Rifle ramrod with cleaning jag

• US 5,651,207 A
• Filed: 06/23/1995
• Issued: 07/29/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Modern Muzzleloading Incorporated (EBSCO Industries Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Modern Muzzleloading Incorporated (EBSCO Industries Incorporated)
• Inventors: Knight, William A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Carone, Michael J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wesson, Theresa M.
• Application Number:
  US08/494,109
• Time in Patent Office: 767 Days
• Field of Search: 42/51, 42/90, 42/95, 89/31, 15/104.16, 15/104.165
• US Class Current: 42/95
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 29/00 Cleaning or lubricating arrangements injecting fluids into barrels or cartridge chambers F41A13/04 ; ammunition for cleaning purposes F42B5/24

Abstract

A cleaning jag assembly for use with the ramrod of a rifle comprises an elongated rod having threads at its inner and outer ends with the threads at the inner end being adapted for threadable engagement with an internally threaded bushing on the outer end of a ramrod. The outer end of the rod is threadably engaged with a cleaning jag. The rod has an unthreaded central portion except for a segment of threads that exist at the rearward end of the cleaning jag. Those threads are adaptable for engagement with the threads in the bushing when the rod is unthreaded from the bushing at its inner end, slidably moved through the bushing, and then threadably engaged by joining the threads of the segment with the threads at the outer end of the bushing.

Claims

1. A cleaning jag assembly moveably mountable within the ramrod of a rifle, comprising,

an elongated rod having male threaded inner and outer ends and an unthreaded central portion, said central portion having a diameter less than the respective major diameters of said threaded inner and outer ends,

a cleaning jag having a female thread therein whereby said cleaning jag is threadedly attached to said male threaded outer end of said rod;

and

the threaded outer end being adapted to retain the assembly in a storage position relative to the ramrod and the threaded inner end being adapted to retain the assembly in a use position relative to the ramrod.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein a portion of the threads on said outer end of said rod extend inwardly from said cleaning jag.

3. The device of claim 1 wherein a retaining flange is located on the inner end of said rod.

4. The device of claim 1 wherein the threads on the inner end have a thread size which is identical to the threads on the outer end.

5. A ramrod for rifles, comprising,

an elongated hollow rod having an outer end,

a bushing on said outer end having a longitudinally extending threaded bore,

an elongated rod having threaded inner and outer ends and an unthreaded central portion extending through said bore, and

a cleaning jag threaded on the outer end of said elongated rod.

6. The device of claim 5 wherein a portion of the threads on said outer end of said elongated rod extend inwardly from said cleaning jag.

7. The device of claim 5 wherein a retaining flange is located on the inner end of said elongated rod.

8. The device of claim 5 wherein said central portion has a diameter less than the diameter of said threaded inner end.