US 10,288,390 B2 · Concealed amalgamated explosive neutralizer and method of manufacture

Abstract

A concealed amalgamated neutralizer covertly combines neutralizer material comprised of various combinations of inert materials such as calcium carbonate or silicates with common explosive material for the prevention of malicious use of the explosive material in improvised explosive devices. The concealed amalgamated neutralizer device may vary in shape, size, and color and is therefore adaptable to varying methods of containment typified by common pyrotechnic products. The neutralizer material mimics the explosive material of the pyrotechnic products without detection. Upon disassembly of a concealed amalgamated neutralizer device, the neutralizer material is mixed with and neutralizes the explosive material rendering the explosive material useless as a component for an improvised explosive device.

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Dependent claims

A method of forming a pyrotechnic device, comprising the steps of:

choosing an explosive material having a first set of properties;
wherein the first set of properties comprises one or more of color and grain size of the explosive material in a dry form;
choosing a neutralizer material having a second set of properties which approximate the one or more of color and grain size of the first set of properties;
forming an indiscernible boundary interface within the pyrotechnic device and between the explosive material and the neutralizer material;
wherein the indiscernible boundary interface is visually indiscernible with unassisted vision;
forming a substrate layer;
and,
forming a plastic layer between the substrate layer and one of the explosive material and the neutralizer material.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/172,000Filed 2 Jun 2016 · continuation in part

Priority

17 Sep 2015

Published

US 2017/0081254 A123 Mar 2017

Granted

14 May 2019

Term ends

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Classification10 codes

F41J 9/165
Clay-pigeon targets; Clay-disc targets: with hit-marking or tracer means
C06B 21/0091
Apparatus or methods for working-up explosives, e.g. forming, cutting, drying: elimination of undesirable or temporary components of an…
C06B 45/12
Compositions or products which are defined by structure or arrangement of component of product: having contiguous layers or zones
F41J 1/01
Targets; Target stands; Target holders: target discs characterised by their material, structure or surface, e.g. clay pigeon targets characterised…

Family

Application14/857,061Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 17 Sep 2015

US 2017/0081255 A1Pre-grant publication · published 23 Mar 2017

US 9,714,199 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part

US 2017/0081254 A1Published application

US 10,288,390 B2This patent

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Abstract

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