Oxygen-generating chemical composition

• US 4,490,274 A
• Filed: 06/07/1983
• Issued: 12/25/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Vsesojuzny Nauchno-Issledovatelsky Institut Gornospasatelngo DELA
• Original Assignee: Vsesojuzny Nauchno-Issledovatelsky Institut Gornospasatelngo DELA
• Inventors: Zborschik, Ljubov A., Maslyaev, Viktor S., Sagalovsky, Evgeny S., Filimonova, Ljudmila Y., Gorovets, Petr M., Khudosovtseva, Galina P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Padgett, Benjamin R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Caress, Virginia B.
• Application Number:
  US06/501,720
• Time in Patent Office: 567 Days
• Field of Search: 252/186.38, 252/186.21, 252/186.22, 252/186.43
• US Class Current: 252/186.22
• CPC Class Codes: C01B 13/0211 Peroxy compounds

Abstract

A chemical composition comprising oxygenic ingredients and activators whi when activated, generates oxygen for use in breathing mixtures, the oxygenic ingredients being potassium superoxide and sodium peroxide and the activators being aluminum hydroxide, manganese dioxide and powdered aluminum all taken in a proportion as follows, wt. %:

sodium peroxide, Na₂ O₂, 10-20;

aluminum hydroxide, Al(OH)₃, 15-25;

manganese dioxide, MnO₂, 5-7;

powdered aluminium, Al, 2.5-3.5;

potassium superoxide, KO₂, the balance.

Claims

1. A chemical composition which generates oxygen on being activated, for use in breathing mixtures which comprises oxygenic ingredients as well as activators, the oxygenic ingredients being potassium superoxide and sodium peroxide and the activators being aluminium hydroxide, manganese dioxide and powerded aluminium all taken in a proportion as follows, wt.%:

sodium peroxide, Na₂ O₂, 10-20;

aluminium hydroxide, Al(OH)₃, 15-25;

manganese dioxide, MnO₂, 5-7;

powdered aluminium, Al, 2.5-3.5;

potassium superoxide, the balance.