Patent ID: 7836624

Claim:
A gun cleaning kit comprising: at least two gun cleaning rods, each of the cleaning rods having a different diameter and a threaded end; a universal handle having a horizontal width greater than a vertical width, the handle comprising: a center section having a top and a bottom; a pair of opposing elongated campanular ends, each end having a base adjacent to the center section and a distal apex; a horizontal midline disposed between the apices, the midline defining generally mirror-image upper portion and lower portions; a cavity formed in the center section, the cavity extending from the top of the center section to the bottom of the center section such that the cavity opens on the top and the bottom of the center section, the cavity having a first portion with a first width at the top of the center section and a second portion with a second width at the bottom of the center section; a threaded receiver disposed in the first portion of the cavity of the center section and integrated in the handle center section top, the receiver having a first exterior width corresponding to the first width of the first portion of the cavity; a threaded receptacle disposed in the second portion of the cavity of the center section and integrated in the handle center section bottom, the receptacle having a second exterior width corresponding to the second width of the second portion of the cavity; the threaded receiver and the threaded receptacle having different interior diameters, the interior diameter of the receiver corresponding to the diameter of a first one of the at least two cleaning rods and the interior diameter of the receptacle corresponding to the diameter of a second one of the at least two cleaning rods; wherein each of the receiver and the receptacle selectively removably and threadingly receive one of the at least two gun cleaning rods.