An ammunition cartridge for use with a gun which cartridge has a shotshell wad defining a rear charge receiving chamber and at least two forward shot or other projectile receiving chambers wherein a forward shot receiving chamber is formed of a solid disk including a plurality of shot pellets or similar projectiles embedded in a hardened binder material and wherein a rear shot or similar projectile receiving chamber houses unbound shot pellets or projectiles.
A shotgun cartridge having a weighted wad for controlling the separation point between the wad and the shot load. The wad having a tail portion and a nose portion with the nose portion shifting the center of gravity of the wad axially forward away from the center of pressure compared to where the center of gravity would be if the nose portion was not weighted thereby controlling the shot load separation and enhancing the shot pattern.
A beverage bar structure and system compromising essentially a self-contained unit which is releasably and selectively attachable to the ice chest of customary bar structure. The self contained unit includes a pumping unit provided a housing and, additionally, a beverage-container-receiving well upstanding from said pumping housing. Structure is provided for attaching the unit proximate the lip of the ice chest of the bar. The latter structure is designed to accommodate a variety of unit sizes relative to the dimensions of the ice chest. Juice and concentrate containers are coupled by suitable conduit to the unit for pumping thereby to a suitable beverage dispenser.
A sporting gun cartridge and wad therefor wherein such wad, generally taking the form of a shotshell wad for shotguns, for example, includes a first, forwardly oriented cylindrical portion and also a second, rearwardly oriented cylindrical portion, joining the first portion at a common partition juncture, wherein the side wall of the first portion is scored to provided a series of expandable and separable wall segments, spaced from the forward end of such first portion, whereby to afford relief from impaction of shot disposed within said first portion under firing conditions.
A high volume beverage delivery structure or apparatus, preferably encased in a single self-contained unit, wherein the same includes a high-volume water line provided with a multiple-inlet junction or junction unit. Feeding such junction or junction unit are a series of suitably driven liquid supply pumps, connected together either unitarily or in tandem, for providing respective juices, syrups, concentrates, and/or other liquids or fluids to the pumps for supply thereof to the multiple-inlet junction unit interposed in the high volume water line. Suitable valving is provided for control of the respective pumping branches, and the system is designed in an over-all manner such as to accommodate any one of several concentrates, etc. , which are to be additives to the water supply system.
Rifled Barrel Having A Rifled And Non-Rifled Portion
A rifled barrel has a cylindrical channel longitudinally extending within the rifled barrel between an oppositely oriented muzzle opening and a breach opening, the cylindrical channel having a rifled portion and a non-rifled portion, the rifled portion having a land and a groove helically extending along a surface of the cylindrical channel from the muzzle opening toward the breach opening, the non-rifled portion being smooth and having a consistent diameter along a length. The diameter of the non-rifled portion of the cylindrical channel is equal to a diameter of the rifled portion measured between oppositely oriented sections of the groove. A transitional section of the rifled portion has a diameter measured between oppositely oriented land sections that gradually decreases along a section of the rifled portion adjacent to the non-rifled portion until equaling the diameter of the non-rifled portion.
A projectile for loading into a rifled barrel includes a casing having a cylindrical body, a forward aerodynamic end, and a free end opposite the aerodynamic end, the cylindrical body of the casing defining an interior cavity extending to and in open communication with the free end. The projectile also has a bullet sized to initially slidably engage the casing along a partial length of the interior cavity through the free end. Upon discharge of propellant, the bullet is forced to slidably engage the casing farther within the cavity, preferably such that an entire length of the bullet is housed within the casing cavity, whereby a circumference of the casing is increased such that the increased circumference of the casing catches barrel rifling of the muzzleloader rifle. This allows a smaller caliber bullet to be used in a fouled barrel, while increasing accuracy of the muzzleloader rifle.
An ammunition cartridge for use with a firearm, such as a shotgun or rifle, and which includes a shot shell wad having a cylindrical housing which has a forward or outer shot receiving chamber separated from the at least one innermost shot receiving chamber by a partition which is preferably integrally formed with the housing and wherein the projectiles or shot receiving chambers include a plurality of open conically shaped chamber portions that are in open communication with one another at an apex and base of each adjoining projectile or shot receiving chamber so that, upon firing of the cartridge, the projectiles or shot are directed centrally and forwardly relative to a centerline of the housing as the projectiles or shot separate from the innermost camber and exit an open end of the outer chamber.