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ADULPH FRANK, OF CHARLQTTEH

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FJPECIEFIGATEQZY forming- part of Letters Patent 3T0. "792,511; dated June 113, lie/"3362.
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.Zlpplioation ?led August 10, 19043. Eerie! No. 220,226.

1'0 will whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, Anonru FRANK, e sub

jeot of theKing of Prussia7 German Emperor,

residing

that completely or newly-completely osrluon

dioxid 13 formed

in oxidizing dioy'sndiemid

according to the equation

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Eerlinerstresse' 26, Ulinrlottem

burg, Germany, have invented

and useful
Improvements in Explosive Compositions, of

witl'iont unyrerneinder Irena-one i \

which the following; is e speci?cation.

lent~-i.
shout-one
a, from ei drool
ityeiour
e' d thirty yenon
The present invention relates to the use of eruid
we liter 55
oysnsmids-el 0., eyanemid, 'dicyandiumicl; gases are formed
e, om one h .o' about
Ni

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tricyentriemid (melemin), the suits of the sixteen. hundred liter

_ said substencesawith acids or motels for the

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the addition of L243 kilo eight hundl

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manufacture of explosives and the explosives oxygen is required. Prefereblythe sired

containing oysnumids. The object of the addition ofoxygen
outed bymini eyes
said use of the oyansmids consists especially
in reducing the temperature of the gases
formed by the" detonation of the explosives
without diminishing the propelling or blast
ing power of the explosive. in explosives, as

umid (dioyendio,mid9 trieyentristnid} or

salts in it suitable proportion with

capable of yielding
tion.

Us?

on '

its d

Such salts are, for 'instnnoe, n

chloretes, perchlorstes, mengenetee, _

smokeless powder of nitrocellulose or a mite

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gene-tee; chrometes'perchrornetes of the elite

ture of nitroglycerin end nitrocellulose, by lies; earth slkulies. or motels, ?nesse}; also
the addition of c'ysnemids the temperature of use any suitable oxygemyieldi _0X"i(i'-f0?
the gases formed by the detonation is dimln; instance, peroxi l. One
use single salt
ished, whereby an injury made by the deto or oxid or s, mixtureof
suits or oxide 70
na'tion to the guns is entirely avoided ordi orperoxids and even e mixture of salts end
minished. In mining-explosives the in?um oxide.
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motion of ?re-damp is avoided by the said sch- @f the nitrates one may prefeznoly use ini
dition of cyunamid or cysnnnfiids1 and e greet

of ammonia,

{Zine rosya howevera use

safety against mining accidents is obtained. any othes nitrate, organic or inorganic.
According to the present invention genen

ally cynnamids or it smells eyansmid or salts

~' It nitrous acid may be evolved in the ex

plosions'it is suitable to use more eyenemid
(dicysndiemid, tricynntrismid) than
Y be

of the cyunamids, with acids or metals, may

be added to every substance or mixture of sub oxidized by the oxygen evolved. One em?
stances which are capable to be detonated.
ploys such amount of cysnsmid (dicyendi
- In the following the present invention is de ernid5 trioyentriamid) that diszo compounds
35 scribed in the Way of example in the use for may be formed by the notion of the nitrous

explosives containing; substances being shleto acid ongth'e cysnemid (dicyendismid, tricya-n

give oii' oxygen by their decomposition or triumid) may not as s cyanogen guenidin,
detonation.
which is converted by'combining with water
Cysnernid having the formula. ?lihlg, di into guefnylures sud byqeornbiningr, with em 85

cyendiemid' having the formula Calishh, tri

monis into'big?nsnid. The amide groups will

cyentrismid (melarnin) having; the formula be diuzotized by the nitrouseeid evolved in

CnlisNoCOlltillD in hundred parts 28.572 parts the explosion. "The diezo compounds have a

carbon, 4.762 parts hydrogen; 66.666 parts ,peculinrvelocity of decomposition, which is

. nitrogen. For burning the carbon of the said

45 compounds to carbon monoxid one atom of
oxygen is required for each atom of carbon.
One may7 however, conduct the combustion so

very useful for the power of the explosive and

avoiding en increesing of temperature of ex
@losion.v Une uses with ammonium nitrate es

oxidizing sgent a larger amount of cyenarnid

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the explosives, as the velocity 02" (letoimtien
i or cembuslqion, the power of the explosive,
the

' 'julnso water, 620.

