WO1998041809A1 - Mecanisme de positionnement du canon d'armes a feu automatiques - Google Patents
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- WO1998041809A1 WO1998041809A1 PCT/CA1997/000174 CA9700174W WO9841809A1 WO 1998041809 A1 WO1998041809 A1 WO 1998041809A1 CA 9700174 W CA9700174 W CA 9700174W WO 9841809 A1 WO9841809 A1 WO 9841809A1
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F41—WEAPONS
- F41A—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE
- F41A33/00—Adaptations for training; Gun simulators
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F41—WEAPONS
- F41A—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE
- F41A5/00—Mechanisms or systems operated by propellant charge energy for automatically opening the lock
- F41A5/32—Energy accumulator systems, i.e. systems for opening the breech-block by energy accumulated during barrel or gas piston recoil
- F41A5/34—Energy accumulator systems, i.e. systems for opening the breech-block by energy accumulated during barrel or gas piston recoil with spring accumulators
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- This invention relates to the field of firearms and provisions for modifying semi-automatic firearms for training purposes.
- it relates to the positioning of barrels to ensure reliable chambering in blow-back firearms that have been modified to fire low-energy ammunition.
- the weapon modifications required to permit cycling while firing low-energy training ammunition generally include replacing or modifying the barrel and sometimes replacing or adding one or two other components, depending on the weapon involved. These modifications also serve to increase safety.
- the caliber of the substitute barrel may be made smaller than the diameter of the projectiles of standard 9 mm ammunition. Then, if an attempt is made to chamber a standard round in such a training-adapted firearm, the barrel will not normally admit entry of the standard projectile. This ensures that such modified weapons cannot fire standard, live ammunition.
- the low-energy cartridge represented by United States Patent N B 5,359,937 in combination with a substitute training barrel, allows normal recoil and cartridge case ejection through a blow-back action.
- a training barrel of the type addressed by the invention is similar in most aspects to the standard barrel for a particular breech-locked pistol but is modified, in part, by removing the locking mechanism that holds the barrel and slide together for the first portion of the recoil cycle.
- the barrel- slide locking mechanism has been removed so that the weapon can fire low-energy ammunition as represented by United States Patent N a 5,359,937
- the barrel does not move rearward far enough after firing to be in its proper position to receive the next round to be chambered. This happens precisely because the barrel is no longer locked to the slide, which would normally carry the barrel to the correct position before unlocking and leaving it there.
- This invention is directed to an automatic pistol adapted to fire low-energy training ammunition by the substitution of a training barrel that omits the breech-lock feature normally present. It provides a system for the positioning of the barrel for reloading by adding a spring- loaded device to the bottom of the training barrel which, upon firing, positively moves the barrel rearward to its required position for receiving the next cartridge from the magazine in a manner which is completely independent from the motion of the slide. Without this barrel positioning mechanism, the barrel would be too far forward from the top of the magazine and the incoming cartridge would not necessarily enter the chamber cleanly, hence provoking a weapon jam whenever such misalignment should occur.
- a firearm is provided with a slide and a barrel which at no time are locked together during the firing cycle.
- the barrel is provided with a spring-loaded positioning bar which serves as a barrel positioning device.
- This positioning bar with its associated spring is mounted on the barrel, allowing free longitudinal movement between the bar and the barrel.
- some barrel designs include protrusions in the form of spaced lugs on the barrel, and the positioning bar and spring may be carried by two of the barrel lugs.
- the positioning bar abuts at its forward end the barrel locking pin or some other suitable anchor point in the frame of the weapon.
- the barrel positioning spring is at maximum compression because the slide has pushed the barrel to its farthest forward position during chambering of the low-energy cartridge to be fired.
- the slide recoils without pulling the barrel back with it. Even though there is nothing obstructing rearward movement of the barrel, because the two pieces (slide and barrel) are not locked together, the barrel would normally not move rearwardly without the barrel positioning mechanism of the invention being present. Rearward motion of the barrel is effected by the barrel positioning mechanism as it bears on the barrel locking pin, its spring force being expressed in the rearward direction.
- One way of attaching the barrel positioning mechanism to the barrel is by providing a seating pin at the forward face of the rear lug of the barrel and seating one end of the barrel positioning spring over the seating pin. The other end of the positioning spring is attached to the positioning bar.
- a groove in the adjacent, forward barrel lug receives and embraces the positioning bar.
