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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4245556 | Projectile A spin stabilized projectile is arranged to have variable flight stability. he projectile has a casing with a cavity that contains a given mass of fluid. The cavity is shaped to provide a balanced flow of fluid with respect to the axis of spin as the proje... | 01/20/1981 |
| 4237787 | Incendiary projectile An incendiary projectile, particularly an armor-piercing projectile, including an incendiary composition constituted of a metal powder admixture as a reducing agent and an inorganic oxidizing agent; and a binding agent for converting these components into... | 12/09/1980 |
| 4228973 | Infantry projectile An infantry projectile includes an elongated projectile body having a cylindrical or frusto-conical surface concentrically arranged about its longitudinal axis. The projectile body has a leading end and a trailing end each extending transversely of the lo... | 10/21/1980 |
| 4225102 | Aerodynamic side-force alleviator means Apparatus for alleviating high angle-of-attack side force on slender pointed cylindrical forebodies such as fighter aircraft, missiles and the like and employing a symmetrical pair of helical separation trips to disrupt the leeside vortices normally attai... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4222330 | Magnetically tagging ammunition cartridges Magnetic particles, particularly ferrites, exhibiting a plurality of distinct Curie temperatures are disposed within standard center-fire or rimfire cartridge ammunition to provide a method for identifying cartridges. In one embodiment, magnetic particles... | 09/16/1980 |
| 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 |
| 4150624 | Bullet identification means A method for identification of bullets is provided whereby a coded insert is fitted within a cartridge to accompany a bullet in its trajectory and provide source information when recovered.... | 04/24/1979 |
| 4130061 | Gun fired projectile having reduced drag A fumer exhibiting reduced base drag and a high specific impulse is provided by using as the pyrotechnic charge in the projectile a composition comprising a metal powder/alkaline earth metal compound formulation containing at least about 20 percent by wei... | 12/19/1978 |
| 4109581 | Projectile for an infantry rifle The invention comprises a projectile for an infantry rifle or a light automatic weapon which comprises a solid projectile body made of soft iron made of an alloy of low carbon steels with less than 0.04% of carbon, 0.20% manganese, 0.05% to 0.18% of alumi... | 08/29/1978 |
| 4083138 | Close combat backup weapon An elongated tubular barrel is provided having front and rear end portions. The rear end portion of the barrel includes chamber structure for removably chambering a cartridge in the barrel. Firing pin structure for firing a cartridge chambered in the barr... | 04/11/1978 |
| 4065753 | Electromagnetically responsive projectile and system for detecting same A projectile is provided having contained therein a passive electromagnetically responsive device such as a tuned inductive-capacitive circuit. The circuit is preferably detected by stimulating oscillations at the resonant frequency of the circuit by a pu... | 12/27/1977 |
| 4058062 | Powerhead cartridge A 30-30 casing has sharpened rings formed in its enlarged base. Powder is packed in the casing, and it is sealed by inserting a primer portion, which is a 38 caliber pistol shell with a primer, in the open end of the packed casing and compressing the edge... | 11/15/1977 |
| 4027594 | Disintegrating lead shot Shot pellets formed from finely divided powder adhered together in pellet form by a thermoplastic polymeric material decomposable in the acid environment of the digestive tract of waterfowl.... | 06/07/1977 |
| 4020740 | Firearms for selectively continuous and non-continuous operation A firearm adjustable into single-shot, burst and continuous operation modes is described. For operation in one of the non-continuous modes, an indexing device disposed on the rear portion of a first lever in the firearm trigger mechanism is placed into en... | 05/03/1977 |
| 4005660 | Projectiles for air arms An improved pellet form for achieving relatively high muzzle velocity when discharged from the barrel of a gas rifle, particularly a high-performance air rifle, has a pellet head portion of any suitable profile and diameter providing a free-sliding but cl... | 02/01/1977 |
| 4003313 | Projectile A projectile having a conical wall interconnecting a rearwardly opening ptechnic cavity and the base of the projectile that is located substantially at the rearward peripheral or sidewall surface of the projectile. The discharging gases from the relative... | 01/18/1977 |
| 3998164 | Self-destruct delay fuze A conventional impact-sensitive fuze for an explosive projectile, compris a support frame having a transverse channel, containing an arming slider having a locking hole and a detonator, and an axial opening in which a firing pin is slidably mounted by me... | 12/21/1976 |
| 3952659 | Flattened spherical shot Shot for use in ammunition with each shot pellet having six equally spaced, substantially flattened faces joined by spherical portions which can be randomly packed in a container with a density about 14 per cent greater than the packing density obtained w... | 04/27/1976 |
| 3949677 | Small caliber projectile with an asymmetrical point A projectile of the type to be stabilized by rotation is formed with an asymmetrical point. In one embodiment a pair of unequal, diametrically opposed recesses are provided and apportioned so that the center of gravity of the projectile is located along t... | 04/13/1976 |
