Device and method for pulling bullets from cartridges
OwnerRichard J. Leeinventor
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Abstract
A device for use with an ammunition reloading press, the device uses a “C” shaped split ring that is captured within a chamber with a slightly tapered frustaconical wall into the smaller end of which the bullet portion of an ammunition round can be inserted to a point where the bullet enters the C ring with a friction fit and subsequent withdrawal of the ammunition cartridge by operation of the press draws the ring into the increasingly narrow wall, decreasing the diameter of the ring and forcing a tighter grip on the bullet, which is then separated from the cartridge by further withdrawal and is removable from the device through an opening at the larger end of the chamber.
Claims14
A device for separation of the bullet from an ammunition cartridge and for use with a reloading press having means for mounting the device and press ram means for forcibly advancing an ammunition cartridge toward and withdrawing away from the device, the device comprising a chamber having a ring within the chamber, the chamber having an internal frustaconical wall having a larger diameter end and a smaller diameter end, and openings at each end wherein the chamber openings are slightly larger than the bullet and smaller than the ring, allowing passage of the bullet into and through the chamber and retaining the ring within the chamber, the ring having an inside diameter slightly smaller than the bullet and being of sufficient flexibility to receive the bullet within the center of the ring, with an outside diameter that is, when the ring is expanded by insertion of a bullet within the center of the ring, larger than the smaller diameter end of the frustaconical wall and smaller than the larger diameter end of the frustaconical wall.
A method of removing a bullet from an ammunition cartridge using a device mounted on an ammunition reloading press having means for mounting the device and press ram means for forcibly advancing an ammunition cartridge toward and withdrawing away from the device, the method comprising forming a device body comprising a chamber having a frustaconical wall having a larger diameter end and a smaller diameter end and openings at each end, forming a ring with sufficient flexibility to receive the bullet within the center of the ring and having an inside diameter, when relaxed, slightly smaller than the bullet and an outside diameter, when a bullet is inserted into the ring, smaller than the larger diameter end of the frustaconical wall and larger than the smaller end of the frustaconical wall and larger than the chamber opening at the larger diameter end, assembling the device with the ring within the device body chamber, mounting the device on the press, securing a cartridge to the press ram, operating the press to advance the bullet into the device and into the ring, and operating the press to withdraw the cartridge from the device.
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