Abstract: A minimum hazard visual screening cloud-forming product is made by forming slurry of fine spheres of titanium dioxide composition, of submicron diameter, together with a volatile surface-wetting agent liquid, in the form of a liquid hydrocarbon, extruding and severing the extended slurry mass into a desired container shape, in particular, a hollow cylindrical shape, and drying the mass. An HE explosive mass is inserted into the resulting compacted hollow cylinder, enabling bursting of the compacted mass.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 1, 1989
Date of Patent:
May 1, 1990
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
Inventors:
William G. Rouse, Ronald E. Rhea, Michael J. Burnham, Connie S. Kilgore, John P. Fiala, Lisa A. Bray