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.NITED STATES " ATENT Frrc.

.BRUNQ THIl-llYlE, OF SIEGBURG, GERMANY.

I *eRooEss OF MAKING NITROPENTAERYTHIRIT.


erncmroa'rron forming part of Letters Patent Ito-541,899, dated. July 2,1895. '
Application ?led November 13, l894. Serial No. 528,594.. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern. removed from the liquid, washed with water
Be it known that I, BRUNO TEIEME, a sub and ?nally freed from the last traces of acid
ject of the King of Prussia, German Emperor, by washing in. a Weak solution of soda or
residing at Siegburg, near Cologne, in the equivalent and suitable alkali. It is then re
Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, have duced to'powder while still wet and the wet
invented a Method of Producing Nitropen powder is dried. '
taerythrit, of which the following is a speci? The nitropentaerythrit may be used alone '
cation. ~ -
as a. smokeless powder when pressed and 50
\ v

This invention consists in a method by granulated, or it may be mixed with nitro


IO which a substance termed nitropentaerythrit cellulose in the form of ?ne powder and well
suitable for use as a smokeless explosive or -mingled with, addition of a suitable solvent
as an ingredient in the manufacture of ex or vehicle such as acetone, acetic other, other
plosives maybe produced. ' alcohol, nitrohydrocarbon, nitroglycerin, cam-v 55
I take the known product of the condensa phor or the like, and gelatinized in a knead
' tion of acetaldehyde and formaldehyde in the ing mill, whence it may be either rolled out on
presence of lime, such product being known pressed through holes and cut up, dried, and,
_ as pentaerythrit and having a varying melt if the solvent is one. that volatilizes, it may
ing point between 190 and 260 centigrade, be removed by washing with water or alcohol 6-0
This compound which is a quadruple alcohol or other liquid. Theproduct is ?nished in
represented bythe formula O(CH2OH),is pro theThe
usual way.
nitropentaerythritthusproducedhas >
duced according to the following equation:
the quality that on heating it in a ?ame it
will melt and then burn quietly away. To 65
and in practice it is produced by the contact this quality may be ascribed the equable~com
bustion that may be attained when this mate
25 of acetaldehyde, formaldehyde and water in rial is added to other explosives.
the presence of lime until all reaction has
3 ceased as shown by loss of action with Fehl I claim as my invention- -
ings test. The liquid is then run off from The method of producing a compound for
the lime, oxalic acid added to remove the lime use as or as an ingredient in- explosives,
termed nitropentaerythrihby treatment of.
3.0 in solution and the solution after ?ltration the pentaerythrit produced by condensation
evaporated to a sirup and allowed to crystal
lize. The pentaerythrit thus produced is re in vthe presence of lime of acetaldehyde and
duced to the ?nest powder and treated with. formaldehyde, with concentrated nitric and 75
concentrated nitric and sulfuric acids, by sulfuric acids. N .

placing it in a mixture of these acids or by In testimony whereof I have signed this


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dissolving it in concentrated nitric acid and speci?cation in the presence of two s'ubscrib- -
adding thereto concentrated sulfuric acid. ing witnesses.
This reaction is represented by the following . BRUNO 'rnIEME.
equation : v .
Witnesses: -
PAUL KAMMERER,
The crystalline product which separates is Fnrrz SoHRoDER.

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