Shot indicating resetting trigger firearm training system

• US 9,746,271 B2
• Filed: 02/11/2014
• Issued: 08/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Britt Lentz, Gregory Davis, Jack Kettlestrings, Michael F. Hughes
• Original Assignee: Britt Lentz, Gregory Davis, Jack Kettlestrings, Michael F. Hughes
• Inventors: Hughes, Michael F., Kettlestrings, Jack, Davis, Gregory, Lentz, Britt
• Primary Examiner(s): Musselman, Timothy A
• Application Number:
  US14/178,114
• Publication Number:
  US 20150226508A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,295 Days
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 19/12 Sears; Sear mountings
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 19/16 Adjustable firing mechanisms; Trigger mechanisms with adjustable trigger pull F41A19/17 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 19/69 Electric contacts or switches peculiar thereto F41A19/65 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 33/02 Light- or radiation-emitting guns ; Light- or radiation-sensitive guns; Cartridges carrying light emitting sources, e.g. laser

Abstract

A firearm training tool having a shot indicating system configured to provide a training rifle with a shot indicating laser activated by pressing a trigger rearward.

Claims

1. A laser bolt configured to fit to an upper receiver mounted to a barrel of a rifle, the rifle also comprises a lower receiver with a hammer and a trigger having a trigger tail within the lower receiver, the laser bolt comprising:

a main body configured to mount a laser therein, the laser mounted in the main body to emit a laser beam down the barrel, the main body further housing a power source to supply power to the laser;

a switch extension operatively configured to engage the trigger tail of the trigger in the lower receiver and move toward the upper receiver when the trigger is pressed rearwardly;

a laser activation switch operationally configured to receive the switch extension where force from the switch extension closes the laser activation switch and whereby activates the laser to emit a laser beam down the barrel;

whereas the main body repositions the hammer when the upper receiver is in engagement with the lower receiver so the trigger has sufficient motion to reposition the switch extension to engage the laser activation switch on to activate the laser.

2. The laser bolt as recited in claim 1, wherein the main body comprises a laser bolt housing and a chamber extension where as the chamber extension is configured to mount within the barrel of the upper receiver.

3. The laser bolt as recited in claim 2, wherein the chamber extension is not rigidly attached to the laser bolt housing.

4. The laser bolt as recited in claim 1, wherein the laser stays on when the trigger is pressed rearwardly.

5. The laser bolt as recited in claim 1, wherein the power supply is a CR123 battery.

6. The laser bolt as recited in claim 1, wherein the laser is adjustable by way of access through an ejection port of the upper receiver.

7. The laser bolt as recited in claim 6, wherein the laser bolt mounts to the upper receiver by being inserted into the rear portion of the upper receiver and an extension mounts inside a chamber of the barrel to securely mount thereto where as the laser is rigidly mounted to the extension and is adjustable to adjust a point of impact from the laser beam that emits from the laser with respects to the upper receiver.

8. The laser bolt as recited in claim 1, wherein the laser is adjustable by way of access through a magazine port in the lower receiver.

9. A dry fire system, comprising:

a lower receiver having a trigger rotationally mounted therein, the trigger having a rear portion mounted in the lower receiver, the lower receiver further having a hammer whereas the trigger is operatively configured to release the hammer from a stored energy position to a fallen position;

an upper receiver having a forward region with a barrel having a chamber mounted to the upper receiver;

a laser bolt operatively configured to fit within the upper receiver, the laser bolt comprising a laser electrically connected to a laser activation switch;

whereas a switch extension is operatively configured to engage the rear portion of the trigger housed within the lower receiver so when the trigger is pulled rearward the switch extension closes the laser activation switch whereby sending a laser beam from the laser down the barrel.

10. The dry fire system as recited in claim 9, wherein the laser is adjustable by way of access through an ejection port of the upper receiver.

11. The dry fire system as recited in claim 9, wherein the laser is adjustable by way of access through a magazine port in the lower receiver.

12. The dry fire system as recited in claim 11, wherein the laser is adjustable for substantial vertical alignment by way of access through the magazine port in the lower receiver and where the laser is adjustable in a substantial left and right direction by way of access through an ejection port of the upper receiver.

13. The dry fire system as recited in claim 9, wherein the trigger has free movement by way of the hammer being repositioned rearward when the upper receiver is mounted to the lower receiver and laser bolt presses the hammer rearward.

14. The dry fire system as recited in claim 9, wherein the laser stays on when the trigger is rearwardly pressed.