F42B 33/002
Orienting or guiding means for cartridges or cartridge parts during the manufacturing
Official title: {Orienting or guiding means for cartridges or cartridge parts during the manufacturing or packaging process; Feeding cartridge elements to automatic machines}
F42B33/002 (Orienting or guiding means for cartridges or cartridge parts during the manufacturing) appears on 79 US grants and 49 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F42B- Granted patents
- 79
- Published applications
- 49
- Assignees
- 30
- Inventors
- 128
- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Ammunition press and components thereof16 Jun 2026US 12,656,094 B2AOB Products Company
- Ammunition press and components thereof10 Mar 2026US 12,571,619 B2AOB Products Company
- Bullet feeder30 Dec 2025US 12,510,338 B2Armanov D.O.O.
- Ammunition decapping apparatus25 Nov 2025US 12,480,751 B2
- Multipurpose projectile apparatus, method of manufacture, and method of use thereof28 Oct 2025US 12,455,151 B2
- Ammunition press and components thereof6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227165 A1AOB Products Company
- Ammunition shell holder retention system23 Jul 2026US 2026/0210683 A1AOB Products Company
- Automatic Case Sorter11 Jun 2026US 2026/0160533 A1Double-Alpha Academy B.V.
- System for the automated production of ammunition5 Mar 2026US 2026/0063406 A1SwissP Defence AG
- Workpiece carrier for an automated production line for ammunition having at least two ammunition parts19 Feb 2026US 2026/0049800 A1SwissP Defence AG
Most cited
By later US patents
- In line bullet feeder236US 4,475,435 AMantel Machine Products, Inc. · 1984
- Reloading kit with lead free bullet composition203US 9,170,080 B2Alliant Techsystems Inc. · 2015
- Automatic shell feeding attachment for a reloading machine50US 5,335,578 A1994
- Primer feed device47US 4,223,588 A1980
- Method and apparatus to fill primer feed tubes43US 4,632,008 A1986