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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 1989
Filed:
May. 09, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Alan I Mossberg, Hamden, CT (US);
Assignee:
O. F. Mossberg & Sons, Inc., North Haven, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F41C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
42 7601 ; 89 1405 ;
Abstract
A firearm having a movable barrel including an axially elongated smooth bore. The barrel moves in an axial direction and simultaneously rotates about its axis when a round of slug ammunition is discharged by the firearm whereby to impart rotary motion to the slug as it travels through the bore so that the slug is rotating about its axis of trajectory as it leaves the muzzle of the firearm and travels toward a target.