Ammunition and explosives – Projectiles – Composite
Patent
1992-03-23
1993-05-25
Brown, David H.
Ammunition and explosives
Projectiles
Composite
102439, 102448, 102521, F42B 1406
Patent
active
052142388
ABSTRACT:
A sabot for retaining therein a conventionally shaped tapered-nose bullet when the sabot is seated in place in a shotgun shell casing, so that the shotgun can be used to fire conventional lead or copper jacketed lead bullets in a shotgun. The sabot includes a unitary body having a cylindrical portion and a truncated conical portion, the cylindrical portion and the truncated conical portion sharing a common longitudinal axis, the conical portion having a wide diameter at one end thereof and a narrow diameter at the other end thereof, the narrow diameter end being adjacent to the cylindrical portion, the unitary body having longitudinally disposed therein a chamber, the longitudinally disposed chamber for receiving therein a conventionally shaped tapered-nose bullet, the unitary body being distortable such that the wide diameter of the conical portion can assume a diameter substantially the same as the interior diameter of the shotgun shell casing when the unitary body is inserted therein, the distortion of the unitary body causing impingement of the longitudinal chamber on the tapered-nose of the conventionally shaped tapered-nose bullet, said distortion for retaining in the longitudinal chamber the conventionally shaped tapered-nose bullet, release of the unitary body from the shotgun shell causing the unitary body to return to the undistorted shape thereof so as to release the conventionally shaped tapered-nose bullet.
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