Abstract: Ammunition for an electronically activated simulated firearm includes a combustible powder contained in a plastic casing having electrically conductive pins which mount in a barrel portion of the firearm. The powder charge is less than 2 grains of an oxidizer, a fuel, and a color enhancer to provide the smoke and flash of a real weapon without producing any significant noise or creating danger.

Abstract: A simulated firearm useful in the entertainment industry, and particularly moviemaking, includes electronically ignitable loads which fire sequentially producing a flash and smoke from the barrel. The loads are mounted in a socket in a forward part of the gun, and consist of a small amount of gunpowder and flash-producing material retained in a tubular sleeve along with a resistance-wire igniter. The electronic firing mechanism is actuated by a trigger microswitch which sends amplified pulses in sequence to the loads. Simulated bullet impacts can be actuated simultaneously by pulses generated by the firearm circuitry or from a remote source which actuates both the firearm and the bullet impacts.

Abstract: A portable smoke-generating apparatus particularly useful for creating special effects in the film-making and entertainment industry has a vaporizing unit consisting of a solid metallic block having an elongate interior vaporizing chamber. A solid metallic vaporizing member having a cross-sectional configuration corresponding to the cross-sectional configuration of the vaporizing chamber is loosely mounted in the chamber. The passageway between the interior walls of the vaporizing chamber and the exterior walls of the vaporizing element provides a very narrow conduit having a very very high surface area/volume ratio of at least 500, and preferably at least 1,000, to ensure rapid complete vaporization of the liquid and production of a white, dry smoke having a very small particle size. Heat is supplied to the vaporizing chamber by either electrical resistance heaters or a combustions torch mounted in one or more designated chambers in the block. Use of a nozzle having an orifice with a diameter of 0.35-0.