Patent ID: 7073691

Claim:
A caulking gun for dispensing caulking material enclosed within a tube having a nozzle, said caulking gun comprising: a rotatable barrel cage for holding the caulking tube wherein said rotatable barrel cage has an inner inverted U-shaped lip; a trigger housing releasably attached to said barrel cage wherein said trigger housing has a circumferential outwardly extending lip for engaging said U-shaped lip of said rotatable barrel cage; a trigger assembly pivotably attached to said trigger housing; a pistol rod extending longitudinally positioned within said barrel cage and attached said trigger housing; a push plate releasably attached to said piston rod that is used to extrude caulking material out of said tube by having said push plate move within the tube of caulk when said trigger assembly is squeezed and wherein when said plush plate is removed from said piston rod, said barrel cage can be disengaged from said trigger housing and said caulking gun thereby is more easily stowable than when said carrel cage is attached to said trigger housing.