Patents by Inventor Charles K. Bane

Charles K. Bane has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method of making a hardened bullet
    Patent number: 5464487
    Abstract: A method of a hardening a solid metal object consisting essentially of lead which has been swaged cold wrought, such as a bullet, and a hardened swaged wrought bullet are disclosed in which the bullet is formed from a lead or lead alloy blank by swaging the blank under high pressure in a forming die, heating the formed wrought bullet to a temperature near but less than the slump temperature of the metal, and then quenching the heated swaged wrought bullet in a liquid to rapidly reduce its temperature. The swaged wrought bullet as thus formed is seamless and has a hardness which exceeds at least 15 Brinell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1995
    Assignee: Bull-X, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles K. Bane