BULLET

• US 20120067245A1
• Filed: 09/15/2011
• Published: 03/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Video Gaming Technologies Incorporated (Aristocrat Leisure Limited), OLIN Corporation
• Original Assignee: Video Gaming Technologies Incorporated (Aristocrat Leisure Limited)
• Inventors: Masinelli, Kyle A.
• Granted Patent: US 9,046,333 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 102/516
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/34 expanding before or on impact, i.e. of dumdum or mushroom type
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/367 Projectiles fragmenting upon impact without the use of explosives, the fragments creating a wounding or lethal effect practice or training projectiles disintegrating upon impact F42B8/14; projectiles of high-explosive type with fragmentation-hull construction F42B12/22
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/74 of the core or solid body
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/78 of jackets for smallarm bullets ; Jacketed bullets or projectiles
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 30/02 Bullets

Abstract

A bullet having a jacket, having a rear section, and a front section, having an open front end; a rear core disposed in the rear section of the jacket and bonded thereto; and a front core, separate from the rear core, disposed in the front section of the jacket, adjacent the open front end. The front section of the jacket can expand after impact with the target and release the front core to form an initial volume of disruption, while the rear core and at least the rear section of the jacket penetrate, past the initial volume of disruption.

Claims

1. A bullet comprising:

a jacket, having a rear section, and a front section, with an open front end;

a rear core disposed in the rear section of the jacket and bonded thereto; and

a front core, separate from the rear core, disposed in the front section of the jacket, adjacent the open front end.

2. The bullet according to claim 1 wherein the rear section of the jacket is closed.

3. The bullet according to claim 1 wherein the rear core and the front core are made of different materials.

4. The bullet according to claim 1 wherein the rear core and the front core are made of the same material.

5. The bullet according to claim 1 wherein the jacket is made of copper or a copper alloy.

6. The bullet according to claim 1 wherein the front and rear cores are made of lead or a lead alloy.

7. The bullet according to claim 1 wherein the front core is made of a friable material.

8. The bullet according to claim 7 wherein the friable material is made from consolidated powdered metal.

9. The bullet according to claim 1 wherein the jacket has at least one notch on its interior surface between the rear section and the front section.

10. A bullet comprising:

a jacket, having a rear section, and a front section, having an open front end;

a rear core disposed in the rear section of the jacket and bonded thereto;

a front core, separate from the rear core, disposed in the front section of the jacket, adjacent the open front end; and

the open front end of the jacket opening the front section of the jacket after impact with the target and releasing the front core to form an initial volume of disruption, while the rear core and at least the rear section of the jacket, penetrate past the initial volume of disruption.

11. The bullet according to claim 10 wherein the rearward section of the jacket is closed.

12. The bullet according to claim 10 wherein the rear core and the forward core are made of different materials.

13. The bullet according to claim 10 wherein the rear core and the forward core are made of the same material.

14. The bullet according to claim 10 wherein the jacket is made of copper or a copper alloy.

15. The bullet according to claim 10 wherein the forward and rearward cores are made of lead or a lead alloy.

16. The bullet according to claim 10 wherein the forward core is made of a friable material.

17. The bullet according to claim 10 wherein the friable material is made of consolidated powdered metal.

18. The bullet according to claim 10 wherein the jacket has at least one notch on its interior surface between the rearward section and the forward section.