High energy fuel units and assemblies

• US 3,163,113 A
• Filed: 01/12/1959
• Issued: 12/29/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/1959
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Davis Pauls, Oliver W. Burker Jr
• Original Assignee: Davis Pauls, Oliver W. Burker Jr
• Inventors: Pauls, Davis, Burker, Oliver W. Jr.
• Application Number:
  US03/786,382
• Time in Patent Office: 2,178 Days
• US Class Current: 102/289
• CPC Class Codes: C06B 33/06 the material being an inorganic oxygen-halogen salt
• CPC Class Codes: C06B 43/00 Compositions characterised by explosive or thermic constituents not provided for in groups C06B25/00 - C06B41/00
• CPC Class Codes: C06B 45/00 Compositions or products which are defined by structure or arrangement of component of product explosive charges of particular form or shape F42B1/00, F42B3/00

Claims

1. A HIGH ENERGY FUEL UNIT, SAID FUEL UNIT (A) EMPLOYING AS ITS PRINCIPAL EXOTHERMAL REACTANTS METAL MATERIAL, FLUORINE MATERIAL, AND OXYGEN MATERIAL, (B) SAID METAL MATERIAL BEING PRESENT IN SAID UNIT IN AT LEAST SUBSTANTIAL PART IN THE FORM OF STRUCTURAL REINFORCING METAL, (C) SAID STRUCTURAL REINFORCING METAL BEING SELECTED FROM THE CLASS CONSISTING OF BERYLLIUM, MAGNESIUM, ALUMINUM, TITANIUM, COMBINATIONS OF TWO OR MORE THEREOF, AND ALLOYS OF ANY OF THE FOREGOING WITH AT LEAST ONE OTHER METAL, (D) SAID FLUORINE MATERIAL BEING OF THE CLASS OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS CONTAINING CARBON AND CONSTITUENT MATERIAL SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF THE HALOGENS, HYDROGEN, NITROGEN, OXYGEN AND COMBINATIONS THEREOF, WITH THE LIMITATION THAT SAID CONSTITUENT MATERIAL COMPRISES FLUORINE ATOMS, (E) SAID FLUORINE MATERIAL BEING PRESENT IN SAID UNIT IN AN AMOUNT SUCH THAT ITS HALOGEN CONTENT IS AT LEAST ESSENTIALLY STOICHIOMETRICALLY EQUIVALENT TO SAID STRUCTURAL REINFORCING METAL, AND (F) SAID OXYGEN MATERIAL BEING PRESENT IN SAID UNIT IN THE FORM OF PER-OXY-ACID SALT OF AN INORGANIC ACID FOR SUPPLYING OXYGEN FOR REACTING WITH OXIDIZABLE RESIDUES OF SAID FLUORINE MATERIAL.