Process for the manufacture of globular nitrocellulose

Claim 1

IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOLIDIFIED GLOBULES HAVING A DIAMETER OF 0.001 INCH OR LESS FROM A LACQUER WHOSE BASE MATERIAL IS NITROCELLULOSE, THE PROCESS COMPRISING PREPARING A LACQUER CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF 1 PART OF NITROCELLULOSE AND APPROCIMATELY 10 PARTSD OF A WATER-IMMISCIBLE SOLVENT THEREFOR, AGITATING SAID LACQUER WITH WATER CONTAINING A HYDROPHOBIC SURFACE ACTIVE AGENT UNTIL ANAMOUNT OF WATER AT LEAST EQUAL TO THE WEIGHT OF THE LACQUER IS EMULSIFIED INTO SAID LAQUER AS THE INTERNAL PHASE THEREOD SUBDIVING SAID EMULSION INTO FINE GLOBLUBLES AND SUSPENDING SAID GLOBLUES IN AN AQUEOUS BATH BY VIGOROUS AGITATION AND WHILE SO SUSPENDED: ADDING A WATER-SOLUBLE SOLUTE IMMISCIBLE WITH THE LACQUER TO THE BATH, MAINTAINING THE GLOBLUSE IN SUSPENSION UNTIL SUBSTANTIUALLY ALL OF THE WATER IS REMOVED THEREFROM SO AS TO SHRINK SAID GLOBULES, AND THEN FURTHER SHRINKING THE GLOBLUES BY REMOVING SOLVENT THEREFROM.