HAROLD FRANCIS BEAL, III
Pilots at Sierra Cir, Rockford, TN

6457417, Oct 1, 2002

Nov 24, 1998

09/198823

Harold F. Beal - Rockford TN

Doris Nebel Beal Inter Vivos Patent Trust - Pawleys Island SC

F42B 814

102517

A method for the manufacture of heavy metal powder-based frangible projectiles which are relatively easy and inexpensive to manufacture and which exhibit a selectable variety of desirable physical and/or performance properties. The projectiles of the present invention are powder-based, preferably including predominately tungsten powder as a heavy metal, particularly a tungsten powder which includes a predominate portion of finely sized particles. Lighter metal powders, also preferably having a predominate portion of finely sized particles, may be employed in combination with the tungsten to achieve certain desired results. Importantly, the present inventor has found that inclusion of a non-metal matrix powder, also of finely sized particles, in a mixture of a heavy metal powder, such as tungsten powder, and a light metal powder, may be employed in a variety of combinations to produce a projectile which is fully frangible upon striking a target (no ricochet), or which is frangible after either partial or full penetration of a selected target, either a semi-solid (e. g. , a gel block) or a solid (e. g. , a ¼ inch thick cold rolled steel plate at an angle of about 90 degrees).

6371029, Apr 16, 2002

Jan 26, 2000

09/491257

Harold F. Beal - Rockford TN 37853

Harold F. Beal - Rockford TN

F42B 1202

102516, 102506, 102507, 102517, 86 55

A disc for use in the manufacture of gun ammunition and a round of gun ammunition which includes the disc. A preferred disc comprises a mixture of metal powders compressed into self-supporting deformable disc that is incorporated along with a core into a jacket to define the projectile of a round of gun ammunition. The disc is frangible upon the projectile striking a solid or semi-solid target. Preferably the core is likewise frangible. In one embodiment the disc is incorporated into the ogive of a projectile. In another embodiment, a disc may be incorporated into a projectile comprising multiple cores, the disc being disposed between adjacent surfaces of the cores. This latter disc commonly is in addition to the disc which is incorporated into the ogive of the projectile. A round of gun ammunition incorporating a powder-based disc in the projectile thereof is disclosed.

2002007, Jun 27, 2002

Oct 23, 2001

10/001390

Harold Beal - Rockford TN, US

F42B010/00, F42B012/00, F42B030/00

102/516000

A method for the manufacture of a projectile for small-bore weapons ammunition comprising the steps of producing a plurality of compacts from a mixture of a heavy metal powder and a light metal powder at room temperature, and without further treatment of the compacts, introducing the compacts into a metal jacket one at a time, including pressing each compact into the jacket with a pressure sufficient to ensure substantially complete filling of a respective portion of the jacket by each compact before introducing a further compact into the jacket. The compacts fill less that the entire volume of the jacket, leaving a portion of the jacket void of compacts. Prior to the pressing of the last of the compacts introduced into the jacket, a disc having an outer diameter substantially equal to the internal diameter of said jacket adjacent the open end thereof is introduced into the jacket. Following pressing the last introduced compact and the separator dics, that portion of the jacket adjacent its open end is infolded toward the longitudinal centerline of the jacket to at least substantially close the open end of the jacket. A unique projectile and a round of ammunition formed with the projectile are disclosed.

2002017, Dec 5, 2002

Apr 19, 2002

10/126425

Harold Beal - Rockford TN, US

F42B012/00, F42B010/00, F42B030/00

102/516000

A method for the manufacture of a projectile for small-bore weapons ammunition comprising the steps of producing a plurality of compacts from a mixture of a heavy metal powder and a light metal powder at room temperature, and without further treatment of the compacts, introducing the compacts into a metal jacket one at a time, including pressing each compact into the jacket with a pressure sufficient to ensure substantially complete filling of a respective portion of the jacket by each compact before introducing a further compact into the jacket. The compacts fill less that the entire volume of the jacket, leaving a portion of the jacket void of compacts. Prior to the pressing of the last of the compacts introduced into the jacket, a disc having an outer diameter substantially equal to the internal diameter of said jacket adjacent the open end thereof is introduced into the jacket. Following pressing the last introduced compact and the separator dics, that portion of the jacket adjacent its open end is infolded toward the longitudinal centerline of the jacket to at least substantially close the open end of the jacket. A unique projectile and a round of ammunition formed with the projectile are disclosed.

