Patent ID: 9658021
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: F41A

Claim:
1. A pull through gun cleaning device comprising: a mandrel comprising a spiral or helical trough disposed in an outer cylindrical surface of said mandrel and a tunnel disposed at about each of a first end of said mandrel and a second end of said mandrel, said tunnel having an angle with respect to a central axis of said mandrel; a pull cord comprising a cable member covered by a tubular woven sheath, said pull cord threaded through said tunnel at said first end of said mandrel, wrapped around said mandrel in said spiral or helical trough disposed in said outer cylindrical surface of said mandrel and threaded through said tunnel at said second end of said mandrel to form a mandrel cleaning section, said pull cord extending on at least one side of said mandrel cleaning section a length beyond said mandrel cleaning section to serve as said pull cord of said pull through gun cleaning device; wherein a total length of said pull cord is configured such that where said mandrel cleaning section is inserted into one end of a barrel of a weapon for which said pull through gun cleaning device is adapted to clean, said pull cord extends past another end of said barrel; and wherein an outside diameter of said mandrel cleaning section is configured such that where said mandrel cleaning section is inserted into one end of said barrel said mandrel compresses to provide a radial force pressing said tubular woven sheath of said pull cord against an inside surface or a rifling of said barrel.