Patent Application
20230288164
This invention generally relates to muzzle boosters and suppressors for locked breech pistols and pistol caliber carbines.
Most pistols made today are short recoil operated, also called locked-breech pistols. These guns can more easily handle higher pressure cartridges because when the slide starts moving to the rear, the barrel moves with it.
Suppressors, commonly referred to as “silencers,” are devices fixed to the end of a firearm intended to muffle the sound of a shot being fired, not to silence the sound. The sound of a gunshot from a gun with a suppressor is still loud, but is generally safe enough for the operator to avoid having to wear hearing protection (with the exception of some large calibers firearms). Essentially, suppressors make guns just quiet enough to reduce most, or all, of the downsides associated with extremely loud gunshots. The suppressors, generally, have minimal impact on a bullets velocity and accuracy.
Reliable cycling of suppressed locked breech pistols, also called short recoil guns, with a wide range of ammunition has long been a problem. The addition of a suppressor to a locked breech short recoil firearm increases the mass of the system and prevents the firearm from cycling. The most common solution to this issue is a muzzle booster, also known as a recoil booster, a booster, or a Nielsen Device. The muzzle booster utilizes a spring to absorb the additional mass of the silencer and ensure the firearm cycles normally.
Traditionally, the muzzle booster housing retains the spring and piston and the booster housing is threaded on the outer diameter to screw directly into a silencer or suppressor. Currently, in order to use the same silencer on, for example, a 9 mm pistol and 9 mm rifle (Pistol Caliber Carbine (PCC)), the muzzle booster would need to be unscrewed from the silencer and the suppressor coupled onto the rifle using a different adapter, or at the very least, the muzzle booster would need to be unscrewed from the pistol and re-screwed onto the rifle. This is time consuming and cumbersome. Further, muzzle boosters are typically not desirable to be used on a rifle, due to the rifle having no moving barrel and not needing the mass of the silencer to be absorbed. The booster, never the less, can be used on a rifle, such use is just not desirable.
There is a need in the industry for a muzzle booster and suppressor that can easily and quickly move between use on a pistol and pistol caliber carbine.
The various embodiments and examples of the present invention as presented herein are understood to be illustrative of the present invention and not restrictive thereof and are non-limiting with respect to the scope of the invention. The present invention provides a muzzle booster that is designed to be quick detaching/quick connecting on the suppressor mating end, rather than threaded traditionally. Further, the spring is now retained by a standalone piston nut, and a conventional booster housing of the prior art designs is replaced by a booster slide, wherein the booster slide has lugs on the outside to create a quick detach system.
The present invention provides a quick coupling muzzle booster and suppressor adaptor system having a quick coupling muzzle booster and suppressor adaptor and rifle adaptor that can be coupled to a suppressor and mounted on a lock breech pistol or pistol caliber carbine. The quick coupling muzzle booster and suppressor adaptor system according to the invention provides wherein the quick coupling muzzle booster includes a booster slide with an external quick connect for coupling to the suppressor adaptor, and wherein the external quick connect of the booster slide includes a plurality of lugs corresponding to a proximal end of a housing of the suppressor coupling, and wherein the muzzle booster includes a booster piston that is coupled to a pistol. The quick coupling muzzle booster and suppressor adaptor system according to the invention may provide wherein the muzzle booster includes a booster piston nut with a spring, wherein the booster piston nut is coupled to the booster piston, and wherein the muzzle booster acts as what has been referenced as a linear inertia decoupler for a lock breech pistol.
These and other advantages of the present invention are described below in connection with the attached figures in which like reference numerals represent like elements throughout.
The present invention provides a quick coupling muzzle booster and suppressor adaptor system with a muzzle booster 110 and a suppressor adaptor 140 and direct rifle mount 160 (or rifle adaptor 160) that can be coupled to a suppressor 100, wherein the system may be mounted on a lock breech pistol 10 as shown in
As noted above, most pistols 10 made today are short recoil operated, also called locked-breech pistols. The short recoil action dominates the world of centerfire semi-automatic pistols, being found in nearly all weapons chambered for high-pressure pistol cartridges of 9×19 mm Parabellum and larger. These pistols 10 can more easily handle higher pressure cartridges because when the slide starts moving to the rear, the barrel moves with it.
