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UNITED STATES PATE T OFFICE.

SILAS R. DIVINE, OF LOOH SHELDRAKE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE BEND ROCKPOIVDER COMPANY, OF NE\V JERSEY.

COMPOSITION FOR PREPARING EXPLOSIVE COMPOUNDS.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatenfNo. 289,765, dated December 4,1883.

Application filed August 7,1883. (no specimens.)

To all whom'it may concern Be it known that I, SILAS 1t. DIVINE. of Loch Sheldrake, Sullivan county, Stat-e of-New York, and a citizenof the United States, have invented an Improved Composition of Matter for Use in Preparing Explosive Compounds, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

The object of my present invention is to fa- IO eilitate the'explosion by the use of so] hur of an explosive. compound composed of two ingredients, the one a solidsor powderecLc 1 aliquid-sueh as dea -01 such as crushed "'::and the other .-.-wiI1- ich ingredisorb the liquid, and to efl'ect the incorporation of the sulphur with the massof the combined ingredients at the same time that the uniting of the said ingredients in their exact proper relative proportions in the explosive is accomplished, and wholly without the exercise of skill on thepa'rt of theworkman performing the act.

My invention consists in a composition of 2 5 matter not in itself explosive, which is a fluid mixture composed of the liquid ingredient of the explosive'such as dead oil-and a volatile fluid-such as bisulphide of carbon-and sulphur, in a finely-powdered state, dissolved 0 in said volatile fluid. v

' In composingmy mixture I" take the quantity of the liquid' ingredient of the explosive, 'whichis the proper proportion thereof relatively to the solid ingredient, and which, in

5 thecase of dead-oil, islabout one part thereof to seven and oneehalf parts of chlorate of potash, and to this I add such a quantity of the bisulphide of carbon' or other volatile fluid in which the sulphur has been dissolved as will 0 make a fluid-volume equal to the total fluidabsorbing'capacity of the solid ingredient of the, compound; and as the total fluid-absorbing capacity of the chlorate of potash is about double the volume of the quantity of dead-oil 5 which constitutes the proper relative proporin the bisulphide of carbon, and the desirable 5o proportion of sulphur is from about one to three per cent. thereof relatively to the mass of the combined. solid and liquid ingredients of the explosive.

It is evident that other fluid hydrocarbons which are practically non-volatile in a free state at ordinary temperatures or nitro'compounds-such as nitro-benzglemay be enh ployed, wholly or inpart, as constituentsot. my mixture, when their use as the liquidii 6o gredient of the explosive is desired; and also that other volatile fluids in which sulphur will I dissolve than bisulphide of carbon may be employed in themixture. o

It is my purpose and 'ntention to make this mixture of the liquid ingredient of the explosive-[such as dead-oil-and the volatile fluid and sulphur in solution, and to put up the same in vessels or cans suitable for transpor tation,- and to supply it in this way to the consumer. Its use by the consumer is intended to do away with the necessity for the employ-' ment of skilled labor in effecting the final combining of the ingredients of the explosive.

The workman simply soaks the solid ingrediv ent-"-such as.chlorate of potash-4n this mix-w ture until saturation is efi'eetcd, and then lays the saturated mass in the open air or other convenient place for a short time, whenthe volatile fluid evaporates and escapes, leaving the sulphur incorporated with the wet or moist mass of thecombined chlorate of potash and dead-oil at the same time that'the exact proper proportions in the compound nf said solid-and I liquid ingredients are secured. 'Anexplosiveis v 7 thus constituted which may} be used in blastv ing loose or. rotten rocklorshale orjearthfii The'explosivegi pmpound thusproduced'and I the process by; which the exact proportionsoffify the'ingredients of the compound are at all times-.securedl have made subjects of sepa tr rate applications for Letters Patent; and hence I do not claim them here, but limit my claim hereunder to the described composition of matter, which is a mixture in the proportions in- "dicated of the liquid ingredient of the explosivesuch as dead-oila-volatile fluidsuch as bisulphide of carbon-and sulphur in solution in the latter, for the specific purpose set forth. I

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- 5 The composition of matter herein described, which consists in a fluid mixture of the liquid ingredient of the explosive-as degckoil-the volatile fluidas bisulphide of carbon-and sul )hur in solution in the latter, substantially in the proportions and as and for the purpose r0 specified.

SILAS R. DIVINE.

Y-Vitnesses:

A. S. FITCH, A. G. N. VERMILYA.