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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 1987
Filed:
Mar. 09, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Fortunato Villamagna, St. Leonard, CA;
Howard A Bampfield, Otterburn Park, CA;
Assignee:
C-I-L Inc., North York, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C06B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
149-2 ; 149 21 ; 149 41 ; 149 43 ; 149 44 ; 149 60 ; 149 61 ; 1491096 ;
Abstract
A packaged booster charge is provided which is sensitive to initiation by blasting cap yet which contains no self-explosive ingredient. The composition of the booster comprises a low melting point nitrate salt or salt mixture having dissolved or finely dispersed therein an acetylenic substance and void containing material. The booster is safe and economic to manufacture and sufficiently powerful to initiate insensitive blasting agents.