Patent ID: 9109851
Filing Date: 2015-08-18
Classification: F41A,F41G,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A process of manufacturing a rifle barrel having a sound suppressor, the process comprising the step of: forming a structure on the rifle barrel, including over-molding or over-injecting material over the rifle barrel so that the structure comprises a housing, the structure and the rifle barrel form an integral assembly, and the housing of the structure extends longitudinally and distally from a muzzle end of the rifle barrel; inserting a sound suppressing element of the sound suppressor inside the housing of the structure such that the structure couples the sound suppressing element to the rifle barrel and the sound suppressing element is entirely housed inside and radially surrounded by the housing, wherein the sound suppressing element comprises an acoustic labyrinth formed by two mating components fitted together along a longitudinal plane coextensive with an axis of the rifle barrel, the two mating components having opposing mating faces that are coplanar with the longitudinal plane.