Patent ID: 7568417

Claim:
A device for separation of the bullet from an ammunition cartridge and for use with a reloading press having means for mounting the device and press ram means for forcibly advancing an ammunition cartridge toward and withdrawing away from the device, the device comprising a chamber having a ring within the chamber, the chamber having an internal frustaconical wall having a larger diameter end and a smaller diameter end, and openings at each end wherein the chamber openings are slightly larger than the bullet and smaller than the ring, allowing passage of the bullet into and through the chamber and retaining the ring within the chamber, the ring having an inside diameter slightly smaller than the bullet and being of sufficient flexibility to receive the bullet within the center of the ring, with an outside diameter that is, when the ring is expanded by insertion of a bullet within the center of the ring, larger than the smaller diameter end of the frustaconical wall and smaller than the larger diameter end of the frustaconical wall.