Bolt assembly comprising ejection port cover
First Claim
1. In a firearm having a barrel assembly, a trigger assembly, a receiver having an ejection port, a bolt assembly moveable within the receiver between a forward breech closed position and a rearward breech open position, an improved bolt assembly comprising a bolt body, a firing pin, and an ejection port cover slideably connected to the bolt assembly, the ejection port cover biased rearward with respect to the bolt body to cover at least a rearward portion of the ejection port when the bolt assembly is in a forward breech closed position, the ejection port cover slideably connected to the bolt assembly to move, along a longitudinal axis parallel to the barrel assembly, with the bolt assembly to uncover the ejection port when the bolt assembly is in the rearward breech open position.
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Abstract
A firearm having a reciprocating bolt assembly comprising a spring biased ejection port cover operatively connected to the bolt assembly to cover the ejection port when the bolt assembly is in the forward breech closed position, and which moves with the bolt assembly to uncover the ejection port when the bolt assembly is in the rearward breech open position.
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- 1. In a firearm having a barrel assembly, a trigger assembly, a receiver having an ejection port, a bolt assembly moveable within the receiver between a forward breech closed position and a rearward breech open position, an improved bolt assembly comprising a bolt body, a firing pin, and an ejection port cover slideably connected to the bolt assembly, the ejection port cover biased rearward with respect to the bolt body to cover at least a rearward portion of the ejection port when the bolt assembly is in a forward breech closed position, the ejection port cover slideably connected to the bolt assembly to move, along a longitudinal axis parallel to the barrel assembly, with the bolt assembly to uncover the ejection port when the bolt assembly is in the rearward breech open position.
- 13. In a firearm having a barrel assembly, a trigger assembly, a receiver having an ejection port, a bolt assembly moveable within the receiver between a forward breech closed position and a rearward breech open position, an improved bolt assembly comprising a bolt body, a firing pin, a bolt carrier assembly, and an ejection port cover biased rearward with respect to the bolt carrier assembly to cover at least a rearward portion of the ejection port when the bolt carrier assembly and bolt body are in a forward breech closed position, the ejection port cover operatively connected to the bolt carrier assembly to move, along a longitudinal axis parallel to the barrel assembly, with the bolt carrier assembly to uncover the ejection port when the bolt carrier assembly and bolt body are in a rearward breech open position.
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