Linear polyester resin gas-generating compositions containing ammonium nitrate and perchlorate

• US 3,203,842 A
• Filed: 09/09/1963
• Issued: 08/31/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John N. Godfrey
• Original Assignee: John N. Godfrey
• Inventors: Godfrey, John N.
• Application Number:
  US04/307,311
• Time in Patent Office: 722 Days
• US Class Current: 149/19.5
• CPC Class Codes: C06B 45/10 the organic component containing a resin
• CPC Class Codes: C08K 3/16 Halogen-containing compounds
• CPC Class Codes: C08L 67/00 Compositions of polyesters obtained by reactions forming a carboxylic ester link in the main chain of polyester-amides C08L77/12; of polyester-imides C08L79/08; Compositions of derivatives of such polymers

Claims

1. A GAS-GENERATING COMPOSITION COMPRISING BETWEEN ABOUT 60% AND ABOUT 70% OF AN OXIDIZER COMPONENT AND CORRESPONDINGLY BETWEEN ABOUT 40% AND ABOUT 30% OF A BINDER COMPONENT, SAID OXIDIZER COMPONENT CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF BETWEEN ABOUT 10% AND ABOUT 30% AMMONIUM PERCHLORATE AND CORRESPONDINGLY BETWEEN ABOUT 60% AND 40% AMMONIUM NITRATE, EACH OF THE SAID PERCENTAGES BEING BASED UPON TH TOTAL WEIGHT OF SAID OXIDIZER COMPONENT AND SAID BINDER COMPONENT, SAID BINDER COMPONENT COMPRISING A CURED, SUBSTANTIALLY LINEAR SATURATED POLYESTER RESIN HAVING AN AVERAGE OF BETWEEN ABOUT 2 AND ABOUT 3 CARBOXYL GROUPS PER MOLECULE, WHEREIN SAID POLYESTER IS THE REACTION PRODUCT OF AN ACID COMPONENT AND A SATURATED ALCOHOL COMPONENT, SAID ACID COMPONENT BEING A MEMBER SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF SATURATED ALIPHATIC POLYCARBOXYLIC ACID, ITS ANHYDRIDE, AND MIXTURES THEREOF, SAID ALCOHOL COMPONENT BEING A MIXTURE OF SATURATED DIHYDRIC ALCOHOL AND SATURATED POLYHYDRIC ALCOHOL HAVING AT LEAST THREE REACTIVE HYDROXYL GROUPS.