Blank firing adapter

• US 5,140,893 A
• Filed: 01/23/1991
• Issued: 08/25/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: L-3 Communications Corporation (L3Harris Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Edward J. Leiter
• Inventors: Leiter, Edward J.
• Primary Examiner(s): BENTLEY, STEPHEN
• Application Number:
  US07/644,828
• Time in Patent Office: 580 Days
• Field of Search: 89/14.2, 89/14.5, 89/14.6
• US Class Current: 89/14.5
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 21/26 specially adapted for recoil reinforcement, e.g. for training purposes

Abstract

A blank firing adapter having a particular configuration is installed in an automatic or semi-automatic firearm to increase back-pressure of propellant enabling the firearm to be efficiently operated with blank, or practice, ammunition.

Claims

1. In an automatic or semi-automatic firearm including a barrel having a bore and a crown, a flash suppressor detachably affixed to the barrel and a blank firing adapter possessing a single propellant gas-occluding passage therethrough which is coincident with the axis of the bore of the barrel, the blank firing adapter being disposed between the crown of the barrel and the flash suppressor, the improvement which comprises a blank firing adapter in which the propellant gas-occluding passage terminates in a conical zone defined upon the rear face of the adapter, the length of the propellant gas-occluding passage being less than 25% of the diameter of the adapter and the diameter of the propellant gas-occluding passage being less than 90% of its length, there being no unrestricted passage of exiting propellant gas from the barrel of the firearm except through the gas-occluding passage of the blank firing adapter.

2. The automatic or semi-automatic firearm of claim 1 in which the body of the blank-firing adapter is cylindrical.

3. The automatic or semi-automatic firearm of claim 1 in which the diameter of the propellant gas-occluding passage is less than about 75% of the length of the passage.