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A combination beverage container and spittoon includes a bottom portion including outer wall and a first inner wall defining a spittoon space.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7997205 | Base drag reduction fairing A projectile may include a base drag reduction fairing preform adapted to be plastically deformed into a base drag reduction fairing after the projectile is launched from a gun barrel. ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7823510 | Extended range projectile A projectile and method of extending the range of the projectile. The projectile includes a storage tank operable to release a working fluid through an exhaust manifold to at least partially fill a wake aft of the projectile during projectile flight. ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7802520 | Drag minimizing projectile delivery system A modified cartridge assembly including a projectile having a gas generator proximate its aft end. The projectile includes an aft closure having a cavity filled with gas generating material. The gas generating material is ignited around the time the projectile exits... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7578238 | Base bleed boat tail converter for projectile A projectile may be used in a boat tail or base bleed configuration. The projectile includes a warhead casing having a nose end and a base end; a payload disposed in the warhead casing; a motor body attached to the base end of the warhead casing and having an ignite... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7360355 | Long range artillery shell A long range artillery shell having a rocket motor which comprises a combustion chamber (shown filled with solid propellant 9, burn inhibitor 10, igniter material 13 and propellant support 11,12) which has at one end a plenum chamber 8... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7331294 | Rifled slug A rifled slug is provided with a metal head (1) and a plastic rear part (2), which is made as a single piece from a pin-shaped front part (5), with a rod-shaped middle part (6) joined to the rear of the front part, and with a plunger-shap... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327549 | Systems and methods for target impact An apparatus for impact with a target includes electrodes deployed after contact is made between the apparatus and the target. Spacing of deployed electrodes may be more accurate and/or more repeatable for more effective delivery of an immobilizing stimulus signal. | 02/05/2008 |
| 7267298 | Method for correcting the flight path of ballistically fired spin-stabilised artillery ammunition At very low apparatus expenditure, namely with a canard system which is adjustable in a single-axis mode, it is possible to achieve a spatially two-dimensional trajectory correction in respect of the artillery ammunition which in itself is unguided, with the additio... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7255044 | Projectile having circumferential members for varying a base cone angle of the projectile as a function of speed A method for enhancing an aerodynamic performance of an unmanned projectile. The method including at least one of the following: (a) morphing a cross-sectional shape of the projectile after launch thereof; (b) morphing a longitudinal shape of the projectile after la... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7185846 | Asymmetrical control surface system for tube-launched air vehicles Asymmetrical Control Surface System for Tube-Launched Air Vehicles places one control surface, such as a wing or a horizontal tail, above horizontal midplane axis of an air vehicle, such as a tube-launched missile, and the opposing control surface below the midplane... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7163176 | 2-D projectile trajectory correction system and method A 2-D correction system uses intermittent deployment of aerodynamic surfaces to control a spin or fin stabilized projectile in flight; correcting both crossrange and downrange impact errors. Intermittent surface deployment develops rotational moments, which create b... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7042696 | Systems and methods using an electrified projectile An apparatus for immobilizing a target includes electrodes deployed after contact is made between the apparatus and the target. Spacing of deployed electrodes may be more accurate and/or more repeatable for more effective delivery of an immobilizing stimulus signal.... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7036434 | Kinetic energy projectile with in-flight extended length A length of a rod of an axial kinetic energy projectile is increased as the projectile flies to the target. The projectile includes a nose, a rear, and a base rod. The base rod has a forward member, a rearward member, and a connection between the forward member and ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6935242 | Methods and apparatus for increasing aerodynamic performance of projectiles A method for enhancing an aerodynamic performance of an unmanned projectile. The method including at least one of the following: (a) morphing a cross-sectional shape of the projectile after launch thereof; (b) morphing a longitudinal shape of the projectile after la... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6923123 | Methods and apparatus for increasing aerodynamic performance of projectiles A method for enhancing an aerodynamic performance of an unmanned projectile. The method including at least one of the following: (a) morphing a cross-sectional shape of the projectile after launch thereof; (b) morphing a longitudinal shape of the projectile after la... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6862996 | Projectile for rapid fire gun An ammunition system for a rapid fire gun. The ammunition system includes a bullet having a tip that is stored in a retracted position and during flight is deployed create an aerodynamic shape. Another aspect of the ammunition system is that the bullet has a cylindr... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6748871 | Guided artillery missile with extremely long range The present invention relates to an artillery missile (1) intended for firing on a ballistic trajectory, with gliding characteristics which can be put into effect, after it has reached the summit of this trajectory, to increase the maximum range of the missil... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6543364 | Less lethal multi-sensory distraction grenade A launchable, multi-sensory distraction grenade including a base, three outer grenade walls arranged together on the base to pivotally move from a first position, to a second position, extending outward laterally from the base in different directions, to ... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6435097 | Protective device for deployable fins of artillery projectiles A low cost protective cap that will offer protection of deployable fins for full bore artillery projectiles. A form fitting, composite cap that disintegrates on muzzle exit acts as a protective measure. The cap interfaces with the projectile obturator to ... