Patents by Inventor Sydney Axelrod

Sydney Axelrod has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Wear reducer
    Patent number: 4395934
    Abstract: An improved ammunition propellant composition and method for reducing gun mber wear, erosion, flash and cook-off through use of an additive comprising a mixture of a super water absorbent starch modified polyacrylonitrile which has been subjected to alkaline saponification and water. The wear reducing additive is preferably formed into sheets which can be used with propellants selected from the group consisting of bagged propelling charges and cartridge cased propellants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1983
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Sydney Axelrod, Walter Brenner, Barry A. Rugg
  • Wear reducer
    Patent number: 4334477
    Abstract: An improved ammunition propellant composition and method for reducing gun member wear, erosion, flash and cook-off through use of an additive comprising a mixture of a super water absorbent starch modified polyacrylonitrile which has been subjected to alkaline saponification and water. The wear reducing additive is preferably formed into sheets which can be used with propellants selected from the group consisting of bagged propelling charges and cartridge cased propellants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1982
    Inventors: Sydney Axelrod, Walter Brenner, Barry A. Rugg