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Combination Beverage Container and Spittoon
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 |
| 4974516 | Fragmentation bomb A fragmentation projectile such as a single or dual purpose grenade or bomblet for a cargo projectile comprising a fragmentation body enveloping an explosive charge carrying casing, which fragmentation body comprises one or more fragmentation rings notche... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4970960 | Anti-material projectile An anti-material projectile of trangible alloy for fragmenting due to impact shock on hitting a target thereafter penetrating the target causing damage. The projectile is preferably high density frangible alloy having a ratio of compressive to tensile str... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4947754 | System and method for penetrating orbiting targets Self-dissipating projectiles for use in anti-satellite weapons or warheads are made from suitable solid materials capable of sublimation after relatively short periods of time at the low pressures found in outer space. The material is suitably a volatile ... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4860659 | Tubular shell for artillery projectiles The tubular shell comprises: a casing having a fuse-carrying forward portion, a substantially cylindrical intermediate portion formed with an inside undercut delimited by a rear shoulder and a front shoulder, and a tapered rear portion; a base plug receiv... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4774889 | Armor-piercing projectile An improved armor-piercing inertial penetrator projectile having a prepenetrator which has a substantially uniform flight diameter D, over substantially its entire length. A prepenetrator assembly is formed by a plurality of elements which are adapted to ... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4753172 | Kinetic energy sabot projectile The projectiles possess high kinetic energy owing to the high velocity of the projectiles, on the one hand, and the high specific weight of the projectiles, on the other hand. The heretofore normally employed explosive and incendiary charges are replaced ... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4745864 | Explosive fragmentation structure An explosive, fragmentation structure having means for selectively controlling fragment size and configuration. The structure includes an outer casing having an inner surface defining a chamber and further includes means for propagating shock waves across... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4703696 | Penetrator for a subcaliber impact projectile A penetrator for a subcaliber impact or inertial projectile, especially a projectile adapted to pierce or break an armored target, which comprises a core of comparatively high density within a metallic housing or shell and in which the core is subdivided ... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4690062 | Warhead, especially for the attacking of radar installations A warhead for a nose-diving aircraft or missile utilized for the attacking of quasi-stationary targets which possess reducing or weakening armour along their vertical height, especially such as radar installations. The warhead has its explosive received w... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4612859 | Multiple purpose warhead The invention relates to a multiple purpose warhead which is provided with a spike-forming cladding, with projectile-forming layers and with preshaped splinters, respectively splinter layers. For the simultaneous combatting of hard and semi-hard material ... | 09/23/1986 |
| 4524696 | Explosive shrapnel shell An explosive shrapnel shell has a bursting charge having a front end, a layer of shrapnel laterally surrounding the charge except at the end, a fuse mounted on the front end, and shrapnel in the fuse. The fuse includes a detonator charge lying between the... | 06/25/1985 |
| 4493264 | Elastic fragmentation sleeve A means for augmenting the fragmentation of a lightly confined High Exploe Anti-Tank (HEAT) warhead so that it can be used as an area or interdiction weapon. Process involves the placement of an elastic sleeve over the HEAT warhead by the gunner in the f... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4398467 | Explosive fragmentation devices with coiled wire progressively varied An explosive fragmentation device such as a grenade or a mortar bomb has a casing formed from flat sided notched wire formed into a coil. Instead of coiling the wire so that sides of the coiled wire which are adjacent after coiling lie normal to the longi... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4388869 | Rotating rod warhead A warhead consisting of a bundle of cylindrical pellets or rods disposed in drum arrangement and means for rotating same to a speed having a given number of revolutions per unit of time, and a release actuator means for simultaneously releasing and disper... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4362563 | Process for the production of metallic formed members A process for producing a formed member, and a formed member which includes spherical fragments embedded in a metallic matrix is effected through cold pressure rolling. The spheres are arranged in the interspace between a basic support member, which may b... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4284007 | Projectile with at least one expellable subprojectile Projectile with at least one expellable subprojectile. The projectile is provided with a nose element, which is arranged, in a predetermined position in the trajectory of the projectile, to be discarded, thereby causing a decelerating force on the project... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4253375 | Loading head A loading head used for pressing grenades or other explosive containers i a projectile has an internal safety switch. The grenades have a transverse safety slider which normally remains in a retracted position but which can fail and extend into an armed ... | 03/03/1981 |
| 4216722 | Exploding bullet A small arms bullet containing an explosive charge that detonates on bullet impact to increase stopping-power. The bullet defines a medial cylindrical channel charrying explosive and a movable anvil. A cartridge primer in the forward part of the channel p... | 08/12/1980 |
| 4089267 | High fragmentation munition A high fragmentation munition such as an artillery shell, bomb, hand gren, and the like, wherein a casing containing a high explosive is positioned within and spaced from the inner wall of an outer casing whereby, upon detonation, the high explosive acce... | 05/16/1978 |
| 4037539 | Spiral channel blast-fragment warhead A cylindrical warhead having spiralling channels disposed along the peripy thereof. A center portion of the cylinder contains an explosive and axially located detonators.... | 07/26/1977 |
| 4036140 | Ammunition A hypervelocity ammunition round in which a fin stabilized artillery projile contains a plurality of subcaliber gun tubes for launching subcaliber fin stabilized flechette projectiles from the artillery projectile at a predetermined point in its trajecto... | 07/19/1977 |
| 3972286 | Bullet A ricochet-resistant bullet has a tip of impact frangible material, and a hollow casing filled with heavy particles, which may be wet or suspended in a liquid, and dispersible upon frangible impact of the bullet with a target.... | 08/03/1976 |
| 3961576 | Reactive fragment A fragment for an ordnance item having a blind recess within which are disposed a number of layers or pellets of thermite (Al-Fe2 O3) or a thermite-like metal-metal oxide mixture; the density of each layer being successively less tha... | 06/08/1976 |
| 3956989 | Fragmentation device A high explosive device with improved fragmentation is provided with a wall of wrought steel having a ferrite-martensite microstructure. This is obtained by heating in a temperature range in the ferrite-austenite region of the iron-carbon phase diagram un... | 05/18/1976 |
