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Trip flare with flash bang

US9574857B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateDec 28, 2015
Grant dateFeb 21, 2017
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Expiry dateDec 28, 2035

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF42C7/02
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A trip flare with flash bang has a body having a sidewall and a hollow interior, a lid releasably attached to the body, the lid including a fuse, the interior of the body containing an illuminant composition in communication with the fuse, and a flash bang charge composition in communication with the fuse and attached to the lid by an elongated flexible tether. The tether may be a coil when received within the interior of the body. There may be an ignition composition proximate the illuminant composition such that combustion of the ignition composition ignites the illuminant composition. The flash bang charge composition may have a pyrotechnic fuse proximate the ignition composition such that combustion of the ignition composition ignites the pyrotechnic fuse. There may be a first fire composition proximate the ignition composition such that combustion of the first fire composition ignites the ignition composition.

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