Deformable high volocity bullet

• US 8,434,410 B2
• Filed: 12/15/2010
• Issued: 05/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Salem A. S. Alsalem
• Original Assignee: Salem A. S. Alsalem
• Inventors: AlSalem, Salem A. S.
• Primary Examiner(s): BERGIN, JAMES S
• Application Number:
  US12/968,384
• Publication Number:
  US 20120152144A1
• Time in Patent Office: 874 Days
• Field of Search: 102/501, 102/507, 102/508, 102/509, 102/510, 102/516, 102/517, 102/518, 102/374, 102/375, 102/376, 102/439, 102/519
• US Class Current: 102/439
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/34 expanding before or on impact, i.e. of dumdum or mushroom type

Abstract

A round of ammunition for an assault rifle or the like includes a cartridge and a bullet or projectile. The cartridge includes a rear portion and a forward portion with a reduced diameter while the rear portion is dimensioned to fit into the breach of a rifle and defines a hollow chamber or interior volume for a mass of gun powder and primer. The forward portion of the cartridge joins a bullet. The bullet includes a bullet shaped rounded lead tip and an aerodynamically shaped forward portion including a tapered shell and a solid cylindrically shaped lead middle portion. The forward portion also includes an axial steel rod between the tip and the middle portion. The bullet also includes a rear portion including a tapered shell surrounding a second hollow chamber with a small opening in the distal part of the bullet.

Claims

1. A deformable high velocity bullet, said bullet consisting of:

a rounded solid tip of lead having a generally rear flat surface, an aerodynamically shaped forward portion defining a hollow chamber, a middle substantially cylindrical shaped solid portion of a pre-selected caliber made of lead and a rear aerodynamically shaped portion defining a second hollow chamber and said forward portion including a tapered steel shell extending into said rounded tip and into said solid middle portion and surrounding said hollow chamber in said forward portion and an axially extending steel rod in contact with and extending between said rear flat surface of said rounded tip and said solid middle portion and said rear portion including an outer steel tapered shell surrounding said hollow chamber in said rear portion and defining a small opening at a distal end of said bullet and said outer steel tapered shell extending from said solid middle portion to said opening.

2. A round of ammunition for an assault rifle or the like, said round of ammunition consisting of:

a cartridge having a rear portion and a forward portion and a bullet attached to said forward portion of said cartridge and wherein said rear portion is constructed and dimensioned to fit into a barrel of a firearm and said forward portion is constructed and dimensioned to fit into the barrel of the firearm and wherein said rear portion defines an interior volume, a mass of gun powder contained in said interior volume of said rear portion, a primer pocket and a mass of primer disposed therein behind and in contact with said mass of gun powder and adapted to receive an impact from a firing pin to ignite said gun powder and said bullet adapted to be propelled out of said barrel by ignition of said gun powder and said bullet consisting of;

a rounded solid tip of lead having a generally flat rear surface, an aerodynamically shaped forward portion defining a first hollow chamber in said forward portion, a middle substantially cylindrical shaped solid portion of a pre-selected caliber made of lead and a rear aerodynamically shaped portion defining a second hollow chamber and said forward portion including a tapered steel shell extending into said rounded tip and into said solid middle portion and surrounding said first hollow chamber in said forward portion and an axially extending steel rod in contact with and extending between said rear flat surface of said rounded tip and said solid middle portion, and said rear portion including a second outer tapered steel shell surrounding said second hollow chamber and defining a small opening at a distal end of said bullet and said second outer tapered steel shell extending from said solid middle portion to said opening whereby gases infused into said second hollow chamber from ignition of said gun powder escape through said small opening at the distal end of said bullet to contribute to the propulsion of said bullet and wherein said bullet has the following dimensions, bullet diameter 5.7 mm (0.224 in.), neck diameter 6.43 mm (0.253 in.), shoulder diameter 9.0 mm (0.354 in.), base diameter 9.58 mm (0.377 in.), rim diameter 9.60 mm ( 0.378 in.), rim thickness 1.14 mm (0.045 in.), case length 44.70 mm (1.760 in.) and overall length 57.40 mm (2.260 in.) and wherein said middle portion has a length equal to about ⅓

the overall length of said bullet.