US 9,297,619 B1Granted

Bullet for striking obstructed targets

OwnerAhmad Abdullah M. J. Al-Qanaeiinventor

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Abstract

The bullet for striking obstructed targets includes a main bullet casing having a primary front portion and a primary rear portion, the main bullet casing including a primary propellant and a primary firing means configured to ignite the primary propellant, the primary firing means positioned in the primary rear portion of the main bullet casing, a detachable bullet casing having a secondary front portion and a secondary rear portion, the detachable bullet casing positioned in communicating relation to the main bullet casing, the detachable bullet casing including a secondary propellant and a secondary firing means configured to ignite the secondary propellant, the secondary firing means positioned in the secondary front portion of the detachable bullet casing, and a bullet head positioned on the secondary front portion of the detachable bullet casing, the bullet head having a triggering means positioned in communicating relation to the secondary firing means configured to ignite the secondary firing means.

Claims7

Dependent claims

An ammunition cartridge for secondary firings at obstructed targets, the ammunition cartridge comprising:

a first casing including a primary front portion and an opposing primary rear portion;
a primary propellant disposed in the first casing;
a primary firing means positioned in the primary rear portion of the first casing, the primary firing means designed and configured to ignite the primary propellant;
a second casing having a secondary front portion and an opposing secondary rear portion;
wherein the secondary rear portion of the second casing positioned in communicating relation to the primary front portion of the first casing;
a secondary propellant disposed within the second casing;
a secondary firing means positioned in the secondary front portion of the second casing, the secondary firing means designed and configured to ignite the secondary propellant;
and
a bullet head positioned in the secondary front portion of the second casing;
and
a triggering means disposed in the bullet head and positioned in communicating relation to the secondary firing means;
wherein the triggering means being designed and configured to ignite the secondary firing means;
whereby, upon impact of the bullet head with a substantially hard surface, the triggering means ignites the secondary firing means, causing the secondary rear portion of the second casing to be launched in an opposite direction of the bullet head, and capable of impacting the obstructed target.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/789,974Filed 1 Jul 2015
Granted: 29 Mar 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

F42B 5/105
With self-propelled bullet: propelled by two propulsive charges, the rearwardly situated one being separated from the rest of the projectile…
F42B 5/10
Cartridges, i.e. cases with charge and missile: with self-propelled bullet
F42B 12/62
Cluster or cargo ammunition, i.e. projectiles containing one or more submissiles: the submissiles being ejected parallel to the longitudinal axis…
F42C 1/09
With firing-pin structurally combined with fuze: the fuze activating a propulsive charge for propelling the ammunition or the warhead into the…