- the forward barrel lug will move longitudinally over the positioning bar, which is held in the groove by a lateral pin which passes through an elongated slot in the bar and is fixed to the forward lug.
- the travel of the barrel is delimited by this pin- and-slot arrangement in the positioning bar, which ensures, through the length of the slot and the location of the lateral pin relative to the back face of the barrel, that the barrel is in the correct position to receive the next round to be chambered when the slide returns to close the breech.
- the subject training barrel after being properly positioned rearwardly by the barrel positioning device, does not need to be continually held in place during the entire chambering of the next cartridge to be fired.
- the barrel may commence to move forward as soon as the tip of the projectile begins to enter the chamber. This forward movement may occur because the spring in the barrel positioning device is extended after pushing the barrel rearward and presents no appreciable resistance to forward barrel movement under the influence of the returning slide. This is in contrast to the prior art design of Porter, which describes a much stronger detent mechanism to hold the barrel in place "until a cartridge has been successfully chambered".
- the barrel positioning spring must be of sufficient length and strength that it will be held in compression by the force of the spring or springs driving the slide, when the barrel is in its forward position prior to firing.
- the mechanical characteristics of the barrel positioning spring in compression must be such that this spring will be capable of readily lengthening from its compressed state to move the barrel positively back to the required position for receiving the next round, as determined by the pin and slot arrangement after the slide recoils.
- the barrel positioning spring remains only partially expanded after rearward movement of the barrel ceases so that the barrel will not move forward again until the slide of the weapon commences to chamber the next cartridge.
- the strength of the spring in the barrel positioning device is much less than the strength of the spring or springs associated with the slide so that the motion of the slide will not be impeded as it returns to close the breech and push the barrel forward in preparation for firing of the next cartridge. In doing so, this action of the slide recompresses the barrel positioning spring, readying it for the next cycle.
- Figure 1 is a partially cutaway, cross-sectional side-view of a prior art pistol ready to fire standard 9mm ammunition (only the barrel, slide, locking mechanism, part of the frame and part of the magazine are shown) .
- Figure 2 is the same side-view cross-section of the same pistol as in Figure 1 except that it now contains a training barrel, complete with the barrel positioning mechanism, and is ready to fire low-energy ammunition as represented by United States Patent N a 5,359,937.
- the spring in the barrel positioning device is at maximum compression.
- Figure 3 is a partial cross-section through a barrel lug and the pistol frame of the pistol of Figure 2.
- Figure 4 shows the pistol of Figure 2 after firing with the slide in its most rearward position, ready to be moved forward by the slide recoil spring or springs (not shown) .
- the spent case from the cartridge of Figure 2 after firing has been ejected from the weapon and the next cartridge from the magazine is in position to be chambered by the returning slide.
- FIG 1 a prior art 9 mm pistol is shown having a barrel 1 with lugs 5, 5A, slide 2, a normal barrel-slide locking mechanism 3 with piston 7, frame 6 with barrel locking pin 4 and magazine 9, and standard 9 mm service ammunition 8.
- barrel 1 is replaced by training barrel 10, as shown in Figure 2.
- Training barrel 10 differs from prior art barrel 1 in that the barrel-slide locking mechanism 3 with piston 7 is replaced by barrel positioning mechanism 11 consisting of barrel positioning bar HA with slot HE, spring IIB, spring seating pin 11C, and transverse pin 11D.
- the preferred cross-section of the barrel positioning bar HA is rectangular, it could also be circular or some other shape.
- the rearward end of spring HB is mounted on seating pin HC, which is attached to lug 5A, pointing forwardly.
- the other, forward end of positioning spring HB is attached to positioning bar HA, around which grove 13 in lug 5 is free to move longitudinally and parallel to the barrel.
- the forward end of positioning bar HA abuts against barrel locking pin 4 on the frame 6, thereby immobilizing positioning bar HA with respect to the frame 6 during the firing cycle.
- This forward end may be curved to mate intimately with the surface of the barrel locking pin 4.
- Positioning bar HA is held in groove 13 by transverse pin HD in slot HE.
- Pin HD is anchored in lug 5, hence both move with the same motion as the training barrel 10.
- the location of pin HD and the length and location of slot HE are such that the stroke of pin HD is sufficient to allow movement of training barrel 10 rearward, after firing of the weapon, to its proper position for chambering of the next cartridge to be fired.
