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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7975616 | Bullet for black powder firearms A projectile for cap and ball revolvers and black powder rifles including but not limited to muzzleloaders, black powder cartridges etc. A soft lead body, cylindrical in form and having a front band designed to hold the projectile firmly in place prior to firing. Du... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7900561 | Reduced friction projectile A projectile includes a leading part formed by a tip, a tip base, and a leading rod. A trailing part includes a main base, a truncate base, and a trailing rod. A leading end of a cylindrical interface abuts an annular shoulder where the tip meets the tip base and a ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7380505 | Muzzleloading firearm projectile A muzzle loading firearm projectile is disclosed that is composed of a multi diameter, hollow base solid copper bullet, the rear cavity filled with a material of low-density, and a gas pressure seal that separates the bullet from the powder charge. The majority of t... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7302891 | Firearm projectile with enhanced aerodynamic properties A firearm projectile includes a central section, a forward or leading section, and a rear or trailing section. A step down is provided between the central section and the trailing section such that the cross sectional area of the trailing section is less than the cr... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7197984 | Sub-caliber projectile, penetrator and sabot enabling such a projectile A sub-caliber projectile incorporating a penetrator and a sabot formed of several segments, the penetrator and sabot incorporating profiles that cooperate with one another so as to ensure the axial drive of the penetrator by the sabot when the projectile is being fi... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7040237 | Munition loading device The invention provides a self-aligning device for aiding the engagement of a munition into a rifled gun barrel on loading of the munition, absent the use of a driving band, as, for example, in the case of a munition which is fitted with aerodynamic tail fins. The de... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6971315 | Reduced-contaminant deformable bullet, preferably for small arms Currently, 9 mm×19 mm caliber cartridges in the form of full-jacketed round-head bullets are used for small arms, especially for arms used by police. For safety reasons, efforts are being made to replace these bullets with a type of bullet that is prevented from pa... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6827020 | Spin-stabilized projectile having a multi-part guide band and method of making the projectile A spin-stabilized projectile has a projectile body and a guide band being circumferentially mounted on an outer face of the projectile body. The guide band includes a plurality of axially adjoining partial guide bands. One of the partial guide bands is a first parti... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6782830 | Obturator for large caliber smooth bore ammunition An obturator having redundant surfaces for sealing between a projectile and a gun tube, where the obturator has at least one gun tube side cannelure. At least one projectile side cannelure is located opposite to the at least one gun tube side cannelure, where the at... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6776102 | Projectile body A projectile body having a groove-shaped recess (2), in which a guide band (3) is disposed. To permit use of a relatively wide guide band (3), while preventing the band from being destroyed as the projectile body (1) passes through the gu... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6769364 | Full-caliber projectile A full-caliber projectile having a cylindrical guide region (5) and an ogival projectile tip (7). To improve the stabilization of the projectile (1) inside a gun barrel (2) in a simple manner, and therefore improve the intermediate ballis... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6600126 | Shell with a shell body and a process for the preparation of radially protruding guiding means on a shell body Guiding means being arranged on a surface area of a shell are made of high purity nickel by build-up welding. This avoids a drag-in of copper into a gun barrel foreseen for the launch of a shell. A production of the guiding means in the build-up welding p... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6536353 | Spin-stabilized projectile having a multi-part guide band and method of making the projectile A spin-stabilized projectile has a projectile body and a guide band being circumferentially mounted on an outer face of the projectile body. The guide band includes a plurality of axially adjoining partial guide bands. One of the partial guide bands is a ... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6453821 | High-temperature obturator for a gun-launched projectile An obturator is provided for a projectile launched from a gun barrel. The obturator includes an annular ring that is fabricated from a high-temperature resistant composite material. The annular ring has an inner surface that is in contact with the project... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6431076 | Firearms A method of minimising misfiring or alleviating their consequences is provided by forming at least each trailing projectile (30) in a series of housed projectiles with a sealing portion (34) extending about a tapered anvil portion (31) and moveable therea... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6363856 | Projectile for a small arms cartridge and method for making same A projectile for small arms, incorporating a core, skirt, and driving band. The present invention's design acts to increase muzzle velocity in three main ways. The core is lightweight, therefore, the same amount of propellent will cause the present invent... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6343553 | Firearms This invention provides a projectile assembly (10) having a body part (14) including a trailing portion (19) which reduces in diameter rearwardly and supports a sealing band (16) having a substantially cylindrical outer face for engagement with the bore (... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6295934 | Mid-body obturator for a gun-launched projectile An obturator is provided for a projectile launched from a gun barrel. The projectile has a mid-body annular groove that includes a shaped surface. The obturator includes an annular ring having an inner surface in contact with the shaped surface of the ann... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6085662 | Spin stabilized projectile with metal band The invention concerns a spin-stabilized projectile provided with a metal band (4). The projectile comprises a projectile body divided into a front main portion (1) and a rear main portion (2). The main portions are joined at the stern part of the project... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6070532 | High accuracy projectile A projectile having improved accuracy when fired over long ranges is formed from a monolithic block of a copper alloy. Proceeding from a nose to a heel of the projectile, is a fore portion with arcuate side walls, a body portion of substantially constant ... | 06/06/2000 |
