GB869261A - Improvements in or relating to flame-throwers - Google Patents

Abstract

869,261. Flame-throwers. MAUSER-WERKE A. G. March 17, 1958 [March 16, 1957], No. 8500/58. Class 119. A flame thrower for providing a single burst comprises a cylindrical container 10 Fig. 1 for the liquid charge 18 which is ejected through a nozzle 11a by a piston 19 actuated by a propellent charge 21 in the base of the container. The charge 21 is ignited by a striker pin (not shown) actuated, by a firing knob 15 and engaging a priming charge 22 in a tube 16 having firing passages 16c. The tube 16 extends through the container 10 to an apertured support plate 17 and conveys a jet of flame to a point near the nozzle 11a to ignite the liquid charge. A safety cap 13 is removed from the nozzle before firing and the closure plug 12 is ejected by the fluid. In a modification a separate priming charge 106, Fig. 5 for igniting the fluid is formed as a closure plug in the nozzle 11a and is set off by a separate striker pin 104 which is actuated through a plunger 101 and rod 103 by the explosion of the propellent charge 102. The plunger 101 slides within a cylinder 100 containing the propellent charge and opens ports 100a which allow the escape of propellent gas to the piston 19. In a further modification the igniting cartridge is inserted in the forward end of the tube 16 behind a plug in the nozzle.