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4472215 Continuous method and apparatus for the preparation of explosives emulsion precursor  
A process and apparatus is provided for the continuous manufacture of a water-in-oil explosive emulsion precursor. Separate streams of the water phase component and the oil phase component are...
4469647 Method and apparatus for mixing, casting and dispensing friction-sensitive pyrotechnic materials  
Constituent pyrotechnic materials are dispensed by prescribed weight or volume into a single container containing an excess volume of an inert liquid, such as Freon T.E., having the property of...
4461660 Bulk manufacture of emulsion explosives  
A method and apparatus is provided for the efficient and safe manufacture of batch quantities of non-cap-sensitive emulsion explosives. The method employs none of the high shear mixing or...
4456494 System for making an aqueous slurry-type blasting composition  
A blasting composition, method, and system for making such is disclosed. The blasting composition consists essentially of a particulate inorganic nitrate oxidizer, a particulate metal fuel, water,...
4455179 Method for the preparation of magnetically traceable explosives  
The invention provides a novel magnetically traceable or detectable explosive blended with a magnetic ferrite powder which facilitates the detection of the misfired explosive, e.g. dynamite,...
4453989 Solid sensitizers for water-in-oil emulsion explosives  
A water-in-oil emulsion explosive composition comprising a carbonaceous fuel, and inorganic oxidizer, an emulsifier, and a sensitizing/densifying agent of finely divided non-explosive material of...
4452145 Propellant for base-bleed gas generators and process for manufacturing it  
Process for the manufacture of a propellant for base-bleed gas generators, thus for generators made of a gas-producing charge for the increase of range wherein a binder and one or more granular or...
4445948 Polymer modified TNT containing explosives  
The present invention relates to an improved explosive TNT based composit consisting of TNT, HDX, RDX, aluminum and a small amount of an elastomeric linear polymer having polar groups dissolved or...
4432818 Compositions for use in heat-generating reactions  
Compositions capable of exothermic reaction in the condensed state are prepared by pressing a mixture of powders comprising a reactive metal such as titanium, boron carbide and, optionally, carbon...
4430132 Desensitizing explosives  
A process for desensitizing sensitive explosives materials such as RDX or HMX involves stirring a paste of the explosives material in a liquid medium, usually water, with a wax which will soften...
4428786 Process for preparing a high power explosive, high power explosive produced thereby, and method for shaping a high power explosive  
A plastic bound high power explosive comprises 90 to 97 percent by weight of a powerful explosive compound, for example octogen, and 3 to 10 percent by weight of a novel stabilizing and binding...
4427467 Low viscosity air breathing missile fuel  
An improved ramjet fuel consisting of hydrogenated hydrocarbons uses a mium weight percentage of 50% tetrahydromethylcyclopentadiene dimer (TH-dimer) with about 50% by wt....
4425170 Desensitizing explosives  
Sensitive explosive materials such as RDX or HMX may be desensitized by stirring them up with micronised wax in a liquid medium, usually water. The wax is in the form of particles having a mean...
4424087 Method for desensitizing particle formed solid explosive substances  
The invention deals with a method for temporarily eliminating those risks associated with transporting, storing and generally handling particle formed solid explosive substances. According to the...
4421578 Castable high explosive compositions of low sensitivity  
A high explosive composition comprising 2 to 57% ammonium nitrate 2 to 50% ethylenediamine dinitrate 1 to 10% potassium nitrate 1 to 80% nitroguanidine These explosive compositions...
4420440 Film cartridge manufacture and filling method and apparatus  
A method and apparatus is provided for cartridging viscous explosives mixtures, such as emulsion explosives, in convolutely wound paper tubes. The method comprises winding a section of paper film...
4419155 Method for preparing ternary mixtures of ethylenediamine dinitrate, ammonium nitrate and potassium nitrate  
An explosive ternary nitrate mixture of ethylenediamine dinitrate, ammonium itrate, and potassium is prepared by mixing together approximately stoichiometric amounts of aqueous nitric acid,...
4410470 Increasing burning rate of solid propellants by electric field effects  
Disclosed is a method for increasing the burning rate of solid propellants hich contain metal staples and/or metal flakes, etc., through the use of an electrical field effect created by the...
4410378 Method of producing water-in-oil emulsion explosive  
A method of producing water-in-oil emulsion explosive by carrying out emulsification and kneading of a raw material mixture in one step is disclosed. In the method, hollow microspheres and a...
4409044 Water-in-oil emulsion explosives and a method for the preparation of the same  
A water-in-oil explosives composition comprising water, liquid or liquefiable carbonaceous fuel and inorganic oxidizer salt, optionally with gassing agent and/or thickening agent, and containing...
4405392 Method of making priming composition  
A method of producing a priming composition comprising reacting components to produce a primary explosive and a by-product which remains in the composition.
4398978 High density, low viscosity airbreather fuel (RJ-4-I)  
A method for preparation of high density, high energy, low viscosity liquid ydrocarbon fuel by catalytic treatment of tetrahydrodimethyldicyclopentadiene (RJ-4) synthetic fuel. Endo-isomers within...
4389264 Process for the manufacture of insulated propellant sets and of propelling sets provided with an insulating envelope  
Process for the manufacture of insulated propellant sets for base-bleed gas generators, said propellant set consisting of a propellant containing one or more solid substances, at least one of which...
4389265 Breakdown of solid propellants and explosives, recovery of nitramines  
Processes for reclaiming nitramines from propellants by dissolution of the rosslinked propellant binder by heating the propellant with either (1) a mixture of 2-aminoethanol, an aromatic solvent,...
