Storage module for explosives

Details Storage module for explosives Storage module for explosives

1992-04-30

1993-09-28

Shoap, Allan N.

Receptacles

Closures

Having means for securing or retaining closure in its closed...

220325, 220203, 220208, 220366, 220 892, 206 3, B65D 2514, B65D 4500, B65D 5116, F42B 3920

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ABSTRACT:
A storage container or module for explosives is described comprising a cylindrical storage body, a cover, and yieldable means which retain the cover to the storage body while permitting the formation of a passage between the storage body and the cover to vent gases during a detonation within the container. In a preferred embodiment, the storage module is sized to permit storage of up to about 6 pounds of explosives without causing a sympathetic detonation in an adjoining module. The storage container is capable of quickly venting gases produced by a detonation due to the combination of a plurality of peripheral latching means spaced around an open end of the cylindrical storage body to engage both the body and a cover member, threads on a central shaft in the storage body which extends through an opening in the cover member to permit engagement of the threaded shaft with an internally threaded handwheel located on the outside of the cover member to centrally urge the cover member against the cylindrical storage body, and one or more O-ring seals between the cylindrical body and the removable cover member. This yieldable combination of peripheral and central closing and latching mechanisms, together with the O-ring seals, permits the cover and cylindrical body of the storage container to sufficiently separate during a detonation to form a passage through which gases within the container may be rapidly vented to prevent a build-up of excessive pressure in the container.

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