US450623A

US450623A - Steel-capped bullet

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Publication number: US450623A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1891-04-21
Anticipated expiration: 1908-04-21

Description

(No Model.)

A. KAUDERER. STEEL GAPPED BULLET.

No. 450,623. Patented Apr. 21. 1891.

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ANDREXV KAUDERER, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

STEEL-CAPPED BU LLET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 450,623, dated April 21, 1891.

Application filed December 5, 1890- Serial No. 373,674. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANDREW KAUDERER, a citizen of the United States, residing in Butfalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bullets, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention consists in certain improve ments in bullets for rifles or other small arms, and will be fully and clearly hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal central section through the bullet and steel head -case. Fig. 3 is a detached vertical longitudinal central section through the steel head-case of the bullet.

In said drawings, 1 represents the usual leaden body of a bullet. The steel head-case 2 is provided with a semicircular hollow chamber 3 near the rear, and at the rear with the straight or parallel sides 4, and is made of smaller diameter than the leaden body of the bullet, so as to prevent injury to the rifle or other arm in which it may be used. The object of the parallel sides 4 is to permit of a stronger hold on the leaden body at that point. At the front of thechamber 3 is an opening 5, which extends through the end of the case, and at the front of the opening 5 is a countersunk portion 6. The object of this opening 5 through the end of the steel case and the countersunk portion 6 is to provide not only a strong hold upon the leaden point of the bullet, but to leave room for more lead 7 in the general make of the same, so as to give it more weight in proportion to its size than it would haveit'the end otthe steel shell were solid. The lead, which reaches through the

opening

5 and 6, does not in any way interfere with the penetrating quality of the bullet. The steel shell prevents the lead from spreading, and thereby insures every quality possessed by a solid-steel point with the additional weight of-the lead, so that a very slight increase in the length is required to give the same weight as a bullet of the same diameter composed entirely of lead.

Experience has shown that this bullet has at least one-third more penetrating power than an ordinary one composed entirely of lead.

I am aware that bullets have heretofore been made composed of lead having a solidsteel point. I therefore do not claim such, broadly; but

lVhat I do claim, is

1. A bullet composed of a hollow steel shell having an enlarged chamber at the rear, a smaller opening extending through the front end, and a body portion of lead filling said openings in the shell and projecting through to the end of the small opening, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. A leaden bullet incased in a steel end provided with a hollow back, an opening through the front end, and a countersunk portion into which the lead projects and is fastened, substantially as described.

ANDREWV KAUDERER.

Witnesses:

J AMES SANGSTER, J ENNIE M. CALDWELL.