6935217, Aug 30, 2005

May 7, 2004

10/841653

Harold F. Beal - Rockford TN, US

Doris Nebel Beal Inter Vivos Patent Trust - Pawleys Island SC

F42B030/00

86 55

A frangible projectile for gun ammunition wherein the projectile includes a core formed from one or more metal powders which are pressed into a self-supporting compact and incorporated into a metal jacket. The metal jacket is initially cup-shaped (generally cylindrical in overall geometry) with an open end and a closed end. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention the closed end of the jacket becomes the trailing end of the projectile. In another embodiment, the closed end of the jacket becomes the leading end of the projectile. In either embodiment, that surface of the closed end of the jacket which faces inwardly of the volume of the jacket is indented and stressed over substantially its entire area in accordance with a pattern of indentions which enhances the frangibility of this closed end of the projectile when the projectile strikes a target. In either embodiment, upon the projectile of the present invention striking a relatively hard target, the initially closed end of the jacket, which now has been indented and stressed, disintegrates into minute particulates, each of which loses its momentum rapidly such that these particulates fall harmless away from the target.

2006008, Apr 20, 2006

Jan 5, 2001

09/755703

Harold Beal - Rockford TN, US

F42B 5/02

102441000

A round of gun ammunition including a projectile adapted to be propelled from the gun at a subsonic velocity. The round includes a case containing a quantity of gun powder therein, but not filling the case. A projectile projects into the body portion of a case to a location proximate the gun powder. A disc having a circumference substantially matching the inner circumference of the body portion of the case at the level of the gun powder within the case is interposed between the gun powder and the proximal end of the projectile within the case to provide a barrier against movement of gun powder toward the open end of the case. In one embodiment, a further disc is interposed between the disc and the proximal end of the projectile to filter out gun powder particles which may escape past the barrier disc. A method for the manufacture of the round of gun ammunition is disclosed.

6279447, Aug 28, 2001

Oct 5, 1998

9/166345

Harold F. Beal - Rockford TN

Cove Corporation - Rockford TN

F42B 3302, F42B 502

86 29

A method for the manufacture of a gun ammunition cartridge including multi-stage insertion of a projectile into a case a distance beyond the inboard terminal end of the neck of the case without deleterious effect upon the gun powder disposed within the case. Substantially full utilization is achieved of the interior volume of the case that is available for the receipt of gun powder.

6840149, Jan 11, 2005

May 15, 2002

10/145927

Harold F. Beal - Rockford TN, US

Doris Nebel Beal inter vivos Patent Trust - Pawley's Island SC

F42B 3300

86 55, 102516, 102517

A method of forming a gun ammunition projectile including a leading end defined by an ogive including the steps of admixing a quantity of a first powdered metal having a first melting point and a first density, with a quantity of a second powdered metal having a second, and lower, melting point and a second, and lesser, density, pressing a quantity of the admixed metal powders into a self-supporting compact having at least an outboard end disposing the compact in a cup-shaped jacket, heating the compact in the jacket, in a vertical attitude, to a temperature of at least the melting point of the second metal but less than the melting point of the first metal, for a time sufficient to result in a liquefied portion of the second metal migrating to and accumulating at the one outboard end of the compact.

5847313, Dec 8, 1998

Aug 28, 1997

8/922129

Harold F. Beal - Rockford TN

Cove Corporation - Knoxville TN

F42B 1206

102516

A composite projectile for an ammunition cartridge comprising a core formed for compacted power particulates and having opposite ends. The core is encapsulated within a jacket having an open end. A cap is contained with the jacket adjacent the open end thereof and is physically captured within the jacket in contiguous relationship to that end of the core nearest the open end of the jacket. The cap defines a fixed partition extending across the transverse cross section of the jacket that enhances the concentric positioning about the longitudinal centerline of the jacket of any powder particulates dislodged from that end of the core contiguous to the cap and functions as a penetrator when the projectile strikes a target. The core preferably is formed from a cold-compacted mixture of tungsten and lead powders.

5822904, Oct 20, 1998

Mar 14, 1997

8/815003

Harold F. Beal - Rockford TN

Cove Corporation - Knoxville TN

F41A 2112

42 7601

An ammunition cartridge for producing subsonic flight of a projectile therefrom at substantially all angles of fire relative to the horizontal, including an elongated, generally cylindrical case including a closed end containing a primer therein, a body portion suitable for the receipt of a quantity of gunpowder therein, and an open end suitable for receiving an elongated projectile therein. The case further includes a first stepped down stage at the open end thereof wherein the outer diameter of thereof is reduced by an amount sufficient to encircle at least a portion of the length dimension of the elongated projectile to thereby temporarily retain the projectile disposed in the open end of said case means prior to the firing of said cartridge, and at least one further stepped down stage disposed contiguous to said first stepped down stage and extending from said first stepped down stage in the direction of the closed end of said case means, the reduced diameter of said second stepped down stage being greater than the diameter of said first stepped down stage.