IP Library Granted Patent US 7,143,699
Granted Patent B2
US 7,143,699 · App. 10/827,000 · Granted Dec 5, 2006

Liquid filled less lethal projectile

Assignee: BNB Ballistics, Inc.
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Patent No.
US 7,143,699
App. No.
10/827,000
Granted
Dec 5, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

A less lethal projectile to be fired from a launcher comprising a body having a concentric cavity to hold a fluid payload, a nose cap attached to the body, said nose cap having a plurality of slits therein, which will spread open upon impact, allowing the fluid to escape.

Claims (4)

1. A less lethal projectile to be fired from a launcher comprising, a body having a concentric cavity to hold a fluid payload, a nose cap attached to the body, said nose cap comprising an inner hard nose cap covered by an outer soft nose cap and having a plurality of slits therein, which will open upon impact, allowing the fluid to escape.

2. The projectile of claim 1 in which the inner cap and the outer cap have matching collinear slits.

3. A less lethal projectile comprising a body having a concentric cavity to hold a fluid payload, a nose cap attached to the body said nose cap having a plurality of slits therein which will spread open upon impact, a frangible disk to seal the fluid in the cavity in the body, said frangible disk rupturing at impact allowing the fluid to pass into the nose cap and escape through the slits in the nose cap in which the nose cap comprises an inner hard nose cap covered by an outer soft nose cap.

4. A less lethal projectile comprising a body having a concentric cavity to hold a fluid payload, a nose cap attached to the body said nose cap having a plurality of slits therein which will spread open upon impact, a frangible disk to seal the fluid in the cavity in the body, said frangible disk rupturing at impact allowing the fluid to pass into the nose cap and escape through the slits in the nose cap in which the frangible disk has a circular groove cut therein to provide a weakened point of rupture.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 19, 2004
From: BROCK, CHRISTOPER V.; CUADROS, JAIME H.
To: BND BALLISTICS, INC.
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Continuity (1)
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