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6405653 | Supercavitating underwater projectile A supercavitating underwater projectile adapted to be fired from a gun or the like, comprising a front end or nose portion and a rear end portion. An auxiliary rocket motor is disposed within the rear end portion of the projectile for providing additional... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6352218 | Method and device for a fin-stabilized base-bleed shell The present invention relates to a method and a device designed for use with such shells (1) that are equipped with a base-bleed unit (8) for extended range and which during the first phase of their trajectory are spin-stabilised but which in the subseque... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6336609 | Method and device for a fin-stabilized base-bleed shell The present invention relates to a method and a device relating to shells with deployable fins and which are fired from large caliber guns into ballistic trajectories, for preventing the propellant gas pressure in the barrel during firing from directly or... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6305288 | Propellant charge module The present invention relates to a propellant charge module for artillery guns, of the type which is usually referred to by the term "modular charges" (1). A special feature of this type is that, in an otherwise empty pyrophoric relay tube (10) arranged a... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6297486 | Base drag reducing device A device for reducing base drag on cylindrical rear truncated objects moving in a fluid, caused by the shedding of vortices at the base of the object. The device consists of ring shaped winglets attached to the rear of the object which may be sub-divided ... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6213023 | Base bleed unit Base bleed unit comprising a surrounding housing (1) surrounding at least one mass flow generating gun powder charge (7), and having at least one outlet hole (6, 6') extending through a rear wall (3) of the housing (1), in which also at least one igniter ... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6158349 | Gas generator for a projectile A gas generator adapted to be disposed in a rear part of a projectile for increasing the flight range thereof, includes a housing defining a combustion chamber and having a bottom and a longitudinal axis; a fuel accommodated in the combustion chamber; an ... | 12/12/2000 |
| 5886289 | Long range artillery shell A long range artillery shell (1) comprising rocket propellant material (10), a rocket motor nozzle (14) and base bleed propellant material (12). Ignition of the rocket propellant material (10) is delayed until the base bleed propellant material (12) has s... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5798478 | Ammunition projectile having enhanced flight characteristics An ammunition projectile of enhanced flight characteristics, having a boat tail portion and including a circular land provided on the rear surface of the boat tail portion and concentric with the longitudinal centerline of the projectile, the land having ... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5656792 | Projectile A ballistic projectile including a subcaliber-sized penetrator which is coaxially carried in the casing of the projectile, and in which the penetrator additionally carries an explosive charge. The projectile possesses a proximity fuze at its tip which ele... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5639985 | Groove drag mitigation To mitigate groove drag in a kinetic energy projectile, an intumescent maial is inserted in the grooves wherein the material will expand to fill the grooves once the sabot has been discarded. The groove material inhibits aerodynamic recirculation that ca... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5578783 | RAM accelerator system and device A method for accelerating projectiles comprises introducing the projectile into an accelerator barrel, feeding a combustible gas mixture into said barrel and igniting said mixture to accelerate the projectile, and is characterized in that a fluid is store... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5353711 | Extended range artillery projectile The disclosure is of an artillery projectile including a projectile body taining, among other things, a rocket motor at the front of the projectile and coupled to nozzles in the body of the projectile through which burning propellant gases flow.... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5141175 | Air launched munition range extension system and method A device having pop-out wings and a guidance and control system is detachably mounted on a munition such as a bomb and is used to extend the range capability of the munition. Prior to launch, the wings are folded together. The control system is contained ... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5056436 | Solid pyrotechnic compositions for projectile base-bleed systems The invention is directed to a solid, pyrotechnic composition as a base-bleed composition for reducing the base-drag of non-self-propelled projectiles. The composition comprises a oxygenated hydrocarbon component and an oxidizing agent component.... | 10/15/1991 |
| 4964341 | Projectile with ram air-extendible probe and ram air-extendible probe assembly therefor An extendible probe projectile and an extendible probe assembly therefor, in which the extendible probe reduces drag on the projectile in its extended position and is moved to its extended locked drag-reducing position by ram air action which is converted... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4930420 | Seal for the nozzle opening of a projectile A projectile includes a propellant charge and a nozzle opening provided in a rear projectile part and serving as an exit for propellant charge gases during flight of the projectile; a resilient rupturnable rubber or plastic sealing disc closing the nozzle... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4930422 | Ejectable, imperviously sealing device especially for rockets with munitions A device for the impervious sealing of a structure, for example a munitions compartment of a rocket, is disclosed. This device comprises an elastic shaped section inside which the edge of the structure and rim of a lid are imperviously embedded. This devi... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4917335 | Apparatus and method for facilitating supersonic motion of bodies through the atmosphere Atmospheric drag and heating of the forwardmost portions of high speed transatmospheric vehicles and projectiles are reduced by lowering the atmospheric mass density immediately forward of a moving body. A fine high speed stream or jet of a material conta... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4846071 | Base-bleed gas generator for a projectile, shell or the like A supporting cupola is provided for the propellant of a base-bleed gas generator for a projectile, shell or the like. The supporting cupola is arranged in the discharge aperture of the gas generator and provides a reduced gas outlet area from the base-ble... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4813635 | Projectile with reduced base drag A projectile having a downstream extending surface of revolution which terminates as a blunt base has a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart U-shaped, downstream extending troughs in its surface. Each trough is essentially aligned with the directio... | 03/21/1989 |
