Propellant compositions containing a staple metal fuel
First Claim
1. In a propellant composition comprising an oxidizing component selected from the group consisting of inorganic perchlorates or nitrates, metal peroxides, hydrazine nitroformate, and mixtures thereof, a non-metal fuel component selected from the group consisting of inert fuels and fuels rendered active by molecularly combined nitroso, nitro, nitrite or nitrate groups, and mixtures thereof and a metal fuel component, the improvement in which the metal is selected from the group consisting of aluminum, beryllium, zirconium, magnesium, titanium, tungsten, alloys thereof, and mixtures thereof, and is in the form of staple having a maximum thickness of about 0.001 inch, a maximum ratio of thickness to width of about 1 to 4, a minimum length of about 0.03 inch and a maximum ratio of width to length of about 1 to 1.
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Abstract
A gas-generating composition comprising an oxidizer, a non-metal, preferably organic, fuel component, and a metal fuel staple component of a particular size.
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- 1. In a propellant composition comprising an oxidizing component selected from the group consisting of inorganic perchlorates or nitrates, metal peroxides, hydrazine nitroformate, and mixtures thereof, a non-metal fuel component selected from the group consisting of inert fuels and fuels rendered active by molecularly combined nitroso, nitro, nitrite or nitrate groups, and mixtures thereof and a metal fuel component, the improvement in which the metal is selected from the group consisting of aluminum, beryllium, zirconium, magnesium, titanium, tungsten, alloys thereof, and mixtures thereof, and is in the form of staple having a maximum thickness of about 0.001 inch, a maximum ratio of thickness to width of about 1 to 4, a minimum length of about 0.03 inch and a maximum ratio of width to length of about 1 to 1.
- 14. In a gas-generating composition comprising an oxidizing component selected from the group consisting of inorganic perchlorates or nitrates, metal peroxides, hydrazine nitroformate, and mixtures thereof, a non-metal fuel component selected from the group consisting of inert fuels and fuels rendered active by molecularly combined nitroso, nitro, nitrite or nitrate groups, and mixtures thereof, and a metal fuel component, the improvement in which the metal is selected from the group consisting of aluminum, beryllium, zirconium, magnesium, titanium, tungsten, alloys thereof, and mixtures thereof, and is in the form of staple having a maximum thickness of about 0.001 inch, a maximum ratio of thickness to width of about 1 to 4, a minimum length of about 0.03 inch and a maximum ratio of width to length of about 1 to 1.
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