BIOLOGICAL BOMB

• US 3,831,520 A
• Filed: 04/10/1958
• Issued: 08/27/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/1958
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Benjamin A. Lambert, David B. Lull, Herbert E. Soini, John R. Sharp, Ralph D. Sanborn, Russell J. Bowen, William B. Ford Jr, Winslow A. Sawyer
• Original Assignee: Benjamin A. Lambert, David B. Lull, Herbert E. Soini, John R. Sharp, Ralph D. Sanborn, Russell J. Bowen, William B. Ford Jr, Winslow A. Sawyer
• Inventors: Bowen, Russell J., Ford, William B. Jr., Sanborn, Ralph D., Sawyer, Winslow A., Sharp, John R., Soini, Herbert E., Lambert, Benjamin A., Lull, David B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Engle, Samuel W.
• Application Number:
  US03/727,754
• Time in Patent Office: 5,983 Days
• Field of Search: 102/6,1S,39,90,92,1,2,60,66,65,90 252/305 167/47 222/399,401 239/328,337,346,373
• US Class Current: 102/369
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/50 by dispersion

Abstract

1. An aerosol bomb comprising an elongated cylindrical casing, a transverse wall in said casing having a rupturable diaphragm and defining a pressure chamber in the front end of said casing, said pressure chamber containing a compressed normally gaseous medium, a set of rotating tail vanes and a nozzle in the opposite end of said casing, a flexible sealed aerosol container within said casing adjacent said nozzle, penetrating means, within said casing, associated with said nozzle and adapted to penetrate said flexible container and conduct its contents to said nozzle, spring biased inertia means between said pressure chamber and said flexible container, said inertia means being held against the bias of the spring by means of centrifugally disengaging pawls, said inertia means serving to move forward, upon impact of the bomb, to penetrate said rupturable diaphragm and to release the gaseous pressure medium in the pressure chamber, said spring bias serving to force the inertia member in the opposite direction to impale the flexible aerosol container on the penetrating means whereby the released gaseous pressure from the pressure chamber serves to collapse said flexible container and expel its contents through the nozzle.

Claims

1. An aerosol bomb comprising an elongated cylindrical casing, a transverse wall in said casing having a rupturable diaphragm and defining a pressure chamber in the front end of said casing said pressure chamber containing a compressed normally gaseous medium, a set of rotating tail vanes and a nozzle in the opposite end of said casing, a flexible sealed aerosol container within said casing adjacent said nozzle, penetrating means, within said casing, associated with said nozzle and adapted to penetrate said flexible container and conduct its contents to said nozzle, spring biased inertia means between said pressure chamber and said flexible container, said inertia means being held against the bias of the spring by means of centrifugally disengaging pawls, said inertia means serving to move forward, upon impact of the bomb, to penetrate said rupturable diaphragm and to release the gaseous pressure medium in the pressure chamber, said spring bias serving to force the inertia member in the opposite direction to impale the flexible aerosol container on the penetrating means whereby the released gaseous pressure from the pressure chamber serves to collapse said flexible container and expel its contents through the nozzle.

2. A structure in accordance with claim 1 wherein said normally gaseous medium is a hydrocarbon.

3. A structure in accordance with claim 1 wherein said normally gaseous medium includes a heat of fusion supplying material combined with a finely dispersed solid whereby the vapor pressure of the gaseous medium is controlled.

4. A structure in accordance with claim 1 wherein said flexible aerosol container is made of a flexible polyethylene.

5. A structure in accordance with claim 1 including dogging means to hold said centrifugally disengaging pawls in disengaged position once they reach that stage through rotation of the bomb.