Laser trainer cartridge

• US 9,170,079 B2
• Filed: 01/18/2012
• Issued: 10/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Crimson Trace Corporation Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Larry E. Moore
• Inventors: Moore, Larry E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Weber, Jonathan C
• Application Number:
  US13/353,165
• Publication Number:
  US 20120224387A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,378 Days
• Field of Search: 421/16, 421/14, 421/15, 421/34, 421/11
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/32 Night sights, e.g. luminescent optical aspects of sighting devices G02B23/00, G02B27/00
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/54 Devices for testing or checking ; Tools for adjustment of sights
• CPC Class Codes: F41J 5/02 Photo-electric hit-detector systems comprising a light-emitting device for simulating the firing of a gun F41G3/2622; detecting by optical means G01V8/10
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/42 of illuminating type, e.g. carrying flares
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 8/00 Practice or training ammunition
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 8/02 Cartridges F41A33/02, F42B7/12 take precedence

Abstract

A cartridge laser trainer fits into a gun barrel and includes a backer, circuit and a laser. When the firing pin of the gun is activated it strikes the backer, which contacts the circuit and activates the laser. The cartridge laser trainer may also have one or more O-rings to keep it positioned properly in the gun barrel. Also disclosed are kits that contain (1) a plurality of sheaths and a cartridge laser trainer, or (2) a plurality of O-rings and a cartridge laser trainer. Each sheath or O-ring(s) is configured to be positioned in a particular-sized gun bore and is configured to receive a cartridge laser trainer. With a kit, a single cartridge laser trainer can be used with more than one size of gun bore.

Claims

1. A kit comprising;

(a) a cartridge laser trainer comprising an outer casing and one or more O-rings positioned on the outer casing, the cartridge laser trainer configured to fit snugly within a sheath having a particular inside diameter, and further comprising a backer that is positioned so as to be struck by a firing pin of a gun when the gun is fired, a circuit and a laser, wherein the backer has a first position wherein it does not contact the circuit and a second position wherein it contacts the circuit, the backer moving from its first position to its second position when it is struck by the firing pin, and the circuit causing the laser to illuminate when it is contacted by the backer, wherein the cartridge laser trainer includes (a) a front portion and a front O-ring positioned on the front portion, the front O-ring having an outer diameter equal to or greater than an interior diameter of a sheath into which the cartridge laser trainer fits, and (b) a back portion and a rear O-ring positioned on the back portion, the rear O-ring having an outer diameter equal to or greater than the inner sheath diameter of the sheath; and

(b) a plurality of sheaths, wherein each of the plurality of sheaths has an outer surface, and one or more O-rings on the outer surface, an interior cavity with the inner diameter, wherein the inner diameter for each of the plurality of sheaths is the same, the one or more O-rings on each of the plurality of sheaths defining an outer diameter different than the outer diameter defined by the one or more O-rings of at least one other of the plurality of sheaths, and each of the plurality of sheaths being configured to fit into a gun barrel of a particular diameter, wherein the one or more O-rings of each of the plurality of sheaths has a diameter equal to or greater than the diameter of the gun barrel into which the sheath is configured to fit.

2. The kit of claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of sheaths is configured to fit into a different sized gun barrel.

3. The kit of claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of sheaths has a first end and a second end, the first end being open and the second end being open.

4. The kit of claim 1 wherein the one or more O-rings on each of the plurality of sheaths has a diameter equal to, or up to 0.030″

greater than, the diameter of the gun barrel into which the sheath is configured to fit.

5. The kit of claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of sheaths has a first portion having a first O-ring and a second portion having a second O-ring, the first O-ring having a diameter equal to or greater than the diameter of the gun barrel into which the sheath is configured to fit, and the second O-ring having a diameter equal to or greater than the diameter of the gun barrel into which the sheath is configured to fit.

6. The kit of claim 5 wherein the first O-ring has a diameter of equal to, or up to 0.030″

greater than, the gun barrel into which the sheath is configured to fit, and the second O-ring has a diameter of equal to, or up to 0.030″

greater than the gun barrel into which the sheath is configured to fit.

7. The kit of claim 1 wherein the backer is comprised of urethane.

8. The kit of claim 1 wherein the backer has a durometer of between 75 to 95 Shore A.

9. The kit of claim 1 wherein each sheath has (a) a front portion with an O-ring on the front portion, and (b) a back portion with an O-ring on the back portion.