COMPOSITE PROJECTILE FOR SMALL ARMS AND MACHINE GUNS to be as follows:-
Year: 1885

page_text: I, RICHARD MORRIS of Bennett Park, Blackheath in the County of Kent,
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "COMPOSITE PROJECTILE
FOR SMALL ARMS AND MACHINE GUNS to be as follows:-
"
My invention relates to a composite projectile applicable to ordinary rifles or
other small arms and to machine guns having barrels of moderate calibre, the
object which have in view being to produce at moderate expense a projectile
having great penetrating power, and so constructed as to take rifling with facility
without injuring the bore of the arm.
For this purpose I make, preferably of steel, the body of the projectile consisting
of a conoidal head, somewhat less in diameter than the bore of the gun, with a
long shank which may be of considerably smaller diameter extending back from it.
On this shank, I fit a sleeve which is a piece of tube of lead or other soft metal or
alloy, having an external diameter a little larger than the bore of the gun. In
order to fix this sleeve, I either burr or rivet the end of the shank over the end of
the tube, preferably interposing an iron or steel washer, or I screw a nut on the
end of the shank. In order to prevent the sleeve from turning round, the shank
may be grooved longitudinally or may be of polygonal section, the sleeve having
a bore to fit it.
Instead of making the hard metal conoidal head of larger diameter than the
shank, it may be simply formed as a centre punch with a coned end and the shank
may have grooves or ridges formed around it or a screw thread cut on it. The soft
metal sleeve, having a hole large enough to pass over the ridges or threads of the
shank, and being made a little longer can then be put on the shank and pressed by
a punch into the mould, whereby it becomes firmly fixed on the shank. Instead
of making the sleeve somewhat larger than the bore of the weapon, it may be made
to fit it and have its end conically hollowed so as to be expanded by the discharge
to take the rifling.
When a projectile thus constructed is fired, the soft metal sleeve readily takes
the rifling without injuring the bore of the gun, and the hard conoidal head, urged
by the momentum of the mass behind it, has great penetrating power.
.
.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Composite Projectile for Small Arms and Machine Guns.
I, RICHARD MORRIS, of Bennett Park, Blackheath, in the County of Kent,
Engineer, 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:-
My invention relates to a composite projectile applicable to ordinary rifles or
other small arms and to machine guns having barrels of moderate calibre, the object
which I have in view being to produce, at moderate expense, a projectile having
great penetrating power, and so constructed as to take rifling with facility without
injuring the bore of the arm.
For this purpose I make, preferably of steel, the body of the projectile consisting
of a conoidal head, somewhat less in diameter than the bore of the gun, with a long
shank which may be of considerably smaller diameter extending back from it. On
this shank I fit a sleeve which is a piece of tube of lead or other soft metal or alloy
having an external diameter a little larger than the bore of the gun. In order to
fix this sleeve, I either burr or rivet the end of the shank over the end of the tube
preferably interposing an iron or steel washer or I screw a nut on the end of the
shank. In order to prevent the sleeve from turning round, the shank may be
grooved longitudinally or may be of polygonal section, the sleeve having a bore
to fit it.
Instead of making the hard metal conoidal head of larger diameter than the
shank, it may be simply formed as a centre punch with a coned end and the shank
may have grooves or ridges formed around it or a screw thread cut on it. The soft
metal sleeve having a hole large enough to pass over the ridges or threads of the
shank and being made a little longer can then be put on the shank and pressed by
a punch into the mould, whereby it becomes firmly fixed on the shank. Instead of
making the sleeve somewhat larger than the bore of the weapon, it may be made
to fit it and have its end conically hollowed so as to be expanded by the discharge
to take the rifling.
When a projectile thus constructed is fired, the soft metal sleeve readily takes
the rifling without injuring the bore of the gun and the hard conoidal head, urged
by the momentum of the mass behind it, has great penetrating power.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a longitudinal section of a projectile
according to my invention constructed as first hereinbefore described, that is to say,
a piece of steel having a conoidal head a and a shank b preferably polygonal or
longitudinally grooved has put on it a sleeve tube c of lead or other soft metal or
alloy. This sleeve is held on by a washer d over which the countersunk end of
the shank b is burred or rivetted. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section shewing the
modified construction secondly described above, that is to say the steel shank b is
coned at the end a like a centre punch and has cut on it a screw thread or a
number of circular grooves. The soft metal sleeve c is passed on to the shank and
being made longer than it, is then squeezed by a punch into a mould so that the
metal takes the shape of the mould and is made to engage in the screw threads or
grooves of the shank, taking firm hold thereof.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. The construction and use of a composite projectile consisting of a steel head
and shank and a soft metal sleeve held on the shank by a washer over which the
end of the shank is rivetted, as herein described with reference to Fig. 1.
2. The construction and use of a composite projectile consisting of a pointed steel
shank grooved or threaded and a soft metal sleeve compressed thereon, as herein
described with reference to Fig. 2.