Convertible gun

• US 3,198,076 A
• Filed: 03/22/1963
• Issued: 08/03/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Eugene M. Stoner
• Original Assignee: Eugene M. Stoner
• Inventors: Stoner, Eugene M.
• Application Number:
  US04/267,183
• Time in Patent Office: 865 Days
• US Class Current: 89/128
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 11/00 Assembly or disassembly features; Modular concepts; Articulated or collapsible guns F41A3/64, F41A19/10 - F41A19/15, F41A21/48, F41A25/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 11/02 Modular concepts, e.g. weapon-family concepts
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 19/15 Modular firing mechanism units
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 19/43 in bolt-action guns
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 19/46 Arrangements for the selection of automatic or semi-automatic fire
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 21/482 using continuous threads on the barrel
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 3/26 semi-automatically or automatically operated, e.g. having a slidable bolt-carrier and a rotatable bolt
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 9/37 Feeding two or more kinds of ammunition to the same gun; Feeding from two sides
• CPC Class Codes: F41C 33/08 Handles for carrying smallarms

Claims

1. IN A CONVERTIBLE GUN, THE COMBINATION OF:

A RECEIVER;

A BOLT CARRIER IN SAID RECEIVER;

A REVERSIBLE MOUNT SECURED TO SAID BOLT CARRIER;

REVERSIBLE GUIDE AND DRIVE MEANS SECURED TO SAID MOUNT;

A BELT FEED MECHANISM DEMOUNTABLY SECURED TO SAID RECEIVER FOR ENGAGEMENT BY SAID REVERSIBLE GUIDE AND DRIVE MEANS;

A FIRING PIN IN SAID BOLT CARRIER;

AND DETENT MEANS ON SAID BOLT CARRIER FOR HOLDING SAID FIRING PIN AGAINST MOVEMENT WITH RESPECT TO SAID BOLT CARRIER WHEN SAID REVERSIBLE GUIDE AND DRIVE MEANS IS ENGAGED WITH SAID BELT FEED MECHANISM, SAID FIRING PIN BEING OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID MOUNT TO ENGAGE SAID DETENT MEANS WITH SAID FIRING PIN AND PREVENT RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN SAID BOLT CARRIER AND SAID FIRING PIN.