooter and the center of the virtual shooting target. Based on the shooter's accuracy and consistency, the complexity associated with the virtual shooting targets are varied, and such virtual shooting targets having varying complexities are presented to the shooter for target shooting practice.
Apr 15, 2025
An archery target launching device is described. Embodiments of the archery target launching device can include a frame and a launch assembly. The frame can allow for the target launching device to be implemented in a vertical orientation and a horizontal orientation. In the horizontal orientation, the frame can rotate approximately 110 degrees to provide a variety of launch angles. In the vertical orientation, a plurality of legs of the frame can be implemented to alter a launch angle.
Apr 15, 2025
A body spin detection device for a projectile, the device including a perturbing element and a detection element electrically connected to detection circuitry in the projectile. The detection circuitry configured to receive, via the detection element, a first and second input signals and determine that the first input signal is different from the second input signal based on signal characteristics for the first and second input signals. The detection circuitry is further configured to determine a spin rate for at least one of the despun control portion and the chassis by determining a time period between receiving the first input signal and the second input signal.
Apr 15, 2025
A method is provided for producing a warhead component including an inner shell. The method includes arranging a first casing of a thermoplastic to enclose the inner shell, arranging pre-formed projectiles between the first casing of thermoplastic and the inner shell, and heat-treating the first casing so that the first casing shrinks and fixes the pre-formed projectiles to the inner shell. A warhead, a projectile, and a bomb are also provided.
Apr 15, 2025
Disclosed is a tool for applying torque to an object, the tool comprising: a frame for clamping to the object to which torque is to be applied, the frame comprising a pair of jaws with an adjustable separation therebetween, and an adjuster mechanism to adjust the separation between the jaws; at least one thruster disposed on opposite sides of an intended axis of rotation of the frame, respective thrusters providing thrust in opposite directions, so as to cooperate and generate torque on the frame; characterised in that a displaceable mass is provided within a barrel extending from at least one of said thrusters, which mass is displaced by the thruster upon actuation, so as to increase the recoil, and hence the torque, experienced by the frame upon actuation of the thruster.
Apr 15, 2025
A multi-compartment mortar increment container (MIC) enables burning of two propellants to broaden the pressure-time curve providing additional energy and force behind a mortar shell while maintaining allowable pressures. During the ballistic cycle, the mortar increment container burns allowing the faster propellant to mix with the slower propellant. The slower propellant will burn later in the ballistic cycle generating higher pressure behind the projectile leading to higher velocity.
Apr 15, 2025
A detonator connector having a leg wire locking structure is proposed. The detonator connector includes an upper casing member for opening and closing a lower casing member having a wiring bracket member positioned therein and into which a leg wire of a detonator or a bus wire is inserted, and between the wiring bracket member and an leg wire entrance of the lower casing member, a leg wire position locking part for fixing a position of the leg wire by elastically catching and pressurizing the leg wire inserted into the lower casing member is positioned, so as to enable resiliently locking and fixing the position of a double-coated wire or single-coated wire, which are used as the leg wire, at an entrance side and to stably maintain an internal connection state, thereby securing connection stability and connection reliability between the leg wire and the bus wire.
Apr 15, 2025
Provided are various mounts, firearms, firearm components, and associated elements and methods. A mount for an at least partially curved body surface may include at least one body defining a clamping portion and a component portion connected to the clamping portion, and a level vial engaged with the component portion of the at least one body. The clamping portion may be configured to engage and secure the mount to the at least partially curved body surface, and the clamping portion may define at least two tangent contact surfaces configured to engage the at least partially curved body surface to secure the mount to the at least partially curved body surface.
Apr 15, 2025
A safety system for an object having a transmitter that comprises a microcontroller to generate an identification signal having a given frequency and a resonant circuit to amplify the signal. The transmitter is suitable to be placed in the vicinity of the body of a person to capacitively couple the identification signal to it. The safety system also comprises a receiver suitable to be capacitively coupled to the body in order to receive the first identification signal and to recognize based on the identification signal if a user is an authorized user. The safety system estimates the actual resonant frequency of the resonant circuit when the circuit is amplifying the signal and the microcontroller is adapted to choose as frequency for the identification signal the closest frequency to the estimated actual resonant circuit it can generate so that the amplification of the identification signal is maximized.
Apr 15, 2025
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for automated camera activation are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, from a sensor, sensor data. The actions further include, based on the sensor data, determining that a firearm has been removed from a holster. The actions further include, based on determining that the firearm has been removed from the holster, generating a software-recognized event that indicates the firearm has been removed from the holster. The actions further include, in response to the software-recognized event that indicates the firearm has been removed from the holster, generating an instruction for a camera to record. The actions further include providing, for output, the instruction for the camera to record.
Apr 15, 2025
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing a weapon manager are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of determining, by the server, that the weapon is in a particular location. The actions further include determining, by the server, a projected travel path of the weapon. The actions further include, based on determining that the weapon is in a particular location and the projected travel path of the weapon, generating, by the server, an instruction to disable the weapon. The actions further include providing, for output to the weapon, the instruction to disable the weapon.
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