Bullet

• US 3,972,286 A
• Filed: 11/05/1974
• Issued: 08/03/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jack Y. Canon
• Original Assignee: Jack Y. Canon
• Inventors: Canon, Jack Y.
• Primary Examiner(s): Engle, Samuel W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tudor, Harold
• Application Number:
  US05/521,084
• Time in Patent Office: 637 Days
• Field of Search: 102/91, 102/92, 102/92.2, 102/92.3, 102/92.4, 102/92.7, 102/38, 102/42, 102/42 C, 102/41, 102/53, 102/67
• US Class Current: 102/438
• 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 7/04 of pellet type

Abstract

A ricochet-resistant bullet has a tip of impact frangible material, and a hollow casing filled with heavy particles, which may be wet or suspended in a liquid, and dispersible upon frangible impact of the bullet with a target.

Claims

1. A spin stabilized bullet for rifled bore small arms comprising a hollow open-ended missile casing formed for releasable coupling with a cartridge carrying a propellant charge, said casing being of substantially cylindrical form over at least the major portion of its length such that said major cylindrical portion defines substantially the full caliber of the bullet, said casing having a closed base end, said casing enclosing a multiplicity of heavy discrete shot particles freely separable from each other at least upon impact with a target after firing, and a separate tip extending into and frangibly sealed to and closing the open end of said hollow casing, said tip being of impact frangible material which will disintegrate into numerous particles upon impact with a target, said casing and tip being of such dimensions, materials and configurations as to constitute an integral bullet sized spin stabilized missile resistant to deformation or destruction during firing in a rifled bore and until impact with a target to break said frangible seal and release said multiplicity of shot particles to scatter outwardly separately in the target.

2. A bullet as claimed in claim 1 wherein said casing, said tip, and said shot particles are of distinct preformed construction so as to be assembleable and disassembleable.

3. A bullet as claimed in claim 2 wherein said tip is of a material different from said casing.

4. A bullet as claimed in claim 1 wherein said casing and said shot particles are formed of different materials.

5. A bullet as claimed in claim 1 wherein said casing and said tip are formed of different materials.

6. A bullet as claimed in claim 1 wherein said tip is blunted or rounded.

7. A bullet as claimed in claim 1 wherein said open end of said casing is crimped about said tip.

8. A bullet as claimed in claim 1 wherein said tip is of a plastic material.

9. A bullet as claimed in claim 1 wherein said shot particles are of metal.

10. A method of making the bullet of claim 1 comprising inserting into said hollow casing said multiplicity of heavy shot particles through said open end, inserting said tip so as to close said open end, and securing said tip therein.

11. A method as claimed in claim 10 wherein said securing is by crimping said open end about said tip.

12. A bullet as claimed in claim 1 mounted in, closing and releasably coupled to the open end of a cartridge carrying a propellant charge, said cartridge being crimped about said casing.

13. A spin stabilized multi-component bullet assembly for rifled bore small arms comprising a hollow missile casing for releasable coupling with a cartridge carrying a propellant charge, said casing having a closed base end, at least a major portion of said casing being of substantially cylindrical configuration and defining substantially the full caliber of the bullet, impact frangible closure means comprising a separate tip extending into and closing the other end of said casing, said tip being of impact frangible material which will disintegrate into numerous particles upon impact with a target, and a multiplicity of discrete shot particles enclosed in said hollow casing, said casing and closure means being of such dimensions, materials and configurations as to constitute an integral bullet sized spin stabilized missile resistant to substantial deformation or destruction during firing in a rifled bore and until impact with a target whereupon to break said frangible closure means and release said multiplicity of shot particles to scatter outwardly separately in the target.

14. A bullet as claimed in claim 13 wherein said shot particles and said casing are of distinct preformed constructions so as to be assembleable and disassembleable.

15. A bullet as claimed in claim 14 wherein said shot particles and said casing are formed of different materials.