Explosives . lades are made torotate in the opposite direction. The dough falls into a box or other receptacle,and is taken to the buildings where it is pressed into cords, tubes or strip,or is rolled into -licet, according to the form that it is required to give tothe finished powder. If the incorporator he driven by an electric motor, this should be placedso that vapour f the solvent cannot possibly be ignited by spark- of thecommutator. The motor should be provided with an automatic release toprevent danger of the explosive being fired by the application of too muchpower. The lid of the inc
Explosives . lades are made torotate in the opposite direction. The dough falls into a box or other receptacle,and is taken to the buildings where it is pressed into cords, tubes or strip,or is rolled into -licet, according to the form that it is required to give tothe finished powder. If the incorporator he driven by an electric motor, this should be placedso that vapour f the solvent cannot possibly be ignited by spark- of thecommutator. The motor should be provided with an automatic release toprevent danger of the explosive being fired by the application of too muchpower. The lid of the incorporator i- best made of aluminium, domed some-what so as to allow of more material being placed in the machine. The EXPLOSIVES aluminium may be surrounded by a wooden frame held down to the rim fthe incorporator by butterfly the {-|lt. dough i> next formed into the desired Bhape. Formerly it was in many cases rolled into sheets by passing it repeatedly through rolls resembling. 57. Incorporating Machine. Trough Tilted, showing Blades a paper-makers calender. The sheets were cut into strips, which were againcut transversely so as to form cubes or flakes. Now it is more usual to pressthe dough through a die in a press, which is an adaptation of the machineused for making macaroni. It i- thus obtained in the form of cud-, strips, ortubes : it desired these can then be cut into flakes of any required B. which was invented by vleille and adopted by the FrenchGovernment in 1884 for use in the Lebel rifle, was the first smokeless powderto achieve Buccess in a rilled lire-arm. It is named after the first letter inthe name of (reneral Boulanger, who was Minister of War at the time. Accord-ing to an analysis made by Lieut. Wisser, l~>.\.. it- composition was: ible oitro-celluloee .!lt-Miii 68-2 pei oent. 29-820 „ 1 Worden. Udoa Industry, \ SLOW-BURNING SMOKELESS POWDERS 295 Apparently it was gelatinized by means of acetic ether. The compositionwa
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