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Date claimed for Patent under Patents and Designs
Act, 1907, being date of first Foreign Appli- |e Sept., 1909
cation (in Portugal),
Date of Application (in the United Kingdom), 22nd Sept., 1910
At the expiration of twelve months from the date of the first Foreign Appli-
cation, the provision of Section 91 (3) (a) of the Patents and Designs Act, 1907,
as to inspection of Specification, became operative
Accepted, 27th Apr., 1911
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Safety Explosives,
I, Maver Axtoxio Goanis Hnwaraxa, residing at Praca do Municipio No. 19,
20, ‘Lisbon, Clergyman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention ‘and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in’ and by the following statement:
This invention relates to processes for manufacturing safety explosives of
the type described in the Specifications of my earlier Patents No. 4439 of 1907
and 20,931 of 1907, which processes are characterised by the intimate mixture
of an alkaline chlorate with ono or more combustible substances and an oil,
with or without metallic oxides or various sulphates.
The present invention has for its object to render such explosives quicker in
action and consequently more shattering and it consists in improved processes
of the type referred to'in which a metallic powder is added to the mixture.
The use of finely divided metals is known in the manufacture of other
of explosives, and it has been proposed to manufacture an explosive by mixin
pulverized aluminium or magnesium with a chlorate or perchlorate and with
charcoal or organic matter.
In carrying out the invention the following materials are mixed together :—
(1) Oue or more chlorates or perchlorates of the alkaline family or alkaline
earths, for example, the chlorate of calcium, sodium or potassium }
(2) A solid combustible material, for example, starch, cellulose, sawdust,
charcoal, or mineral coal, or any mixturé of same;
(3) One or more inetals reduced to very fine dust, for example, pyrophoric
iron, magnesium, and aluminium.
(4) One or more oils of vegetable, animal or mineral origin or even. the more
or less pasty fatty mass obtained from the distillation of petroleum or tar, or
athor similar products obtained from the distillation of wood, coal, or bituminous
shales ete.
‘Yo the above materials may be added to the whole mass or separately to
anyone of the ingredients;
(5) One or more metallic oxides, for example: Iron sesquioxide or other
oxides of iron, chromium, manganese, copper, barium; or else copper sulphate
or other sulphates preferably dehyirated or roasted to a degree not exceeding
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