Hollow point payload capsules

• US 8,794,155 B1
• Filed: 10/11/2013
• Issued: 08/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HP Associates
• Original Assignee: HP Associates
• Inventors: Calvert, S. Mill
• Primary Examiner(s): DAVID, MICHAEL D
• Application Number:
  US14/051,821
• Time in Patent Office: 298 Days
• Field of Search: 102/512, 102/502, 102/438, 102/439, 102/513
• US Class Current: 102/512
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/40 of target-marking, i.e. impact-indicating type F42B12/48, F42B12/50 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/46 for dispensing gases, vapours, powders or chemically-reactive substances F42B12/70 takes precedence

Abstract

A system includes an incomplete cartridge for a firearm and a field-selectable capsule for the cartridge. The capsule contains a product that may tag a person for tracing, induce sleep, cause disease, or have other effects. Capsules are preferably removably adhered to a strip with each strip of capsules potentially serving a different purpose. The incomplete cartridge includes a bullet that has an opening at the payload end. The opening receives and retains a capsule upon insertion. The capsule is made of a frangible material that releases the product upon impact. The capsule may be formed with a snap-in ridge extending from its exterior wall, which snaps into a complementary recess in the bullet opening. Alternatively, the capsule may be coated with a contact adhesive so that it sticks to the bullet wall defining the opening. A peel-off covering atop the strip shields the contact adhesive from contamination.

Claims

1. A system comprising an incomplete cartridge and a field-selectable payload, the field-selectable payload loadable in the incomplete cartridge to make a loaded and complete cartridge, the field-selectable payload deliverable to a target when the loaded and complete cartridge is fired from a firearm,

wherein the field-selectable payload comprises a bullet and a capsule containing a product;

the system further comprising a strip removably adhering a plurality of the capsules;

wherein the incomplete cartridge comprises the bullet, a firing end and a payload end, the payload end defines an opening in the bullet, the opening is structured to receive and retain the capsule when the payload end is pressed against the capsule on the strip; and

said capsule comprising a frangible material that releases the product from the payload end after impact of the bullet having been fired from the firearm.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the capsule comprises an exterior wall and a snap-in ridge extending from the exterior wall;

and wherein the opening has a complementary recess to accept the snap-in ridge.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a contact adhesive applied to each capsule in the plurality of the capsules; and

a peel-off covering atop the strip that shields the contact adhesive on the plurality of the capsules.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the product is selected from the group consisting of:

a tranquilizer agent, a deadly poison, a nerve agent, a sickness-inducing agent, a sleeping agent, an infectious agent, a disease-causing agent, a dye, a radioactive marker, and a radio frequency identification integrated circuit.