Training cartridge

• US 3,090,309 A
• Filed: 02/19/1962
• Issued: 05/21/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Arthur H. Burns Jr
• Original Assignee: Arthur H. Burns Jr
• Inventors: Burns, Arthur H. Jr.
• Application Number:
  US04/174,228
• Time in Patent Office: 456 Days
• US Class Current: 102/444
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 7/12 Cartridge top closures, i.e. for the missile side closures for blasting cartridges F42B3/24

Claims

1. A DOG TRAINING CARTRIDGE COMPRISING A REGULAR SHOT SHELL OF A GIVEN GAUGE HAVING A PRIMED END AND OPPOSITE SAID END A CARTRIDGE CLOSURE INTEGRAL WITH SAID SHELL, A LESS THAN REGULAR CHARGE OF EXPLOSIVE PROPELLANT IN SAID SHELL ADJACENT SAID PRIMED END, AN INTERVENING WAD OF FRANGIBLE MATERIAL PRESSED OVER SAID PROPELLANT, AND A CHARGE OF CELLULOSIC MEAL COMPRESSED IN SAID SHELL AGAINST SAID WAD TO FORM FOR DISINTEGRATING UNDER SHELL FIRING A COLUMN OF SAID MEAL OF PREDETERMINED GRANULATION AND COMPRESSION EXTENDING BETWEEN SAID WAD AND CLOSURE, SAID CLOSURE SEALING SAID COLUMN AND BEING NONDISINTEGRATING AND TOGETHER WITH SAID COLUMN AND WAD BEING OPERATIVE TO OBTURATE SAID SHELL AND PRODUCE WITH SAID CHARGE AN AUDIBLE REPORT SUBSTANTIALLY INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE REPORT OF A REGULAR SHELL CONVENTIONALLY LOADED TO INCLUDE SHOT.