Improvements in Bullets or Projectiles for Fire Arms.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in Bullets or Projectiles for Fire Arms.
I, JULIUS COSTER, Works Manager to Alexander Henry Ltd., of No. 18, Frederick
Street, Edinburgh, in the County of the City of Edinburgh, North Britain, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The forming of the bullet or projectile in two, three, or more sections, or partial
sections, which may be swedged into a coat or cover of nickel, copper, tin or other
suitable substance; or the bullet may be without such coat or cover. A thin strip of
metal or other suitable substance may be inserted between the sections of the bullet.
The sections may be joined at the point or at the point and base so as to make the
bullet solid at these extremes. The result of forming the bullet or projectile in the
herein-before described manner is to ensure its expanding on striking or penetrating
the object fired at.
Dated this meth
SM1 1007
Improvements in Bullets or Projectiles for Fire Arms.
I, JULIUS COSTER, late of c/o Alexander Henry Ltd., 18, Frederick Street,
Edinburgh, now Works Manager to Charles Ingram, 18B, Renfield Street, Glasgow, in
the County of the City of Glasgow, North Britain, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The subject of the hereinafter described invention is a bullet or projectile of
improved construction for use in fire arms, the object of so constructing the bullet
or projectile being to cause it to do greater damage to the object fired at than is
possible with the bullets or projectiles at present in use.
In order that my invention may be readily understood I have annexed a sheet of
explanatory drawings lettered to correspond with the following Specification.
Figure 1 of these drawings represents, in longitudinal section, that portion of the
improved bullet or projectile to which my invention relates, and Figure 2 is a similar
view but with the retaining case removed from the end of the bullet or projectile.
The invention consists in making the bullet or projectile of lead or other soft
material with a solid head or point of conical or other shape and with one or more
slits at its rear end or base so as to split it into two or more sections as shown at 2,
Figures 1 and 2. This end of the bullet or projectile is provided with a nickel or
other cover 3, adapted to enclose the several sections while the bullet or projectile is
passing through the rifle or gun, or through the air when fired, but which will burst
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page_text: on the bullet or projectile striking home, in order to cause greater damage to the
object fired at.
The nickel or other cover 3, may extend wholly or partially over the slits in the
bullet or projectile or beyond these slits so as to entirely cover them, and the slits
may or may not extend to the extreme base of the bullet or projectile.
my said
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
A bullet or projectile of lead or other soft material formed with a solid head or
point and with its rear end split into two or more sections and covered by a nickel or
other cover, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.