4388254 System for making a homogeneous aqueous slurry-type blasting composition  
A blasting composition, method and system for making such is disclosed. The blasting composition is a homogeneous slurry-type blasting agent containing a major amount of water and a relatively...
4377426 Pyrotechnic process  
This application relates to the art of pyrotechnics and specifically concerns an improvement in the process for preparing granulated pyrotechnic compositions.
4376666 Process for the recovery of carborane from reject propellant  
Disclosed is a process for the recovery of carborane from reject solid prllant. The process comprises slicing or shredding into small pieces the solid propellant under water, screening the...
4367103 Explosive composition  
A powder explosive composition comprising particulate inorganic oxidizing salt, finely divided metal sensitizer and, optionally additional fuel consisting of discrete granules containing oxidizing...
4367351 High density fuel compositions  
A high density specialty fuel for propelling limited volume ramjet and turbojet missile systems comprising a blend of at least 70 weight percent of exotetrahydrodicyclopentadiene and a...
4363678 Explosives having powdered ferrite magnet as a tracer dispersed therethrough and a method for producing the same  
An explosive having a relatively small amount of powdered ferrite magnet dispersed therethrough, each magnet particle coated with a resin coating which is stable for the explosive material on the...
4362584 Method for binary propellant  
This invention relates to propellants and in particular to a method for safely forming a binary propellant. More specifically, this invention relates to a method for safely forming a Binary...
4361526 Thermoplastic composite rocket propellant  
A process is disclosed by which thermoplastic elastomers may be utilized to repare melt-formable composite rocket propellants. The thermoplastic elastomer is dissolved in a volatile organic...
4360394 Production of fine-grained cast charges with unoriented crystal structure of TNT or explosive compositions containing TNT  
An effective amount of 5-nitrobarbituric acid or its trihydrate, when mixed ith molten TNT explosive permits the TNT explosive to set with a fine unoriented crystal structure. In one embodiment,...
4354884 Process for preparing progressive burning propellant granules  
Progressive burning propellant granules are prepared by a process in which the solvent-wet propellant granules are wetted with a mixture of burning rate deterrent and solvent. The burning rate...
4353758 Direct process for explosives  
A direct process of making ethylenediamine dinitrate through the reaction of ethylenediamine and ammonium nitrate.
4352699 Co-nitrating trimetholethane and diethylene glycol  
It has been discovered that when co-nitrating a mixture of trimethylolethane and diethylene glycol, a storage stable spent acid can be obtained if during the co-nitration an excess of from about 60...
4347087 Granular propellant powder based on nitrocellulose, oily nitrate ester and polyvinyl nitrate, and process  
The present invention relates to propellant powders based on nitrocellulose, nitrated oil and polyvinyl nitrate and also to the process for their manufacture. The powders according to the invention...
4343664 Production of polymer bonded nitramine explosive and propellant compositions  
Polymer bonded nitramine based explosives and propellants are prepared by diation polymerization of a polymer precurser, such as methyl methacrylate, in mixture with a particulate nitramine, e.g....
4338146 Method of manufacturing emulsion explosive insensitive to a #8 detonator  
A method of manufacturing an emulsion explosive which is insensitive to a number 8 detonator comprising forming a water solution of at least one oxidizing salt dispersed in a fuel such as oil, wax,...
4336084 Method for making primer constituents  
An improved method for producing known primer constituents lead styphnate and barium nitrate, in situ, plus water. The process is carried out by reacting effective amounts of trinitroresorcinol...
4333737 Reclamation of materials from photoflash cartridges  
A process is provided for reclaiming materials from photoflash cartridges ich are comprised of aluminum, barium nitrate and potassium perchlorate. The photoflash composition is dumped into heated...
4331490 Ammonium nitrate slurry compositions  
A slurry composition based essentially on ammonium nitrate, prepared by a process which comprises comminuting solid substance containing ammonium nitrate by grinding in the presence of a saturated...
4325759 Preparation of TNT-thermoplastic polymer granules readily soluble in a TNT melt  
A process is provided for preparing a composition composed of TNT and a tmoplastic organic polymer containing as high as 30-35% of the polymer, in the form of a granular product, which is rapidly...
4320238 High density turbine fuel  
A high density fuel composition having low temperature operational capability for propelling turbo-jet, limited volume missile systems consisting essentially of at least 95 weight percent...
4309229 Method of generating water vapor free gas  
A chemical gas generant mixture of carbon, an oxidizer which does not contain hydrogen and, optionally, a carbonate or other coolant.
4309230 Process for reproducibly preparing titanium subhydride  
Titanium subhydride is produced in a reactor by heating a selected amount of finely divided titanium compound at a selected temperature for a selected period of time under dynamic vacuum...
4300961 Process for deterrent coating of triple base propellant compositions  
A process is provided for deterrent coating of propellant compositions useful as gun propellant in which the propellant contains nitrocellulose, nitroglycerin and nitroguanidine. In the process...
4297303 Preparation and reaction of energy producing waste material composition  
Waste materials from the conversion of iron ore to pig iron or steel combine with a reducing metal, such as aluminum or magnesium, and a small portion of a mineral acid to form a reaction mixture...
4293351 Silicone rubber explosive and method of making  
Explosive materials in granular or other finely divided form are distributed in pourable silicone rubber with acetic acid added as a catalyst.
4287010 Emulsion-type explosive composition and method for the preparation thereof  
Emulsion-type explosives having improved storage stability are formed by combining an aqueous solution of an inorganic oxidizing salt and an oil in the liquid phase with agitation in the presence...