Patent ID: 8167084

Claim:
A sound suppressor for use with a firearm, comprising: a housing having a major axis, and exterior and an interior chamber, a first end and an opposing second end, said housing having plural slots formed therein each slot of said plural slots being formed through said housing from said exterior to said interior chamber and curving over a portion of the circumference of said housing along said major axis; a muzzle fitting attached to said first end of said cylindrical body, said muzzle fitting having a hole formed therein; an end cap attached to said opposing second end of said cylindrical body, said end cap having a hole formed therein, said hole of said end cap being aligned with said hole of said muzzle fitting; a blast baffle in said interior chamber of said cylindrical body, said blast baffle having a hole formed therein, said hole of said blast baffle being aligned with said hole of said muzzle fitting, said blast baffle initially separating combustion gases from the firing of a round of ammunition through said hole into a first portion that passes through said hole of said blast baffle and a second portion that moves radially with respect to said hole of said blast baffle; and plural baffles being inserted into said slots from said exterior and attached to said housing, each baffle of said plural baffles having a central hole formed therein and passage formed to include a portion of the circumference of said baffle radial to said central hole, said passage of said each baffle not being aligned with a next passage of an adjacent baffle so that said second portion of said combustion gases does not pass in a straight line through said each passage and said next passage but is urged by said each baffle to interact with said first portion of said combustion gases so that said first and said second portions of said combustion gases are slowed and cooled.