Multi-Functional Gun Scraper Tool for Efficient Firearm Maintenance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing gun cleaning kits are often customized for specific firearms, leading to multiple tools that can be misplaced and difficult to store and transport, making it challenging to efficiently clean multiple firearm components, especially those with many surfaces like the AR-15.
Innovation Solution
A multi-functional gun scraper tool with various components such as scraping blades, brushes, and a cotter pin puller, designed to be compact and easy to handle, allowing for efficient cleaning and disassembly of multiple firearm parts in one tool, including a spindle, exterior scraping blade, pivoting brush, and other specialized scrapers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple specialized cleaning tools are used for different firearm parts, then cleaning effectiveness is improved, but device complexity and storage difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple specialized cleaning tools (scrapers, brushes, pullers) into a single integrated gun cleaning tool with a common handle, allowing users to clean different firearm parts with one consolidated device rather than managing multiple separate tools
Solution Approach 2:
The gun cleaning tool is designed as a multi-functional device where a single handle supports various cleaning components (exterior scraper, interior scraper, brush, cotter pin puller) that can be used on different firearm parts, making one tool universal for multiple cleaning tasks
2Reliability
If multiple specialized cleaning tools are used for different firearm parts, then cleaning effectiveness is improved, but ease of operation and storage are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple specialized cleaning tools (scrapers, brushes, pullers) into a single integrated gun cleaning tool with a common handle, allowing users to clean different firearm parts with one consolidated device rather than managing multiple separate tools
Solution Approach 2:
The cleaning components (scrapers, brushes, pullers) are designed to be attached to or stored on the common handle, with components that can be nested or collapsed into the handle structure when not in use, improving storage convenience
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 tool effectively removes carbon and residue from multiple firearm components, reducing the need for additional cleaners and tools, while being easy to use and store, ensuring quick and convenient maintenance.
Implementation Method 1
scrape carbon and residue off of the appropriate areas of the firearm
Implementation Method 2
pivoting brush
Data Source
AI summary
A gun scraper tool has elements that are adapted to maintain firearms. More specifically, a gun scraper tool can have several components and scraping surfaces that can be used to disassemble a firearm and/or to scrape carbon and residue off of the appropriate areas of the firearm by using scraping surfaces. The gun scraper tool can have a roughly triangular housing and a plurality of tool components and scraping surfaces that use the housing as the base. The tool components and scraping surfaces can include a spindle, an exterior scraping blade, a pivoting brush have a base and a set of bristles, a cotter pin puller, a bolt tail brush having bristles, and a bolt carrier scraper. The variety of tasks capable of being accomplished with the disclosed gun scraper tool can minimize the need for additional cleaners or tools.