Suppressors 100, also commonly referred to as “silencers” and sound moderators, are devices fixed to the end of a firearm such as pistol 10 and pistol caliber carbine 20, intended to muffle the sound of a shot being fired, and not to silence this sound. The suppressor 100 reduces the acoustic intensity of the muzzle report (i.e. sound of a gunshot) and the recoil when a gun 10 or 20 is discharged, by modulating the speed and pressure of the propellant gas from the muzzle and hence suppressing the muzzle blast. As noted above the sound of a gunshot from a gun with a suppressor is still loud, but is generally safe enough to avoid the operator from having to wear hearing protection (with the exception of some large calibers).
The silencer 100 may be generally conventional and be formed as a metallic (usually stainless steel or titanium) cylinder containing internal sound baffles, with a hollow bore to allow the projectile (bullet) to exit normally. During firing, the bullet flies through the bore with little hindrance, but most of the expanding gas ejecta behind it is retained through a longer and convoluted escape path created by the baffles, prolonging the release time. This slows down the gas and dissipates its kinetic energy into a larger surface area, reducing the blast intensity, thus lowering the loudness. The silencer 100, as is common in the art, is a detachable accessory and is mounted to suppressor adaptor 140 in the present invention as discussed below.
Pistol-Caliber Carbines 20, also known as PCCs, are shoulder-mounted long guns that are chambered in a pistol cartridge, such as 9 mm. Pistol-Caliber Carbines 20 are considered one of the best, most versatile firearm platforms available offering increased accuracy and terminal performance of a long gun with the reduced recoil of handgun rounds.
The suppressor adaptor 140 is shown in
The suppressor adaptor 140 includes a lug housing 142 which includes a suppressor attaching device such as external threads (not shown) on the distal end (farther from the muzzle of the gun 10 or 20) of the housing 142 that the suppressor 100 is threaded onto. Alternative suppressor couplings are possible, but threading is likely most common. The suppressor adaptor 140 will have threads matching a given set of suppressors 100 and different thread sizes may be provided via distinct housings to accommodate a range of suppressors 100. The user would obtain the suppressor adaptor with threads matching his particular suppressor.
The proximal end of the housing 142 includes three lug receiving openings and three lug retaining members that correspond to lugs on the muzzle booster 110 discussed below. Each lug retaining member will have a pocket or recess configured to receive a lug therein.
The suppressor adaptor 140 includes a lug piston 146 and a lug screw 144 with a spring 148 to bias the components into a locking position. The lug screw 144 is coupled to the housing 142 by threads.
The muzzle booster 110 is shown in
The muzzle booster 110 includes a booster piston 116 that is coupled to a pistol 10 in a conventional fashion, typically a threaded connection. The muzzle booster 110 includes a booster piston nut 114 with a spring 118. The booster piston nut 114 is coupled to booster piston 116 such as by threads. In an alternative configuration the booster piston 116 is minimized to accommodate a larger spring 118 and it is possible to construct the booster 110 without the slide extending down to the piston nut 114 to increase the space for a larger spring 118, however the preferred configuration is illustrated.
In operation with pistol 10, the suppressor adaptor 140 is coupled to the suppressor 100 and the muzzle booster 110 is coupled to the gun 10, both generally threaded couplings. The suppressor adaptor 140 is then coupled to the muzzle booster through the engagement of the proximal end of the housing 142 and the booster slide 112. In operation the muzzle booster 110 acts in a conventional fashion, in other words this may be referenced as the muzzle booster 110 acts as a mass absorber or what has been described as a “linear inertia decoupler” that decouples the mass of the suppressor 100 from the cycling action of the gun 10 via the booster slide 112 action.
The rifle direct mount or rifle adaptor 160 is shown in
When the user desires to use the suppressor 100 with a pistol caliber carbine 20 as shown in
The above description is representative of the present invention but not restrictive thereof. The full scope of the present invention are set forth in the appended claims and equivalents thereto.
This application claims the benefit of U.S. provisional Pat. application serial number 63-318,932 filed Mar. 11, 2022 titled “Quick Coupling Muzzle Booster and Suppressor Adaptor System for Locked Breech Pistols and Pistol Caliber Carbines” which is incorporated herein by reference.
| Number | Date | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 63318932 | Mar 2022 | US |
