Explosive slurries containing an inorganic oxidizer salt and particulate fibrous naturally wet pulpy plant matter

• US 3,361,604 A
• Filed: 07/25/1966
• Issued: 01/02/1968
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/1966
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: George L. Griffith
• Original Assignee: George L. Griffith
• Inventors: Griffith, George L.
• Application Number:
  US04/567,407
• Time in Patent Office: 526 Days
• US Class Current: 149/44
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: C06B 31/30 with vegetable matter; with resin; with rubber
• CPC Class Codes: C06B 47/14 comprising a solid component and an aqueous phase

Claims

1. AN EXPLOSIVE SLURRY CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF AN INORGANIC OXIDIZER SALT, SUFFICIENT PARTICULATE FIBROUS NATURALLY WET PULPY PLANT MATTER TO OXYGEN-BALANCE THE OXIDIZER AND TO ACT AS A THICKENING AGENT, AND SUFFICIENT LIQUID TO ACT AS A SUSPENDING MEDIUM FOR THE SOLID INGREDIENTS.

7. AN EXPLOSIVE SLURRY IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLAIM 1 INCLUDING IN ADDITION A METAL FUEL.

17. AN EXPLOSIVE SLURRY CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF FROM ABOUT 10 TO ABOUT 95% BY WEIGHT OF AN INORGANIC OXIDIZER SALT, FROM ABOUT 0.1 TO ABOUT 30% BY WEIGHT HOMOGENEEOUSLY DISINTEGRATED FIBROUS NATURALLY WET PULPY PLANT MATTER, FROM ABOUT 0 TO ABOUT 40% BY WEIGHT OF AN EXPLOSIVE SENSITIZER SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF NITROSTARCH, TRINITROTOLUENE, DINITROTOLUENCE, LPENTAERYTHRITOL, TETRANITRATE, TRIMETHYLOLETHANE TRINITRATE, PENTOLITE, CYCLONITE, NITROCELLULOSE, COMPOSITION B, CYCLOTOL, TETRYL, SMOKELESS POWDER AND BALL POWDER, AND SUFFICIENT LIQUID WITHIN THE RANGE FROM ABOUT 7 TO ABOUT 50% BY WEIGHT TO ACT AS A SUSPENDING MEDIUM FOR THE SOLID INGREDIENTS.