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Gne may add 40 the e (loom/H norm-lug be

lhepresentiuvention e1 1iy~n:-;
if: metals,
l as, the :neluls of the mirth-ill
R, nhnumn

ux

uni, mugnesiunn Sees-i in the form of now] i;

v

hips, Sue.

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,' also use 2min;

e L -

e niiouiug
q, osii'osiproportions:' $42.,
live 0 iif-- ;l blot and mineral fats; gluea oils, fatt? neles, i};

copollium, resinsmnrnishes, lllCS. The skilled

' , (or di.

inety-live to e k

mid, tri
Live parts

workman will select the additions suitable for ~

his e eial purposes. The munufnetureof the

Ill uzu, (ornpproprinle propor l explosives is carried outv even "with the "
um, sodium, lmriuni, calcium, l additions in the usual manneu especially l
i

adapted for the so-culled safety oxplorsives

:hnt are detonated by (.letonalors, mereury~
fulminute capsules and such like.
HLQYWSiLmL lend, 63cc.)
The explosives according ?e the. nreuenb in
plosives eccord-
vention have
of thewhen
samecompared
kind thewith
:ulv'mtag'e
other of
invention is carried out in l plosives
iriumstronliuuhealeiuni,
no1 _ofstrrlmtium,
potassium,leash)
(or s0~
or l

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or manner to the manufacture of the liheratingu very high percentage of nitrogon,

v the all
in one on. ?ne; which does not evolve 'the l'm'mution of heat,

u instance, the eomniii'iuted eornpo~ 1l but absorbs a part of the heat; liberal-ml by
her in a dry stzie or after having Il the ii tonulion or-comhunfi'on. Uue ohluins
CQZlGllZuDCl eomminuleo the mixture, '
{his Wu; lowering
the temperature of
re completely (luring or alter l the eonihusiion orof the } 05 formed by the
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resultinn'
ng' been <lr

'xiuros, if re
n3; he pressed

i detonation, whereas at the sumo time an in

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- creasing of
in); rzuilnlale Form or may he i in the gjiluee
l

the explosive power is rruehml.

of the eynnzunirls also lhe Hulls

.7 loone shit inlo cartridges.

of the eyunnmuls, wit/h acids or b85953, may he
preferably, the cyunlnnid oh- j used either alone or mixed with the uncom
'. i > or treating a. suitable
hined eyanznuids. (lne may use a single Mill?
?ier inst-azure, 1; leiuni eyu. ~ or 21 mixture of several nulls either with :aehls
. hot Water and emporzztingthe re- i or bases. By the .V(ii'(l 'eyunumul " :rreord
liquid to dryness. L()ne ohtaiuu
i ing Z10 the present inventioi'i one has to un

Y Mamixture of eyunmniahv Clieyun-zh

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ntz'iamiil.

derstand oyzmianiid, illlij'llllllllllllllS, lQIlCf'ZUl

One mu}; mix bhe -

1e me?aai ayimaniirls
blniued wiu'h
hythe
lli'ibsaid
(mygen-yielnh
lixiviulion
cozngioune and bl

a or during the u

:omnonents.

add the ex;

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lLlTRGZ.

For instance, one may use l

,losives an; 30-1 (illeal addiiional l

nowler n) (ly {Juanitaa gel

to, blunting (gel

' u or such like.

l. Explosives containing orxzygsrnj'ioh'ling

compounds and eyunznnid.
2. Explosives containing ammonium ni
mate

(1 eyanemid.

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3. luzplosives eoni'mnmg om'geu-yielilmg

\
eon'ineumlu,
eyzmumiil an! oxidizuble sub~

oxygen-p,

eomnoumle to other exploshes and use the e):

nlo

triuniids or the salts with ueiils or buses.

What l claim :15 my ii'ivei'lbion, :mrl (lc?ire to 95
secure by Letters Pal/(nu in

stun-sen.

4:. lllXplOSH/QH containing zunruoniuni in

hate and more cyan

ii<l than may he oxi- I05

Llized by the oxygen evolved in the explosion.

llie empioynient of the explosives; is made
in witnens whereof l have hereunto signed
in bhe usual way. The detonation is; carried. my name, this ili'th (in); of July, 1904:, in the
oufs according to the nutm'e of lzhe oxygen preseneeof two subscribing- wiLnessen.
yielaling sul... tance~for instance, by a, <lot0~
,kllUlllll FRA N K.
nutor, fuS8,-&C.
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may add lo the explosive etheroxidiw
Witnesses:

uble or C(h'llllll?tlhl organic or inc jnnie sub

siunces in order to eonirol fqlae