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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 03, 1986
Stephen W Bartholomew, Granby, CT (US);
Daniel C Rontey, Lebanon, NJ (US);
William J Necker, Collinsville, CT (US);
Clifford N Kaiser, Granby, CT (US);
The Ensign-Bickford Company, Simsbury, CT (US);
Abstract
A combination signal transmission tube connector and delay assembly having a housing; means on the housing for engaging at least one signal transmission tube; means on the housing for cutting the transmission tube to expose at least two transmission tube interior portions; a signal delay assembly mounted in the housing for interposition between exposed transmission tube interior portions; and means on the housing for establishing a signal path permitting signal communication between the delay assembly and exposed transmission tube interior portions. The delay assembly preferably has a delay element containing a shaped composition having a preselected combustion time from one side of said element to another side of said element; and at least two transition elements adjacent to the delay element for transferring a signal between the delay element and exposed transmission tube interior portions, each of the transition elements containing a shaped transition composition.