- Rearward movement of training barrel 10 from its forward position at the moment of firing is effected by positioning spring HB, which is in compression at the time of firing. Since positioning bar HA does not move because it is abutted against barrel locking pin 4 , positioning spring HB is constrained to expand rearward only.
- the functioning of the subject barrel positioning device has been tested many hundreds of times in Walther P-5 pistols with complete success and reliability.
- the barrel positioning device of the invention is particularly suited for training barrels for such 9 mm automatic pistols as the Walther P-5, Walther P-38, Beretta 92 and Beretta 96, but may also be applicable to other automatic firearms that fire low- energy ammunition as represented by United States Patent N a 5,359,937 or other type of low-energy ammunition, including blanks.
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Priority Applications (4)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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DE69714592T DE69714592T2 (de) | 1997-03-14 | 1997-03-14 | Rohrpositionierungsmechanismus für automatische handfeuerwaffen |
PCT/CA1997/000174 WO1998041809A1 (fr) | 1997-03-14 | 1997-03-14 | Mecanisme de positionnement du canon d'armes a feu automatiques |
EP97906063A EP0910782B1 (fr) | 1997-03-14 | 1997-03-14 | Mecanisme de positionnement du canon d'armes a feu automatiques |
US09/139,418 US5983773A (en) | 1997-03-14 | 1998-08-25 | Chambering of low-energy training ammunition in automatic firearms |
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PCT/CA1997/000174 WO1998041809A1 (fr) | 1997-03-14 | 1997-03-14 | Mecanisme de positionnement du canon d'armes a feu automatiques |
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US09/139,418 Continuation-In-Part US5983773A (en) | 1997-03-14 | 1998-08-25 | Chambering of low-energy training ammunition in automatic firearms |
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US7225741B2 (en) | 2004-01-22 | 2007-06-05 | Pdt Tech, Llc | Reduced energy training cartridge for self-loading firearms |
US7278358B2 (en) | 2004-01-22 | 2007-10-09 | Pdt Tech, Llc. | Non-lethal marking bullet for related training cartridges |
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US4907489A (en) * | 1988-08-31 | 1990-03-13 | The United States Of America As Represented By The United States Department Of Energy | Blank fire configuration for automatic pistol |
EP0505917A2 (fr) * | 1991-03-25 | 1992-09-30 | Heckler & Koch GmbH | Arme à feu, notamment arme de poing |
DE4341131C1 (de) * | 1993-12-02 | 1995-02-02 | Heckler & Koch Gmbh | Schußwaffe mit Rückstoßabpufferung, insbesondere Faustfeuerwaffe |
US5433134A (en) * | 1993-10-05 | 1995-07-18 | Leiter; Edward J. | Blank firing conversions for semiautomatic pistols |
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- 1997-03-14 EP EP97906063A patent/EP0910782B1/fr not_active Expired - Lifetime
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US4907489A (en) * | 1988-08-31 | 1990-03-13 | The United States Of America As Represented By The United States Department Of Energy | Blank fire configuration for automatic pistol |
EP0505917A2 (fr) * | 1991-03-25 | 1992-09-30 | Heckler & Koch GmbH | Arme à feu, notamment arme de poing |
US5433134A (en) * | 1993-10-05 | 1995-07-18 | Leiter; Edward J. | Blank firing conversions for semiautomatic pistols |
DE4341131C1 (de) * | 1993-12-02 | 1995-02-02 | Heckler & Koch Gmbh | Schußwaffe mit Rückstoßabpufferung, insbesondere Faustfeuerwaffe |
Cited By (4)
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US7225741B2 (en) | 2004-01-22 | 2007-06-05 | Pdt Tech, Llc | Reduced energy training cartridge for self-loading firearms |
US7278358B2 (en) | 2004-01-22 | 2007-10-09 | Pdt Tech, Llc. | Non-lethal marking bullet for related training cartridges |
US7621208B2 (en) | 2004-01-22 | 2009-11-24 | Federal Cartridge Company | Reduced energy training cartridge for self-loading firearms |
US7984668B2 (en) | 2004-01-22 | 2011-07-26 | Federal Cartridge Company | Reduced energy training cartridge for self-loading firearms |
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EP0910782B1 (fr) | 2002-08-07 |
EP0910782A1 (fr) | 1999-04-28 |
DE69714592T2 (de) | 2003-10-09 |
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