PROJECTILE WITH TARGET CUTTING MEANS

• US 3,557,702 A
• Filed: 10/17/1968
• Issued: 01/26/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Daisy Manufacturing Company
• Original Assignee: Samuel L. Benson
• Inventors: Benson, Samuel L.
• Application Number:
  US04/768,480
• Time in Patent Office: 831 Days
• US Class Current: 102/513
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/08 with armour-piercing caps; with armoured cupola

Abstract

There is herein disclosed a projectile having target cutting means comprising a multiple edge serrated peripheral cutting rim located closely adjacent the front of the projectile.

Claims

1. A projectile having generally cylindrical peripheral configuration and a plurality of cutting means provided along the cylindrical periphery of the projectile, said cutting means comprising:

a plurality of circumferentially spaced raDially extending cutting edges intersecting the cylindrical periphery of the projectile, generally axially extending cutting edges intersecting said radially extending edges to form cutting points therebetween, the cutting points and edges being formed by generally triangularly shaped forwardly facing serrations, and there being more than four such serrations spaced about the periphery of the projectile.

2. The invention as defined in claim 1 and having a nose portion extending forwardly of said cutting points and edges so as to engage a paper target prior to engagement with the cutting points and edges.

3. The invention as defined in claim 2 and said nose portion having a central generally flat section and a rearwardly tapered section connecting the flat section to the radially extending edges.

4. The invention as defined in claim 1 and the serrations being of uniform size and shape spaced equally circumferentially about the cylindrical periphery of said projectile.

5. A projectile having an outer side surface of generally cylindrical peripheral configuration:

a nose portion on the front of the projectile;

circumferentially extending forwardly facing shoulder means spaced axially rearwardly of said nose portion;

a rearwardly tapered circumferentially extending intermediate surface connecting said nose portion to said shoulder means;

a plurality of serrations equally circumferentially spaced about said shoulder means, there being at least one serration in each quadrant; and

each serration comprising a pair of intersecting generally axially extending side surfaces forming a generally radially extending edge extending from the intersection of said shoulder means and said intermediate surface to the outer side surface and defining a cutting point at the intersection therewith.