| 5909003 | Projectile rotating band A projectile rotating band (7) is firmly connected, through openings (9) in the projectile casing (2), to a sealing section (10) at the rear of the projectile inside the projectile casing (2). The rotating band (7) is formed together with the sealing sect... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5682011 | Sealing ring arrangement for a spin-stabilized projectile A spin-stabilized projectile includes a projectile body having a trailing end; a first circumferential groove provided in the projectile body; and a second circumferential groove provided in the projectile body between the first circumferential groove and... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5408931 | Shotgun ammunition Ammunition is disclosed for firing a shotgun slug from a rifled shotgun having a range of about 300 meters. The shotgun ammunition comprises a cartridge, propellant, a fiber wad, and a slug. The slug includes a nose having a parabolic cross-section, a fru... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5394805 | Sabot for projectiles of RAM accelerators and projectiles equipped with such a sabot The sabot (16) relates to a projectile (11) which can be accelerated in an accelerator comprising a tubular preaccelerator followed by RAM acceleration tubes. It consists of an outer band (18) which is designed in a way to be attached to the radial fins (... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5297492 | Armor piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot tracer projectile An improved small caliber armor piercing projectile (10) having a fin stabilized sub-caliber high density rod penetrator (11) and an adequately large tracer cavity (23). The tracer cavity does not degrade the armor penetrating capability of the projectile... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5198616 | Frangible armor piercing incendiary projectile The projectile, adapted to be fired from an automatic cannon, comprises a frangible porous brittle generally cylindrical casing made of a molded sintered powder material preferably consisting predominantly of 60 to 100% type 316 stainless steel powder mix... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5189254 | Sealing band for an arrow-type projectile The technical sector of the invention is that of sealing bands for arrow-type munitions. The sealing band (5) according to the invention is arranged in an annular groove (9) of a sabot (2) of an arrow-type projectile, and is characterized in that it compr... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5164540 | Slipping driving band for projectiles of any caliber The technical field of the invention is that of slipping driving bands fitted to projectiles of any caliber fired from a rifled barrel. The slipping driving band according to the invention consists of a driving band boby 8 and a front ring 7 arranged in a... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5027711 | Propulsion mechanism for a subcaliber projectile A propulsion mechanism for a subcaliber projectile, wherein the propulsion mechanism possesses a close-fitted zone in common with the projectile for subjecting a gas pressure-receiving surface to a load caused by the propellent gases; for the utilization ... | 07/02/1991 |
| 4930395 | Projectile for electric rail guns A projectile intended to be fired from an electric rail gun having spaced current-carrying rails between which the projectile is accelerated when fired, includes an armature mounted on the projectile and arranged to make contact simultaneously with the ra... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4736666 | Alignment ring for mold-in-place projectile A method of manufacturing a sabot projectile is disclosed in which the projectile core is used as the core pin of a mold and a sabot is molded directly onto and in alignment with the projectile core and the core nose is held by a special alignment ring.... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736686 | Missiles with annular cutter element within fairing portion A missile having a kinetic energy warhead is disclosed comprising a two-tiered cutter element (12) of fragmenting material and a forward cutter ring (16). The arrangement is designed so that the forward cutter ring (16) penetrates the target outer skin wh... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4712465 | Dual purpose gun barrel for spin stabilized or fin stabilized projectiles and gun launched rockets A gun barrel and projectile system utilizes a smooth central bore gun barrel fitted with a short rifled insert near the breech end. A projectile fitted with a perforated skirt and driving band about the base of the skirt are loaded into the gun barrel so ... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4459894 | Mold-in-place sabot projectile A method of manufacturing a sabot projectile is disclosed. The projectile core is used as the core pin of a mold and the sabot is molded directly onto and in alignment with the projectile core.... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4457207 | Barrel chamber An improved gun barrel is disclosed in which the breech chamber has a length (B) and diameter (D2) which are chosen relative to the axial spacing (a) between a forward guiding ring (8) and a rearward driving band (6) of the ammunition unit to b... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4441429 | Retainer for a projectile rotating band A retainer for attaching a rotating band to a projectile during handling ramming of the projectile. The retainer cooperates with a groove on the projectile and is discarded during firing of the projectile by the force of the charge. An interlocking doub... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4249465 | Projectile In a projectile comprising a projectile body which is surrounded by separable guide means for said body in a barrel and/or has a separable propulsion member disposed between it and a propellant container, spin-producing passages adapted to be penetrated b... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4109582 | Twist-reducing rings for stabilized projectiles An improved construction and support for a twist-reducing ring carried on a stabilized projectile is described. The ring, which is rotatably supported in an annular groove in a portion of the projectile jacket, is formed from a plurality of circumferentia... | 08/29/1978 |
| 4047466 | Projectile fall-back prevention means In a breech-loading gun loaded by first ramming a projectile into the gun rrel to a firing position therein and then inserting a separate propelling charge, unlimited fall-back of the projectile from the firing position is prevented by means of an annular... | 09/13/1977 |
| 3999486 | Ballistics and high pressure seals This invention discloses a new type of seal for providing a barrier to the flow of high temperature gas at ballistics pressures, and having ordnance application and other application where it is desired to seal against the leakage of high temperature, hig... | 12/28/1976 |
