Patents Assigned to Safety Shot Limited Partnership
  • Environmentally improved shot
    Patent number: 5189252
    Abstract: Environmentally improved alternatives to lead shot are provided that overcoat a lead coat with a chemically inert polymer bonded thereto by heating lead shot coated with the polymer above the melting point of the lead shot, or by substituting for lead a combination of dense metal and light metal, and either a core/coating bimetallic sphere relationship or a matrix of light metal provided with powder of a heavy metal embedded therein. The composite shot exhibits a density similar to that of lead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1993
    Assignee: Safety Shot Limited Partnership
    Inventors: John Huffman, John Shannon
  • Environmentally improved shot
    Patent number: 5088415
    Abstract: Environmentally improved alternatives to lead shot are provided that overcoat a lead core with a chemically inert polymer bonded thereto by heating lead shot coated with the polymer above the melting point of the lead shot, or by substituting for lead a combination of dense metal and light metal, and either a core/coating bimetallic sphere relationship or a matrix of light metal provided with powder of a heavy metal embedded therein. The composite shot exhibits a density similar to that of lead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Assignee: Safety Shot Limited Partnership
    Inventors: John Huffman, John Shannon