Pellet for sporting rifles and sporting guns

• US 9,157,711 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2011
• Issued: 10/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gamo Outdoor
• Original Assignee: Gamo Outdoor
• Inventors: Tresserras Torre, Victor, Arnedo Vera, Julian
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Benjamin P
• Application Number:
  US13/817,600
• Publication Number:
  US 20140216294A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,673 Days
• Field of Search: 102/439, 102/502, 102/503, 102/517, 102/518, 102/519, 102/508
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/78 of jackets for smallarm bullets ; Jacketed bullets or projectiles
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 30/02 Bullets
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 6/10 Air gun pellets ; Ammunition for air guns, e.g. propellant-gas containers

Abstract

It comprises hollow body (6) with head (2) joined to base (3), in which inside of said hollow body (6) contains tip (4) fixed to referred body (6) characterised in that: tip (4) is fixed in an immobile manner to body (6) and there is at least one lateral space or cavity (5) defined between body (6) and tip (4) and said body (6) is manufactured from an elastic material, at least around the zone where said space or cavity (5) is defined.

Claims

1. A pellet for sporting rifles and sporting guns comprising:

a hollow body comprising a body head portion joined to a body base portion, and an upper zone, the body having an internal surface and an external surface;

a tip having an external surface and fixed in an immobile manner inside the hollow body, wherein the tip comprises a spindle or bar portion having a first diameter, a tip head portion comprising a lower part and a lateral wall, the lower part connected to a beginning of the spindle or bar portion and transitioning from the first diameter to the lateral wall, the lateral wall having a constant second diameter over a predefined height, wherein the second diameter is larger than the first diameter, and

a space or cavity defined between the internal surface of the body and the external surface of the tip in the lower part of tip head portion and the beginning of spindle or bar portion, wherein

said body comprises elastic material, at least in a deformable zone that defines said space or cavity one or more portions of external surface of body are wider in diameter than a diameter of the upper zone, and the internal surface of the upper zone of said body is in contact with the external surface of the lateral wall of the tip at least along a portion of the lateral wall height.

2. The pellet according to claim 1, wherein base consists of elastic materials.

3. The pellet according to claim 1, wherein base comprises exterior fins that define a lower cavity.

4. The pellet according to claim 1, further comprising an absorption zone at an end of body head portion.

5. The pellet according to claim 4, wherein the absorption zone comprises a step defined by the tip, which absorption zone comprises a portion of lateral wall that extends beyond an upper perimeter of the body head portion.

6. The pellet according to claim 4, wherein the upper zone of body head portion in contact with the tip comprises reinforced material.

7. The pellet according to claim 1, wherein the tip fits inside the base of the pellet, and the tip lateral wall is fixed by the upper zone of the body head portion and protrudes from the top of the body.

8. The pellet according to claim 7, wherein a base zone of the body comprises internal comprises lateral grooves configured to permit air to escape between the internal surface of the body and the external surface of the tip when the tip is inserted within the body.

9. The pellet according to claim 7, wherein the spindle or bar comprises gripping means configured to grip the base.

10. The pellet according to claim 1, wherein said gripping means for the base comprise threads.

11. The pellet according to claim 1, wherein said gripping means for the base comprise transversal projections on the spindle or bar.

12. The pellet according to claim 7, wherein the base comprises gripping means configured to grip the spindle or bar.

13. The pellet according to claim 7, further comprising a stud or protuberance at a bottom of the hollow body on which a base of the spindle or bar is positioned.

14. The pellet according to claim 1, wherein a portion of the tip extends beyond the body and has a rounded geometry.

15. The pellet according to claim 1, wherein the head portion of the body of the pellet has lines or geometry that are a continuation of lines or geometry of an exterior part of the head portion of the tip.

16. The pellet of claim 12, wherein the gripping means comprise vertical projections inside the base that press against spindle or bar and define lateral grooves between adjacent vertical projections.

17. The pellet of claim 16, wherein one or more portions of external surface of body are wider in diameter than a diameter of the upper zone.

19. The pellet of claim 16, wherein said body comprises elastic material, at least in a deformable zone that defines said space or cavity.

18. A pellet for sporting rifles and sporting guns comprising:

a hollow body comprising a body head portion joined to a body base portion, and an upper zone, the body having an internal surface and an external surface;

a tip having an external surface and fixed in an immobile manner inside the hollow body, wherein the tip comprises a spindle or bar portion having a first diameter, a tip head portion comprising a lower part and a lateral wall, the lower part connected to a beginning of the spindle or bar portion and transitioning from the first diameter to the lateral wall, the lateral wall having a constant second diameter over a predefined height, wherein the second diameter is larger than the first diameter, and

a space or cavity defined between the internal surface of the body and the external surface of the tip in the lower part of tip head portion and the beginning of spindle or bar portion, wherein the internal surface of the upper zone of said body is in contact with the external surface of the lateral wall of the tip at least along a portion of the lateral wall height.