GUN CARTRIDGE

• US 3,613,584 A
• Filed: 10/16/1968
• Issued: 10/19/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Grover E. Hendricks
• Original Assignee: Grover E. Hendricks
• Inventors: Hendricks, Grover E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Stahl, Robert F.
• Application Number:
  US04/767,995
• Time in Patent Office: 1,098 Days
• Field of Search: 102/93,94,92.6,38,92.4
• US Class Current: 102/439
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 14/06 Sub-calibre projectiles having sabots; Sabots therefor
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 7/10 Ball or slug shotgun cartridges

Abstract

A gun cartridge which includes a projectile having a body which is substantially reduced in cross section intermediate its length. A multiple-part casement fits around the projectile and is snugly seated within a casing of the ammunition cartridge and serves to center the projectile in the casing. The multiple-part casement has parts fitting in said reduced projectile part and is adapted to accompany the projectile from the casing and to fall away from the projectile during flight.

Claims

1. In a cartridge for use in a shotgun comprising a casing having a tubular sidewall and an end wall, a projectile disposed within said casing spaced from said end wall and defining with said casing a propellant chamber, a propellant charge disposed within said propellant chamber, a primer carried by said casing end wall, a multiple-part casement substantially encircling said projectile and snugly received within said casing, said casement releasably interlocked with said projectile so as to accompany said projectile out of said shotgun upon detonation of said propellant charge and thereafter separate from said projectile during flight, the improvement wherein said projectile includes a head portion and a coaxial body portion, said body portion having a part intermediate its length of reduced cross-sectional dimension and a rear end wall, said projectile having an axial recess which opens at said rear end wall of said body portion.