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[54] GUN HAMMER MECHANISM
[75] Inventor: James L. Sullivan, Costa Mesa, Calif.
[73] Assignee: Chartered Industries of Singapore
Private Limited, Jurong Town,
Singapore
1521
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2/ 1969
France .
594713 6/1959
217867 12/1967
873475
7/1957
United Kingdom .
2109515
6/1983
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ABSTRACT
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741 and the opposing end of the strut 750 from the
hammer is spring biassed to rotate the hammer toward
a ?ring position. The top surface of the strut 753 is
arranged to be tangential to a top surface on the ham
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diate the hammer pivot and the ?ring pin striking sur
face of the hammer. The strut is located within the coil
spring and the coil spring is mounted inside a tubular
sleeve, the end of the sleeve remote from the hammer
operation.
One known form of gas operated automatic or semi
automatic gun employing a hammer mechanism is the
Garand rifle various forms of which are described in
only a fraction of that bolt cycle time since the time for
then rotated into a locked position so that the cartridge 35 ?fty rounds or more, then the magazine spring must be
barrel the gas is dissipated. The cylinder houses a piston 45 decreased. The present invention seeks to provide a
which operates under the cartridge gas pressure and as
hammer mechanism and a gun employing the same in
the cylinder ?lls with gas so the piston is driven rear
which a large capacity magazine can be used but in
wardly to drive an operating slide which acquires the
which a weaker magazine spring force than heretobe
momentum of the piston such that the operating slide
fore can be employed.
rotates and unlocks the bolt. Continued movement of
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sear and would block the return of the bolt. Thus, in the
advance is produced.
Normally a pivotably mounted trigger is connected
trigger pulled.
the lip and corner are arranged so that when the ham
mer is released the sear holds the hammer in a non-?ring
parts.
pression spring.
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ing lugs (not shown) for locking the bolt to the barrel
extension,
The bolt carrier assembly 3 is slidably mounted upon
a rail (not shown) in the receiver 1 and the bolt carrier
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so the bolt lugs 307 rotate and engage behind the lugs on
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tainer 734 and the closure of the blind hole 733 and the
nose 740 abuts the underside of rod 741. In this position
the latch 761 is rotated anti-clockwise by spring 769
acting between the closure of the blind hold 768 in the
trigger and the underside of the tail 762 so that the
forward ?nger 763 has its tip 764 abutting the planar
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4. A gun according to claim 1, wherein a pivot is
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CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION
PATENT NO.
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DATED
Sullivan .
D a y Of January I 986
[SEAL]
Arrest:
DONALD J. QUIGG
Arresting Officer
CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION
PATENT NO.
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DATED
Sullivan .
D a y of January 1986
[SEAL]
Arrest:
DONALD J. QUIGG
Arresting Of?cer