Patent ID: 7950329
Filing Date: 2011-05-31
Classification: F41H,F42B

Abstract:
1. A cartridge for delivering a projectile unit in an electroshock weapon wherein a pair of independent projectile units contact and establish an electrical connection of differing polarity with a target, comprising: a housing adapted for operative connection with one polarity of the electroshock weapon, said housing having no more than a single chamber forming an opening therethrough wherein said chamber has a cylindrical front section and a coaxial cylindrical rear section; one of said projectile units located in said chamber, said projectile unit having a head member slidably supported in said front section and a rearwardly extending cylindrical sleeve in said rear section; and an orderly packed wire assembly of electric wire in said rear section and having one end connected with said head member and another end electrically connected to said housing wherein said wire is arranged in the form of a compact self-supported coil, said head member having contact means for establishing an electrical connection with a target; and a pyrotechnical energy source carried on said housing at a rear end of said chamber adapted to be ignited by the electroshock weapon for forwardly propelling said projectile unit whereby at said target electrical current of said one polarity is conducted through said wire from the weapon to said contact means for establishing an electrical connection with said target.