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20, 1951
s, GORDON ET AL
2,575,871
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STUART
Inventors
GORDON
EDWARD
WHITWORTH
Attorneys
2,575,871
UNITED 'GRANULAR
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PATENT " OFFICE
Stuart Gordon, Saltcoats, and Edward Whitworth,
West Kilbride, Scotland, assignors to Imperial
Chemical Industries Limited, a corporation of
Greatliritain
rim?re cartridges.
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Figure 1;
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radial
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slots
7 istherein;
representative
and . of a
. 'granularsmoke
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tion.
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40
parts by weight.
Table 1.
2,575,871
Table 1
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Sample
Charge
Cartridge
Gun
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slotte ).
65pts.potassiumnitrate
12 bore 2% shotgun
cartridge with 1% oz
sive base
shot load.
non->
grains
12boreshotgun.
32
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2.69
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1,085
..
_,
-
32
. 2.69
1, 084
32
2. 67
1, 080
10
2.63
996
10
2. 94
l, 006
Powder in perforated disc form.. 45 pts. potassium nitrate ._._.do ______________________ __do ..... _.
.4107 shotgun.
Powder in perforated disc form" 40 pts. potassium nitrate -.___do ...................... __do _____ ..
standard .22" rim?re ammunition, show improved 25 one of said spacesis a centrally located perfora
tion and the remaining spaces are radial slots.
ignition characteristics for porous powders in
6.. Granular smokeless propellant powders of a
perforated or slotted disc form as compared to
porous structure as set forth in claim 4 wherein
complete disc form in_ loose leed and worn ri?es
said plurality of spaces extending through its
denoted by the characteristic small difference be
tween the velocity obtained in a tight leed, rifle 30
and the velocity in a worn loose leed ri?e. These
comparative results arev not forth in Table
II.
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'STUART GORDON.
EDWARD WHIT'VVORTH.
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Table II
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Charge,
Sample
wt.
Velocity
Velocity
Velocity
grains
leed ri?e
F. s.
ri?e '
ence
F. s.
F. 6
1. 4
1, 186
1, 092
--
1. 4
1,192
1, 128
64
j 4 Do ................................. _-
1. 4
1,182
1,124
58
94
1.0
1,035
947
1.0
1,028
981
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88 -
47
1.0
1,053
974
79.
53
1. 0
1,062
1, 009
1. 0
1,046
973
73
1,046
988
58
v 1. 0
'
1. 0
1,010
947
63
1. 0
1, 028
981
47
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