Hunting bullet with reduced aerodynamic resistance

• US 7,814,837 B2
• Filed: 09/09/2004
• Issued: 10/19/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jean-Claude Sauvestre
• Original Assignee: Jean-Claude Sauvestre
• Inventors: Sauvestre, Jean-Claude
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee; Benjamin P
• Application Number:
  US10/571,591
• Publication Number:
  US 20070028793A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,231 Days
• Field of Search: 102/503, 102/507, 102/508, 102/509, 102/510, 102/517, 102/518, 102/519, D22/116
• US Class Current: 102/508
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/34 expanding before or on impact, i.e. of dumdum or mushroom type

Abstract

The invention relates to ammunition for hunting guns.

The bullet is of the type comprising an internal shaft (4) with a rigidity equal to or greater than that of the body of the bullet, disposed in a hole drilled in the body of the bullet along its axis, and this internal shaft (4) is set back from the orifice (8) of the hole, the latter, situated on the axis, has a smaller diameter than that of the internal shaft (4), and the wall of the ogival head (3) of the bullet body (2) comprises one or more deformation notches close to the orifice of the hole.

Applicable to the improvement of the terminal efficiency of small, medium or large caliber hunting guns with the caliber of the gun or undersizes.

Claims

1. A bullet for a small, medium or large caliber gun, with the caliber of the bullet of the type comprising an internal shaft with a rigidity greater than that of the body of the bullet, disposed in a blind hole drilled in the body of the bullet along its axis and which opens on the front ogival head of the bullet, characterized in that the internal shaft is set back from the orifice of the hole, and wherein the orifice of the hole situated on the axis has a smaller diameter than that of the internal shaft, and the wall of the ogival head of the bullet body comprises one or more deformation notches close to the orifice of the hole, the one or more deformation notches made by a narrowing of the ogival head, which comprises a nose and a rear portion, separated by the one or more deformation notches, and a cavity of conical or cylindro-conical shape, with the cavity having a large base, which is delimited by the front face of the internal shaft, and with a diameter of the cavity being larger than the diameter of the hole encompassing the shaft, and with the ogival rear portion smoothly narrowing to the base of the nose of the ogive, with the base widening to a cross-section slightly larger than the top of the rear portion.

2. The bullet as claimed in claim 1, wherein the narrowing is situated at the base of the conical or cylindro-conical internal cavity formed in front of the internal shaft or slightly in front of this base.

3. The bullet as claimed in claim 2, wherein the narrowing made in the wall of the ogive forms a deformation notch between the large base of the ogival nose and the front end of the rear portion of the ogive, the height of the deformation notch lying between 0.05 and 1 mm.

4. The bullet as claimed in claim 1, wherein the internal cavity is cylindro-conical in shape and the narrowing is situated at the line where the conical and cylindrical surfaces meet.

5. The bullet as claimed in claim 4, wherein the narrowing made in the wall of the ogive forms a deformation notch between the large base of the ogival nose and the front end of the rear portion of the ogive, the height of the deformation notch lying between 0.05 and 1 mm.

6. The bullet as claimed in claim 1, wherein the narrowing made in the wall of the ogive forms a deformation notch between the large base of the ogival nose and the front end of the rear portion of the ogive, the height of the deformation notch lying between 0.05 and 1 mm.

7. The bullet as claimed in claim 1, wherein the ratio of the diameter d₁ of the orifice to the diameter d of the internal shaft lies between 0.1:

1 and 0.9;

1.

8. The bullet as claimed in claim 1, wherein the nose of the ogive comprises a flat nose whose external diameter d₂ is such that the ratio of the external diameter of the flat nose to the diameter d of the internal shaft d₂/d lies between 0.3:

1 and 1.5;

1.

9. The bullet as claimed in claim 8, wherein the ratio d₂/d lies between 0.6:

1 and 1;

1, while the diameter d₁ of the orifice is such that the ratio of the diameter of the orifice to the diameter d₁ of the internal shaft d₁/d lies between 0.3;

1 and 0.6;

1.

10. The bullet as claimed in claim 1, wherein the narrowing is situated at the base of the conical or cylindro-conical internal cavity formed in front of the internal shaft or slightly in front of this base.

11. The bullet as claimed in claim 1, wherein the internal cavity is cylindro-conical in shape and the narrowing is situated at the line where the conical and cylindrical surfaces meet.

12. The bullet as claimed in claim 1, wherein the narrowing made in the wall of the ogive forms a deformation notch between the large base of the ogival nose and the front end of the rear portion of the ogive, the height of the deformation notch lying between 0.05 and 1 mm.

13. The bullet as claimed in claim 1, wherein the nose of the ogive comprises a flat nose whose external diameter d₂ is such that the ratio of the external diameter of the flat nose to the diameter d of the internal shaft d₂/d lies between 0.3:

1 and 1.5;

1.

14. The bullet as claimed in claim 1, wherein the nose of the ogive comprises a flat nose whose external diameter d₂ is such that the ratio of the external diameter of the flat nose to the diameter d of the internal shaft d₂/d lies between 0.3:

1 and 1.5;

1.

15. The bullet as claimed in claim 1, wherein the nose of the ogive comprises a flat nose whose external diameter d₂ is such that the ratio of the external diameter of the flat nose to the diameter d of the internal shaft d₂/d lies between 0.3:

1 and 1.5;

1.