Sabot slug for shotgun

• US 6,105,506 A
• Filed: 09/23/1997
• Issued: 08/22/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Antonio C. Gangale
• Original Assignee: Antonio C. Gangale
• Inventors: Gangale, Antonio C.
• Primary Examiner(s): TUDOR, HAROLD JAY
• Application Number:
  US08/935,877
• Time in Patent Office: 1,064 Days
• Field of Search: 102/439, 102/448, 102/507-510, 102/514-517, 102/520-523, 102/430, 102/501, 244/3.23
• US Class Current: 102/439
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 10/26 using spin F42B10/04, F42B10/12, F42B10/14, F42B10/24, F42B14/02 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/34 expanding before or on impact, i.e. of dumdum or mushroom type
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 14/064 Sabots enclosing the rear end of a kinetic energy projectile, i.e. having a closed disk shaped obturator base and petals extending forward from said base

Abstract

A sabot bullet having a jacket bullet body and a nonrotable sabot segments. The jacketed bullet has forward end portion, torso, and rear end portion. The forward end portion is constructed of multi-metals, having a tapered nose, hollow point with grooves to aid in the expansion. The torso is of solid single metal with outward tabs, which relates the slug when the sabot'"'"'s external surface comes in contact with the rifling in the gun barrel. The rear portion a single metal with a rear cavity to reduce the over all weight and increase the ratio to the forward portion of bullet. A bullet embodiment with external rifling and an armor piecing sabot round is also disclosed.

Claims

1. A cartridge, comprising:

an outer casing having a base, a lower casing section, a cartridge wall and a crimp, said base having a primer, said primer having a pocket filled with a propellant;

a cylindrical wad having a rear end portion, a rear cavity insert, said wad located within said outer casing, said rear cavity insert having a diameter, said rear end portion having a diameter larger than said rear cavity insert diameter;

a bullet having an outer jacket, a torso having a pair of outwardly extending radial tabs, a forward end portion, a rear portion having a rear hollow cavity, said torso tapered inwardly then outwardly toward said rear portion, said radial tabs being spaced 180 degrees apart from one another, said forward end portion having an inwardly tapered nose and a flair in a central region of said forward end portion, said forward end portion having a hollow portion and a plurality of longitudinally extending grooves within said jacket, said hollow portion of said forward end having a material body therein, said material having a hollow point extending downwardly toward said rear hollow cavity, said rear portion accepting said rear cavity insert of said wad, said bullet having a center of gravity;

a pair of cylindrical sabot segments each sabot segment extending halfway around the circumference of said bullet, said pair of sabot segments mating such that they create a cylindrical outer surface of said bullet, said sabot segments having inner surfaces which are complementary to surfaces of said bullet, said bullet and said sabot segments being non-rotatably connected to said radial tabs;

wherein said center of gravity of said bullet is positioned forwardly toward said forward end portion.

2. The projectile of claim 1 wherein said plurality of grooves comprises six grooves.

3. The projectile of claim 2 wherein said grooves are equidistant apart from one another.

4. The projectile of claim 1 wherein rifling is placed upon said sabot segments.

5. The projectile of claim 1 wherein said rear portion has a wall that tapers inwardly toward a rear end of said bullet.

6. A projectile, comprising:

a bullet having a torso, a solid forward end portion, and a rear portion having a rear hollow cavity, said torso having a pair of outwardly extending radial tabs and said torso tapering inwardly then outwardly toward said rear portion, said radial tabs being spaced 180 degrees apart from one another, said forward end portion having an inwardly tapered conical pointed front end;

a pair of cylindrical sabot segments, each of said sabot segments extending halfway around the circumference of said bullet, said pair of sabot segments mating such that they create a cylindrical outer surface of said bullet and said sabot segments having inner surfaces which are complementary to surfaces of said bullet, and said sabot segments and said bullet being non-rotatably connected to said radial tabs.