Propellent charge powder for barrel-type weapons

US6309484A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Diehl Stiftung & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Walter Langlotz · Henfenfeld, DE
• Dietmar Muller · Fürstenfeldbruck, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 30, 1999
• Grant date: Oct 30, 2001
• Expiry date: Jul 30, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C06B45/105
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A propellent charge powder for barrel-type weapons having a plasticizer on the basis of nitramine and nitrocellulose, nitramine and energetic and non-energetic plastic binders, or nitrocellulose or an explosive, and wherein the plasticizer is a mixture of at least two chemically different dinitro diaza compounds. The plasticizer facilitates the production and use of the propellent charge powder possessing a low temperature coefficient.