Method of manufacturing a soft point bullet
AssigneeAlliant Techsystems Inc.
InventorBrett Mathew Olin
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing a soft point bullet and the bullet resulting there from. The method comprises forming a bullet core of a first material plated with a second material; providing a cavity in one end of the plated core of preferably polygonal shape and positioning a shaped blank of plating material into the cavity; and forming the core into the final bullet size and shape by extruding the core into the cavity to form the bullet nose and encapsulate the shaped blank within the bullet.
Claims17
The method of manufacturing a soft point bullet comprising the steps of:
- forming a bullet core of a selected geometric shape from a deformable first material;
- plating the deformable core with a second material to form a plated core;
- forming a cavity in one end of the plated core having a selected shape and having a blank of plating metal positioned within the cavity to create a blanked core;
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- forming the blanked core in a selected bullet size and shape having a soft point nose formed by extruding the deformable first material into the cavity and encapsulating the blank of plating material within the deformable core.
The method of manufacturing a soft point bullet comprising the steps of:
- forming a deformable first metal into a bullet core having a generally right cylindrical shape;
- plating the deformable core with a second metal to form a plated core;
- inserting a tool into one end of the plated core to a selected penetration to form a polygonal shaped cavity in said one end and form a blanked core having a polygonal shaped blank of plating metal at a selected location within the cavity and further defining multiple fracture points in the adjacent second metal;
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- forming the blanked core into a bullet shape by extruding the deformable first metal into the cavity to encapsulate the plating metal blank and form the first and second metal into a generally conical shaped nose including said encapsulated blank and having said multiple fracture points spaced generally uniformly around said nose.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.