Title:
IN-SITU FORMATION OF CAP FOR AMMUNITION PROJECTILE
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2003104742
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A method of forming a gun ammunition projectile (52) including a leading end defined by an ogive (53) including the steps of admixing a quantity of a first powdered metal having a first melting point and a first density, with a quantity of a second powdered metal having a second, and lower, melting point and a second, and lesser, density, pressing a quantity of the admixed metal powders into a self-supporting compact having at least an outboard end, heating the compact, in a vertical attitude, to a temperature of at least the melting point of the second metal but less than the melting point of the first metal, for a time sufficient to result in a liquefied portion of the second metal migrating to and accumulating at the one outboard end of the compact.
Inventors:
BEAL HAROLD F (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US2002/015313
Publication Date:
June 10, 2004
Filing Date:
May 15, 2002
Export Citation:
Assignee:
BEAL HAROLD F (US)
International Classes:
B22F1/00; F42B12/74; (IPC1-7): F42B/
Foreign References:
| US6074454A | 2000-06-13 | |||
| US5894644A | 1999-04-20 | |||
| US6536352B1 | 2003-03-25 | |||
| US6447715B1 | 2002-09-10 | |||
| US5963776A | 1999-10-05 |
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