Aluminum-chlorine detonator catalyst for hydrocarbon propellant

• US 2,995,987 A
• Filed: 06/18/1954
• Issued: 08/15/1961
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/1954
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John A. Fitzpatrick
• Original Assignee: John A. Fitzpatrick
• Inventors: Fitzpatrick, John A.
• Application Number:
  US03/437,898
• Time in Patent Office: 2,615 Days
• US Class Current: 89/7
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 27/06 Halogens; Compounds thereof
• CPC Class Codes: C06B 23/007 Ballistic modifiers, burning rate catalysts, burning rate depressing agents, e.g. for gas generating
• CPC Class Codes: C06B 47/00 Compositions in which the components are separately stored until the moment of burning or explosion, e.g. "Sprengel"-type explosives; Suspensions of solid component in a normally non-explosive liquid phase, including a thickened aqueous phase
• CPC Class Codes: C06C 7/02 Manufacture; Packing
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 1/04 Missile propulsion using the combustion of a liquid, loose powder or gaseous fuel, e.g. hypergolic fuel
• CPC Class Codes: F42C 19/0803 characterised by the combination of per se known chemical composition in the priming substance
• CPC Class Codes: F42C 19/0823 Primers or igniters for the initiation or the propellant charge in a cartridged ammunition primers for caseless ammunition F42C19/085
• CPC Class Codes: F42C 19/10 Percussion caps

Claims

1. THE METHOD OF PROPELLING A PROJECTILE FROM A GUN BY DETONATING IN THE CHAMBER OF THE GUN A PRIMER MIXTURE CONTAINING A FIRST COMPONENT OF A CATALYST FORMING EXOTHERMIC REACTION MIXTURE SO AS TO MIX SAID FIRST COMPONENT WITH A SECOND COMPONENT OF SAID REACTION MIXTURE, AND SIMULTANEOUSLY INTRODUCING THE CATALYST SO FORMED INTO A CHARGE OF ACETYLENE AND ETHANE IN THE GUN CHAMBER