Silencer Mounting Plate for Independent Barrel Movement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing silencers for handguns with movable barrels pose challenges in maintaining the self-loading function due to increased recoil mass, leading to malfunctions, and existing solutions like pulse generators are complex, expensive, and difficult to assemble/disassemble.
Innovation Solution
A silencer fastening device that allows independent movement of the barrel relative to the silencer, using a tongue and groove or screw connection, with a locking mechanism to prevent unintended disengagement, ensuring the silencer does not interfere with the firearm's operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a silencer is screwed onto the barrel, then the silencer is securely attached, but the weapon's self-loading function is impaired due to increased recoil mass
Solution Approach 1:
The silencer attachment system is divided into separate components: a mounting plate that attaches to the weapon body, and a silencer that attaches to the mounting plate. This segmentation allows the silencer to be decoupled from the barrel, so that the barrel's movement during recoil is not impeded by the silencer's weight, thereby preserving the self-loading function while still providing sound suppression.
Solution Approach 2:
A mounting plate serves as an intermediary component between the weapon body and the silencer. This intermediate structure provides a separate attachment point that does not interfere with the barrel's recoil movement, allowing the silencer to be securely mounted without affecting the weapon's automatic loading mechanism.
2Ease of operation
If a pulse generator is used between the silencer and gun barrel, then the barrel can move independently, but the device becomes complex and expensive
Solution Approach 1:
The complex pulse generator mechanism is completely removed from the design. Instead, a simple mounting plate with basic attachment features is used, which achieves the same functional result (allowing independent barrel movement) through a much simpler mechanical structure that is easier to manufacture and maintain.
Solution Approach 2:
Rather than using a complex active mechanism (pulse generator) to achieve independent movement, the invention uses a passive structural approach where the mounting plate is deliberately designed to allow natural barrel movement while maintaining silencer attachment. This inverts the problem-solving approach from active control to passive structural design.
3Ease of manufacture
If a silencer is screwed directly onto the barrel, then the assembly is simple, but the assembly and disassembly take a large amount of time
Solution Approach 1:
The attachment system is segmented into a mounting plate that remains permanently attached to the weapon body, and a silencer that can be quickly attached or detached from the mounting plate. This segmentation allows the time-consuming threading operation to be performed only once during manufacturing, while field assembly and disassembly become simple quick-attach operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting plate is pre-installed on the weapon body during manufacturing, with all necessary threading and alignment already completed. This preliminary action eliminates the need for time-consuming assembly operations when the silencer needs to be attached or removed in the field, as users only need to perform the simple attachment operation to the pre-prepared mounting plate.
4Reliability
If a lighter or smaller silencer is used, then the recoil mass is reduced, but the stability and damping effect decrease
Solution Approach 1:
By separating the silencer attachment from the barrel threading, the system allows the use of larger, more stable silencers that would be too heavy for direct barrel attachment. The mounting plate provides a stable base for these larger silencers while the decoupled design ensures that the added weight does not interfere with the barrel's recoil movement and self-loading function.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a fastening device for fastening a silencer to a handgun, wherein the fastening device has a fastening rail for fastening the fastening device to a mounting rail of the firearm, and a fastening means for fastening the weapon accessory to the fastening rail, wherein a fastening plate, which stands perpendicular to the fastening rail, is arranged on the front end of the fastening rail, wherein a shot channel is designed in the fastening plate that, when the fastening device is fastened to the mounting rail, extends coaxially to the center axis of the barrel of the firearm, and the fastening plate has the fastening means. The invention further relates to a weapon accessory that is designed to be fastened to a fastening device according to the invention.