MUMBAI, India, Oct. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541036953 A) filed by Ordnance Factory Tiruchirappalli on April 16, 2025, for “automated Barrel Breeching System And Method Thereof”.
Inventors include M. Vishnu; and G. Sivakumar.
The application for the patent was published on October 23, 2026, under issue no. 43/2026.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a field of rifle making. The automated barrel breeching system (100) comprises at least one servo motor (101), plurality of sensors (103), one or more pneumatically operated clamps (104), plurality of linear motion (LM) guideways (105), plurality of ball screws (106), at least one tower lamp (107). The front-end barrel assembly components are breeched over the barrel of the rifle in a linear motion. The instant torque from the servo motor (101) is converted to linear movement by the ball screws (106). Advantageously, the present invention uses an automated fixture to breech the front-end barrel assembly components and the barrel of the rifle by eliminating the use of traditional manual operated barrel breeching fixture.
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