Training cartridge

• US 6,439,123 B1
• Filed: 08/30/2000
• Issued: 08/27/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems - Canada, Inc. (General Dynamics Corporation)
• Original Assignee: SNC Technologies, Inc. (General Dynamics Corporation)
• Inventors: Gauthier, Nathalie, Dionne, Sylvain
• Primary Examiner(s): TUDOR, HAROLD JAY
• Application Number:
  US09/651,108
• Time in Patent Office: 727 Days
• Field of Search: 102/430, 102/434, 102/439, 102/444, 102/447, 102/464, 102/530
• US Class Current: 102/430
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 5/02 Cartridges, i.e. cases with charge and missile

Abstract

A telescopic training round has an inner sealant disc with a central hole to ensure against gas leakage as the casing expands telescopically.

Claims

1. A telescopically expanding cartridge for use in blow-back operated firearms comprising:

1) a casing with a head end portion including a cartridge head end fitted to a sleeve and a chambering portion at least partially positioned within said sleeve;

2) the chambering portion being telescopically interfitted with said sleeve with a containing engagement, said chambering portion having a forward end, remote from the head end, and a rearward end defining a cavity containing a propellant to evolve gas on firing;

3) the chambering portion comprising a longitudinal passageway extending from its forward end to its rearward end;

4) a recess or protrusion formed in the rearward end of the chambering portion;

5) a sealing disc having a complementary disc protrusion or disc recess interfitted into said recess or protrusion and an annular portion overlying the rearward end of the chambering portion, extending to form at its outer circumferential perimeter a sealing contact with said sleeve,

wherein the sealing disc is pierced by a hole to allow a metered release through the longitudinal passageway of gas evolving from within the cartridge cavity upon firing.

2. A cartridge as in claim 1 wherein said sealing disc comprises a frangible membrane covering said hole.

3. A cartridge as in claim 1 wherein a rim extends from the outer circumferential perimeter of the sealing disc to lie between the chambering portion and the cartridge sleeve.

4. A telescopically expanding cartridge for use in blow-back operated firearms comprising:

1) a casing with a head end portion including a cartridge head end fitted to a sleeve;

2) a chambering portion at least partially positioned within said sleeve, said chambering portion having a forward end remote from the head end, and a rearward end telescopically interfitted with said sleeve with a containing engagement;

3) a primer for initiating the evolvement of gas upon firing;

4) the casing and chambering portion defining a cavity for containing gas evolved on firing;

5) the chambering portion comprising a longitudinal passageway extending from its forward end to its rearward end to allow for gas to escape from the cavity; and

6) a sealing disc overlying the rearward end of the chambering portion,

wherein the sealing disc extends to form at its outer circumferential perimeter a sealing contact with said sleeve and wherein said sealing disc is provided with a pathway to allow a metered release of gas evolving from within the cartridge cavity into the longitudinal passageway upon firing.

5. A cartridge as in claim 4 wherein said chambering portion comprises a recess or protrusion formed in its rearward end and said sealing disc comprises a complementary disc protrusion or disc opening interfitted with said chambering portion recess or protrusion to position the sealing disc on the chambering portion.

6. A cartridge as in claim 4 wherein a rim extends from the outer circumferential perimeter of the sealing disc to lie between the chambering portion and the cartridge sleeve.

7. A cartridge as in claim 5 wherein a rim extends from the outer circumferential perimeter of the sealing disc to lie between the chambering portion and the cartridge sleeve.

8. A cartridge as in claim 6 wherein the rearward end of the chambering portion carries a circumferential flange and said rim carries a hooked lip that engages with said flange with a snap-fit.

9. A cartridge as in claim 8 wherein the circumferential flange has an outer edge that is conically bevelled to receive the sealing disc in said snap-fit engagement.

10. A cartridge as in claim 9 wherein the sealing disc has a complementary shaped surface that lies against the conically bevelled edge.

11. A cartridge as in claim 4 wherein the sealing disc comprises around its outer circumferential perimeter a rearwardly-directed sealing flange that bears against the inner wall of the sleeve.

12. A cartridge as in claim 5 wherein the sealing disc comprises around its outer circumferential perimeter a rearwardly-directed sealing flange that bears against the inner wall of the sleeve when said chambering portion comprises said protrusion and said disc comprises said disc opening.

13. A cartridge as in claim 6 wherein the sealing disc comprises around its outer circumferential perimeter a rearwardly-directed sealing flange that bears against the inner wall of the sleeve.

14. A cartridge as in claim 7 wherein the sealing disc comprises around its outer circumferential perimeter a rearwardly-directed sealing flange that bears against the inner wall of the sleeve when said chambering portion comprises said protrusion and said disc comprises said disc opening.

15. A cartridge as in claim 8 wherein the sealing disc comprises around its outer circumferential perimeter a rearwardly-directed sealing flange that bears against the inner wall of the sleeve.

16. A cartridge as in claim 9 wherein the sealing disc comprises around its outer circumferential perimeter a rearwardly-directed sealing flange that bears against the inner wall of the sleeve.

17. A cartridge as in claim 10 wherein the sealing disc comprises around its outer circumferential perimeter a rearwardly-directed sealing flange that bears against the inner wall of the sleeve.