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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Harold F. Beal, Rockford, TN (US);
Assignee:
Doris Nebel Beal Intervivos Patent Trust, Pawleys Island, SC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F42B 1/202 ; F42B 1/274 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F42B 1/202 ; F42B 1/274 ;
Abstract
A projectile for gun ammunition of 50 caliber or less, the projectile including an outer jacket having a longitudinal centerline and which houses one or more cores made up of a powder or mixture of powders comprising a frangible disc including a central region thereof formed of a compressed unbonded quantity of particles of at least one metal powder and an outer peripheral skin defined by melded ones of said at least one metal powder particles. Manufacture of the disc, a projectile including the disc and a round of gun ammunition including the disc-containing projectile are disclosed.