Muzzle-loaded expanding projectiles for firearms; kits for manually producing expanding projectile for muzzle-loaded firearms; and method for producing expanding muzzle-loaded projectiles
AssigneeOx-Yoke Originals, Inc.
InventorsRobert S. Lee, C. Edward Bottomley
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Abstract
A system modified so that an axial ram rod, centering jag and configuring die can be used to simultaneously tamp or size a projectile while forming the projectile into a hollow-nose type which mushrooms when configuring a spherical or double-ogival projectile into the mushrooming-type; and a kit comprising a case and sealing lid enabling a user in the field to optionally select a centering jag conforming to the caliber of the weapon being loaded, and for optionally forming a hollow-nose projectile with a "punch" characteristic in accordance with the nature of the target.
Claims39
In a muzzle-loading system for weapons, comprising barrel means for receiving, serially, a powder charge means, patch means, and projectile means, and ram-rod means for tamping the charge, the improvement wherein said ram-rod means includes centering jag means at one end of the ram-rod means, said centering jag means having a diameter corresponding to the caliber of the weapon being loaded and being slightly under bore diameter, and a configuring die means on the terminal end of the centering jag means for forming a desired configuration in the projectile means simultaneously as the charge is tamped whereby a newly configured projectile is provided.
A projectile for use in a muzzle-loading system for weapons, said projectile comprising malleable material, said projectile being spherical, the spherical projectile having an embossed configuration whereby the projectile flys with the embossed configuration forward, and the projectile is of the hollow-nose type.
A projectile for use in a muzzle-loading system for weapons, said projectile comprising a double-ended ogive in which one end has an embossed configuration whereby said projectile flys embossed-end forward, and the projectile is of the hollow-nosed type.
A sizing apparatus for projectiles, comprising in combination a tubular sleeve having a lower diameter corresponding to the caliber of the projectile to be sized, said sleeve having an upper diameter corresponding to the diameter of an unsized projectile and forming an annular seat with said lower diameter for supporting thereon an unsized projectile, punch means removably received in said tubular sleeve and having a diameter corresponding to that of the upper diameter of the sleeve and reciprocal therein down to the annular seat, said punch means having an internally-threaded, axial bore terminating in an annular seat, and configuring die means including a threaded stud removably received in said internally threaded bore of said punch means, said threaded stud of the die means being integral with a medial, annular collar, removably received in the annular seat of the punch means for orienting the die means axially, said die means terminating in a terminal embossing portion whereby a projectile seated on the annular seat of said tubular sleeve can be forced beyond said sleeve seat and be sized while the projectile is simultaneously configured by said terminal embossing portion so that the projectile is sized and configured into an expandable mushroom projectile when axially sizing force is provided on the upper end of said punch means.
The method of muzzle-loading weapons for producing hollow pointed projectiles and compacting the weapon charge comprising:
- depositing, in sequence, a powder charge means, patch means, and projectile means in the barrel of a weapon;
- providing ram means for compacting the weapon charge, providing said ram means with centering jag means including a terminal configuring die including one of a selected group of configuring terminal ends for effecting a hollow recess in the projectile of the weapon charge;
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- simultaneously tamping the weapon charge and forming a hollow-nose projectile through the application of tamping pressure.
A muzzle-loading kit for providing optional caliber tamping and simultaneous production of a hollow-point projectile, comprising in combination case means and hinged lid means having a hinge assembly at one side and latch means opposite said hinge means;
- and a resilient block in said case means, said block having recess portion corresponding to and supporting one of a plurality of optionally selectable components of a muzzle-loading assembly including at least one centering jag means, one coupling means for connection to a ram rod, and one configuring die means whereby the centering jag means, coupling means and configuring die means can be assembled in the field and a muzzle-loaded weapon can be loaded, tamped and reconfigured into a hollow-point, charged weapon while the charge is tamped.
In a muzzle-loading system for weapons comprising barrel means for receiving serially, a powder charge, patch means, and projectile means, and ram-rod means for tamping the charge, the improvement wherein said ram-rod means includes attaching means at one end of the ram-rod means, and configuring die means removably secured to said attaching means for forming a desired configuration in the projectile means simultaneously as the charge is tamped whereby a newly configured projectile is provided.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.