Inorganic oxidizer salt explosive compositions containing particulate paper sheet as a pouring density reducer

• US 3,361,603 A
• Filed: 09/21/1965
• Issued: 01/02/1968
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Barclaysamerican/Business Credit Incorporated
• Original Assignee: George L. Griffith
• Inventors: Griffith, George L.
• Application Number:
  US04/489,075
• Time in Patent Office: 833 Days
• US Class Current: 149/38
• CPC Class Codes: C06B 23/001 Fillers, gelling and thickening agents (e.g. fibres) , absorbents for nitroglycerine binders, plasticisers for propellants C06B45/10; crosslinking or curing agents C06B45/10

Claims

1. AN EXPLOSIVE COMPOSITION CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF AN INORGANIC OXIDIZER SALT, AND A MEMBER SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF NITRATED ORGANIC SINSITIZERS, CARBONACEOUS FUELS, METALLIC FUELS AND MIXTURES THEREOF AND AN AMOUNT OF PARTICULATE THIN PAPER SHEET SUFFICIENT TO LESSEN THE POURING DENSITY OF THE COMPOSITION.

7. AN EXPLOSIVE COMPOSITION IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLAIM 1, CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF A NITRATED ORGANIC SENSITIZER IN AN AMOUNT FROM ABOUT 5 TO ABOUT 40 PERCENT BY WEIGHT, AN INORGANIC NITRATE OXIDIZER SALT IN AN AMOUNT FROM ABOUT 10 TO ABOUT 75 PERCENT BY WEIGHT, AND A METALLIC OR CARBONACEOUS FUEL.

8. AN EXPLOSIVE COMPOSITION IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLAIM 7, IN WHICH SAID MEMBER IS A METAL FUEL.