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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5171934 | Shortened shotshell with double-cupped wadding Shortened shotshells having a reduced length that allows one or more extra rounds to be carried in the magazine of a standard shotgun, and having substantially the same ballistic properties as standard shotshells, are obtained by using a reduced length sh... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5133261 | Devel small arms bullet A small arms projectile has a body that includes a larger cylindrical main body section and a smaller generally frusto-conical front body section with a plurality of curved veins or ribs mounted thereon that define the frusto-conical shape of the front bo... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5095831 | Shotgun shell with magnetized pellets A shotgun shell loaded with steel shot utilizes a number of magnetized steel pellets intermixed in the load in order to form clusters of pellets as the load is discharged from the shell to thereby improve the shot pattern of relatively lightweight steel s... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5000094 | Shotgun cartridge with explosive shell A shotgun cartridge (1) has an armour piercing shell (11) which includes a main charge (17) arranged to be detonated or exploded by direct percussion of a primer (12). The cartridge (1) includes a bore safe cylindrical arming device (16) integrally formed... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4996924 | Aerodynamic air foil surfaces for in-flight control for projectiles Aerodynamical air foil surface and subsurface expressions and/or impressions of varied geometrics, angles of attack, heights and depths, comprising part of a projectile surface itself to create McClain effect molecular friction/pressure/temperature reacti... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4913056 | Cartridge In a cartridge fitted with a gun-barrel projectile comprising a lead head and a resilient body joined to the head by a plug-in connection, the connection is designed to be a positive and exact fit, and the body is constructed with a forward end part adjac... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4913054 | Projectile delivery apparatus A projectile delivery apparatus for enhancing the penetration capability of a projectile including a friable capsule, which traverses the distance from a firearm to a preselected target while retaining the launch weight of the projectile intact, and a pro... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4881465 | Non-toxic shot pellets for shotguns and method A non-toxic shotgun pellet having ballistic characteristics similar to those of lead shot is made up of particles of a first alloy, containing primarily ferrotungsten, suspended in a matrix of a second alloy, containing primarily lead. The relative amount... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4867066 | Shotshell casing with reduced volume basewad and increased interior volume for larger shot loads An improved reduced volume plastic basewad for a shotshell casing includes a generally solid cylindrical plastic body portion, an annular outer continuous skirt portion merging integrally and upwardly from the body portion, and a raised annular inner cont... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4864934 | Industrial shotshell having a load-stabilizing assembly An industrial shotshell has a load, such as an iron slug, assembled with a press-fitted, wad column-containing outer cup and housed with the cup in its shell. The outer cup encloses a wad column and, when pressed fitted onto a larger diameter rearward por... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4815389 | Shot cartridge A shot cartridge suitable for use in automatic and semi-automatic pistols, characterized by a metal case terminated in a hemispherical crimp and a wad that expands to fill the barrel diameter of a pistol.... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4805535 | Projectile The present invention relates to projectiles that are particularly useful in guns having smooth bores, but it is equally useful in guns having either smooth or rifled bores. The present projectiles are cylindrical, tubular composites comprised of low dens... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4779535 | Slug assembly for shotgun shotshell A slug assembly for a shotgun shotshell having a case in which the slug assembly is incorporated, comprising a metal slug having a center axial cavity, an elastically deformable stabilizer which is fitted in the cavity, and a filler which is charged in th... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4714023 | Non-toxic shot A non-toxic wildlife shot pellet for shotgun shells and the like comprises a lead shot pellet having an essentially uniform coating of nickel-phosphorous alloys having a Rockwell hardness of at least 45.... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4686904 | Shell having pyramid shaped shot A shell formed of a casing having a propellant in it and a means of igniting the propellant, and shot formed of a plurality of metallic pellets each of a pyramid shape, that is, in the form of a polyhedron having a equilateral triangular base and equilate... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4676169 | Slug assembly for shotgun shotshell A slug assembly for a shotgun shotshell, having a slug which has a circular largest diameter portion, and which has at least one cylindroid portion consisting of inclined generatrices, a sleeve like spacer made of a plurality of split spacer elements coax... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4587905 | Wad and slug for a shotgun cartridge An assembly of a wad and a slug for a shotgun cartridge, the wad and the slug being coaxially connected to each other by means of male and female connectors provided on the wad and the slug without play between the connectors, the assembly comprising peri... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4509428 | Shotshell casing with partially telescoped basewad A single-piece plastic shotshell casing and method of making same comprising softening one end portion only of a tube of uniformly biaxially oriented high density polyethylene sufficiently for forming and until a dollup is formed, then telescoping only a ... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4454817 | Belted shotshell A shotshell having a dual rim or "belted" head design. The belt rim is of greater diameter than the maximum inside diameter of the chamber bore of a standard commercial shotgun of the same gauge size, thus preventing the belted shotshell from being fully ... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4454674 | Shotshell chamber A method of using standard commercial shotshells in a non-standard chamber is disclosed. The non-standard chamber is at least 1/2 mm larger in diameter than the shell of a continuous axial length of at least 3 mm immediately forward of the rim breeching b... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4428295 | High density shot A high density shot made of a cold-compacted mixture of at least two metal powders, a first one of such powders more dense than lead and a second one of such being flowable under compaction to serve as a binder. The shot has an extended range as compared ... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4383853 | Corrosion-resistant Fe-Cr-uranium238 pellet and method for making the same High density, generally microscopically homogeneous corrosion-resistant chromium-uranium metal alloys for ammunition use (particularly for spherical pellets or shot) can be made from U238 or an isotopic mixture high in U238 (such as ... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4301733 | Bullet for smooth bore shotguns A bullet for a smooth bore shotgun has a nose part preferably of metal and a base part preferably of plastic material. The two parts are assembled together, e.g. by engagement of a male projection on one of the parts into a female recess on the other of t... | 11/24/1981 |
| 4173930 | Dimpled shotgun pellets Dimpled shotgun pellets for use in a standard shotshell load (hunting or target; factory load or reloaded) in which the pellets are generally spherical in configuration with a plurality of concave dimples arranged on the outer surfaces thereof. The dimple... | 11/13/1979 |
| 3978794 | Base wad for shotshells A base wad for shotshells integrally constructed of non-linear polyethylene and a mineral from the class consisting of asbestos, barium carbonate, chalk, and talc in approximately equal portions by weight; said base wad being dimensionally stable, having ... | 09/07/1976 |
| 3952658 | Electrically fired superimposed projectile A superimposed charge projectile employing electrically actuated squibs with combinations of temperature and pressure fusing associated with each charge. Electrical conductors for the projectile are formed as a part of the longitudinal casing along the su... | 04/27/1976 |
