Barrel assembly for non-lethal personal defense devices

Abstract

A barrel assembly for delivering non-lethal projectile (pepper ball, for example) to inhibit a living target, using various personal defense launching devices (paintball gun and other compressed-gas-powered launchers, for example), compact and automatic pistols as launching devices, method to launch pepper gel directly with a launching device, methods to effectively and swiftly rupture, spread and disperse the content of the non-lethal projectile to reach a target far away and at very fast speed, and tactical methods of the use of the barrel assembly, a barrel assembly has metal pins installed or built-in at the exit, said metal pins pinch and rupture the non-lethal projectile after said projectile has been accelerated inside the barrel. Variations of the pins include using gear-teeth, orifice or reduced inner diameter of the barrel at the exit, near the exit or in the middle of the barrel. A variation of the use of the barrel assembly is to launch more than one non-lethal projectile during one launch to increase the delivery dosage and covering areas.

1 . A barrel assembly for launchers for launching non-lethal projectiles, said projectiles contain disabling substance and are designed to rupture upon impact on target, comprising: 
 a launch barrel within the launcher body or attached to the launcher body;    a set of metal pins, blades, gear-teeth, metal mesh or an orifice coupled with the barrel, located inside the bore of the barrel at the exit, near the exit, in the middle of the barrel or right outside of the barrel at the exit.    
   
   
       2 . A method of non-lethally debilitating a target using a non-lethal projectile comprising a projectile body containing an inhibiting substance, such as pepper liquid, pepper powered and pepper gel, said method comprising: 
 launching a projectile at high speed from a launch device and rupturing the projectile by mechanical forces at the exit, near the exit or in the middle of the barrel of the launch device, dispersing the inhibiting substance contained in the projectile at the time of rupture, delivering the substance to the target in the form of spray, plume and/or mist.    
   
   
       3 . A CO 2  powered, highly compact and fully-automatic pistol for launching non-lethal projectiles, the pistol is mainly consisted of 
 a trigger mechanism;    a bolt assembly and    a valve assembly.    
   
   
       4 . A CO 2  powered, highly compact and fully-automatic pistol for launching pepper gel spray, the pistol is mainly consisted of 
 a trigger mechanism;    a bolt assembly and    a valve assembly.    
   
   
       5 . A method of non-lethally disabling a target using pepper gel said method comprising: 
 launching a plug of pepper gel at high speed from a launch device, said pepper gel plug is accelerated in the barrel of the launch device by high pressure gas,    dispersing said pepper gel plug at exit of the barrel, delivering the pepper gel to the target in the form of spray, plume and/or mist.