Randall G. Habbe - Pocahantas IL Herman N. Bockstruck - Alton IL
Assignee:
Olin Corporation - Stamford CT
International Classification:
B21K 2106
US Classification:
29 123
Abstract:
A reverse taper jacketed bullet has a tubular jacket in the form of a continuous wall defining a cavity and a one-piece core disposed in the jacket cavity. The jacket has opposite heel and mouth portions and an intermediate portion interconnecting the heel and mouth portions. The jacket wall is thicker at the intermediate portion than at either the heel or mouth portion thereof so as to define a reverse taper configuration along the intermediate and heel portions which bulges inwardly at the intermediate portion interior relative to the heel portion interior. The reverse taper configuration provides an inside diameter at the jacket intermediate portion that is less than at the jacket heel portion and in such manner produces a constriction that interlocks the lead core and jacket together. The reverse taper configuration of the jacket wall is formed in final draw step by insertion of a punch having an hour glass shaped or reverse taper configured end portion into an elongated predrawn cup. The final drawing produces a thicker wall at the location of the intermediate portion of the jacket than at the location of the heel or mouth portion thereof.
A shotshell having a dual rim or "belted" head design. The belt rim is of greater diameter than the maximum inside diameter of the chamber bore of a standard commercial shotgun of the same gauge size, thus preventing the belted shotshell from being fully chambered in a standard commercial shotgun.
A method of using standard commercial shotshells in a non-standard chamber is disclosed. The non-standard chamber is at least 1/2 mm larger in diameter than the shell of a continuous axial length of at least 3 mm immediately forward of the rim breeching bevel. By conventional standards this would appear to be unsafe yet the method has been determined to be quite safe and allows commercial shotshells to be used in a chamber designed for combat shotshells which will not fit into standard commercial shotgun chambers of similar gauge size.