US 10,317,182 B1 · Foamed celluloid delay fuze

Foamed celluloid delay fuze

AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army

InventorsMohamed Elalem, Philip Abbate, Vincent Gonsalves, Matthew P. Evangelisti, John W. Grassia, Steve Kotefski, Nikola Kotefski, Ming-Wan Young, Fei Shen, Chong Peng, Linjie Zhu, Viral Panchal

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Abstract

A safety fuze for use in military and commercial applications, includes a fuze body that is attached to a trigger mechanism, an energetic train contained within the fuze body, and a non-energetic fuze delay mixture that is formed in a rod form so that it can dropped inside the fuze body, without modification to the other components of the safety fuze. Preferably, the non-energetic fuze delay mixture is made of foamed celluloid.

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Dependent claims

A safety fuze comprising:

a trigger mechanism;
a primer, and
a non-energetic fuze delay composition initiated by the primer, wherein the non-energetic delay composition is comprised essentially of foam celluloid fully nested in a delay channel.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.