Patent ID: 7610857
Filing Date: 2009-11-03
Classification: F42B

Abstract:
1. A cylindrical ballistic tracer platform for use with a shotgun shell having a lower end and an upper end, and further having propellant and a shot cup having a first end and an opposing end and holding shot, the propellant being contained inside the lower end of the shotgun shell below the second end of the shot cup, the tracer platform comprising a resilient, elastic, translucent container holding a first reactant, a second reactant, a fluorescent dye, and means for physically separating the first reactant from the second reactant and the fluorescent dye prior to their combination resulting in a chemiluminescent reaction, the tracer platform located inside the upper end directly under the crimped top of the shotgun shell, inside the first end of the shot cup and above the shot held in the shot cup, the tracer platform further comprising a disk-shaped spacer arranged under and adjacent to the tracer platform in order to separate the tracer platform from shot held in the shot cup, the tracer platform moving separately from the shot holder after leaving a shotgun barrel.