US Government As Represented by the Secretary of the Army

Exxonmobil Chemical Patents Inc.

Chong Peng

Viral Panchal

Thomas Redden Veariel

Costas George Gogos

Ming-Wan Young

Mohamed Elalem

Linjie Zhu

Fei Shen

Yuet Meng Chu

Philip Abbate

Gregory C Burke

Steve Kotefski

Dale Conti

Vincent Gonsalves

Matthew P Evangelisti

Nikola Kotefski

Tianyi Huang

John W Grassia

Gogos G Costas

Embodiments of an invention disclosed herein relate to devices, processes, and systems for processing one or more polymers.

Devices, systems, and processes for processing polymers

The present invention is directed to a process for making combustible foam celluloid munition parts having high aspect ratios, different densities or having an insert embedded into the foam celluloid munition part. The process for making such foam celluloid munition part requires pre-soaking dry particles of celluloid, placing the celluloid particles into a munition part mold, exposing the celluloid particles to high heat and pressure until the celluloid particles expand and fuse into the shape of the mold. Varying the density or the size of the celluloid particles used in the process produces munition parts having different densities. In addition, the placement of inserts into the particles prior to exposure to high heat and pressure produces munition parts having inserts that are useful for identification and tracking of such parts.

Process for preparing foam celluloid parts

Embodiments of an invention disclosed herein relate to devices, processes, and systems for processing polymers.

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.

Foamed celluloid delay fuze

A modular artillery charge system module includes a central igniter container and cap end and body end igniter containers fixed to the central igniter container. The central igniter container is a rigid, longitudinal tube with opposing ends. The end igniter containers are fixed to the opposing ends of the central igniter container. Each end igniter container includes a large container portion and a small container portion that extends from the large container portion toward the central igniter container. The central igniter container and end igniter containers are made of a rigid material, such as foamed celluloid.

Igniter for modular artillery charge system

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Mason, OH, United States of America

Chong Peng