WAD-CONTAINER FOR SMALL-SHOT SHELLS Russian patent published in 2004 - IPC

FIELD: ammunition for smoothbore sporting guns. SUBSTANCE: the wad-container for small-shot shells has a small beaker for small shots whose side wall consists of four tabs divided by slots and interconnected by crosspieces, shock absorber and an obturator. The width of the slots makes up 1.0+-0.2mm, and the length -0.75 to 1.0 of the beaker height, the crosspieces, whose number makes up 2 to 4 per slot, are uniformly are uniformly located at a distance of not more than 7 mm from the open end face of the beaker and have a thickness not exceeding 0.3 mm and a width of 1+- 0.15 mm, a lug in the form of a thin-walled ring with an outside diameter of not less than 0.7 of the outside diameter of the wad-contained and a height of not less than 3.0 mm is made on the inner surface of the obturator. EFFECT: enhanced close grouping of shots and simplified adaptability to manufacture of the wad-container. 1 dwg, 1 tbl, 1 ex