Firearm Muzzle Attachment Compensating Rise With Gas Ports
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current firearm attachments fail to effectively reduce or eliminate muzzle flash and muzzle climb while also providing a precise and reliable method for mounting accessories like sound suppressors or blank firing adapters.
Innovation Solution
A firearm attachment with a base coupled to the muzzle end of a barrel, featuring longitudinal tines and apertures that extend from the bore to the outer circumference, which imparts thrust to compensate for muzzle rise and pull by accelerating combustion gases, thereby reducing muzzle flash and climb, and allows precise mounting of accessories.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If a flash hider or sound suppressor is mounted to the muzzle end, then muzzle flash and muzzle blast are reduced, but the attachment cannot effectively compensate for muzzle rise and maintain shooting accuracy
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions into a single muzzle attachment device: flash suppression, sound suppression, and muzzle rise compensation. The attachment integrates a flash hider structure with a sound suppressor and incorporates a recoil compensation mechanism featuring ports positioned at specific angles to generate counteracting thrust forces, thereby eliminating muzzle climb while maintaining suppression capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The muzzle attachment is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously: suppressing muzzle flash, reducing sound, and compensating for recoil-induced muzzle rise. This multi-functional design allows a single device to address all three harmful effects without requiring separate attachments, improving overall effectiveness while simplifying the system.
2Manufacturing precision
If a muzzle brake or recoil compensator is used to prevent muzzle rise, then shooting accuracy is improved, but the attachment does not effectively suppress muzzle flash
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the recoil compensation function with flash suppression capabilities in a single integrated attachment. The device incorporates both the port structure necessary for generating counteracting thrust forces to prevent muzzle rise and the flash hider geometry needed to suppress visible flash, thereby achieving both objectives simultaneously.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If a sound suppressor is mounted forward of the muzzle end, then muzzle blast is reduced, but the attachment cannot effectively address muzzle rise and flash
Solution Approach 1:
The attachment is designed as a multi-functional device that simultaneously addresses sound suppression, flash suppression, and muzzle rise compensation. By integrating these three functions into a single attachment mounted at the muzzle end, the device provides comprehensive suppression capability without requiring multiple separate components.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines the sound suppressor function with flash hider and recoil compensation functions in one integrated attachment. The device merges the lumen structure for sound suppression with the port configuration for recoil compensation and the geometry for flash suppression, creating a versatile multi-functional attachment.
4Object-affected harmful factors
If separate attachments are used for flash suppression, sound suppression, and recoil compensation, then each function can be optimized, but the device complexity and mounting precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges three separate attachment functions (flash hider, sound suppressor, and recoil compensator) into a single integrated device. This consolidation reduces the total number of components, simplifies the mounting process to a single attachment point, and eliminates the need for multiple alignment procedures while maintaining all three suppression functions.
Solution Approach 2:
The attachment is designed as a universal multi-functional device that performs flash suppression, sound suppression, and recoil compensation simultaneously. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for multiple separate attachments and reduces overall system complexity while providing comprehensive suppression of all three harmful effects.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution effectively reduces muzzle flash and climb, maintaining shooting accuracy and enabling precise mounting of accessories, enhancing covert operations and weapon stability during rapid firing.
Implementation Method 1
the apertures are adapted to impart thrust to the firearm attachment in response to combustion gases passed from the bore through the apertures to compensate for muzzle rise
Implementation Method 2
When the projectile, or bullet, exits the muzzle of the weapon's barrel, a bright, 'muzzle flash' of light and a high-pressure pulse of combustion gases accompany it
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AI summary
Various embodiments are provided to implement an attachment for a firearm that operates as a flash hider, a muzzle brake, and/or to mount, e.g., a sound suppressor, to the firearm. In one example, a firearm attachment includes a base adapted to couple to a muzzle end of a barrel of a firearm. The firearm attachment includes a plurality of longitudinal tines that extend forward from the base. The base includes a plurality of apertures disposed rearward of the tines and that extend from a bore within the base through an outer circumfery of the firearm attachment. The apertures exhibit a first diameter at the bore and a second larger diameter at the outer circumfery. The apertures are adapted to impart thrust to the firearm attachment in response to combustion gases passed from the bore through the apertures to compensate for muzzle rise associated with the firearm.