ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,751, issued on Nov. 25.
"Ammunition decapping apparatus" was invented by Kevin Gerald Whitehead (Roleystone, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is ammunition decapping apparatus 10 comprising a decapping platform 12, a case receptacle 14, a die gantry 40 arranged over the decapping platform 12 and including a reciprocating die mount 42, and a case feeder 46 configured to operatively feed a case upright onto the decapping platform 12. Also included is a case urger 48 configured to urge a case fed from the case feeder 46 into the case receptacle 14, and an actuator arrangement 50 configured to actuate the case urger 48 a...