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Provisional Patent Application Number: 62/654,339

Filing Date: Jun. 18, 2018

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No disclosure of this invention was made at any time before the provisional patent filing date of Jun. 18, 2018.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

(1) Field of the Invention

Ammunition (F42 for other reference)

(2) Description of Related Art

A projectile dynamic balance machine of the captured vertical/air stream exist and is referenced under patent U.S. Pat. No. 2,353,150.

This Deitz device of 1943 utilizes a vertical cone stator and pressurized airflow to induce rotation upon a projectile about its primary axis, while the projectile is confined within the device. The desired effect is to cause rotation of the projectile about its long axis, and the desired result is the measurement of the dynamic imbalance of the bullet by way of an armature/coil included within the patented design.

The Deitz Bullet Spinning Machine necessitates a flexibly supported quadric, conical, ellipsoidal, or concave stator, whereby the shape of both the rotor and stator slowly, mutually and increasingly diverge from their mutual annular point of contact. According to Deitz, the ring of jets must be precisely located within the stator so as to direct pressurized air towards the rotor at the said location of minimum clearance between the stator and the rotor. The air jets are also positioned obliquely upwards, approximately 15 degrees from horizontal. The device requires 25-30 pounds per square inch of pressurized air to operate. Other prior art involves induced air currents upon the sidewall of a projectile, yet induced at a location along the sidewall of the main body maximum diameter. This prior art also incorporates the generation of an electrical signal that is supplied to a stereo headset. Reference to balance is witnessed by way of listening to the pitch (frequency) of the electrical signal. (Harold Vaughn, “Rifle Accuracy Facts”. 1998. pp. 173-174)

In all prior art, the projectiles are encumbered and prevented from free range of motion and are supported along their sidewalls of primary axis by a stator, a supportive wall, floor or plate. This encumbrance prevents the visual comparison of rotating projectiles in a swirling vortex, prevents full oscillative motion of the projectile before it becomes unstable at varying RPM's, prevents the visual witnessing of low and high frequency oscillation, and do not intend to permit the measurement of relative ballistic coefficient, by way of measuring relative air resistance in the vertical vector. Further, no prior art of any individual device is readily adaptable to a broad range of projectiles, across several calibers. This, because of the necessary form of the stator, and necessary location of the air jets. No prior art is readily adaptable to industrial applications, where mass quantities of projectiles can be tested in situ at the loading operation. This, because the stator hole will accept either point-downward or point-upward projectiles, yet the form of the stator and necessary location of the air jets will not provide reliable characterization of the tested object.

In all prior art, nothing permits the sum of force vectors to cause a projectile to “fly” nose first or base first, with a swirling vortex originating below the vertex or heel of the projectile, the projectile essentially hovering above the entire device, the device imparting both lift and rotation about the projectiles long axis unencumbered in a swirling vortex. No prior art claims relative measurement of ballistic coefficient (expressed as higher flight in the swirling vortex, or witnessed by instrumentation of air pressure) oscillation, balance, essentially mimicking the true environment (dynamic balance under high RPM and air resistance) within which a fired projectile flies.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

A non-destructive device that measures the dynamic stability and relative ballistic coefficient of an object. The invention is a conglomeration of simple pipes and valves that direct and control gas or other medium upon a projectile frontal or tall area and cause the vertex or heel of a projectile to spin unencumbered at or above the origin of vortex generation, with the projectile main axis perpendicular to the ground.

