Patent ID: 6862995
Filing Date: 2005-03-08
Classification: F42B

Abstract:
1. A process of making a bean bag product for installation within a cartridge for a gun for a less-lethal purpose upon propelling the bean bag from such cartridge upon the latter's detonation comprising applying one end of an open-ended sleeve of a length consonant with a predetermined weight of a fabric-constructed material to a hollow mandrel to the extent of an indicium for indicating the length of a shorter portion for the sleeve over a longer portion for the sleeve not applied to the mandrel, closing off the sleeve at the end of the mandrel to which the sleeve was applied thereby delineating a shorter portion on the sleeve on the mandrel from a longer portion on the sleeve not applied to the mandrel, doubling back the longer portion of the sleeve over the shorter portion of the sleeve while the shorter sleeve is on its mandrel, a flowing structure thereby being formed on the longer portion of the sleeve while the shorter portion is on the mandrel, removing the doubled-back sleeve of the shorter portion and the longer portion from the mandrel, filling the shorter portion of the sleeve with a plurality of pre-measured-by-weight pellets, fastening together the shorter portion and the longer portion forming the doubled-back sleeve at the level at which the pellets have filled the shorter portion thereby forming a substantially filled compartment for the bean bag, and forming a peripheral curl on the flowing structure of the longer portion of the doubled-back sleeve.