Process for manufacturing thickened combustible mixtures

Claim 1

A PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF A HOMOGENEOUS AND STABLE COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURE, READY TO USE, NON-HYDROSCOPIC, OF LOW AS CONTENT AND OF IMPROVED BURNING TIME, WHICH COMPRISES GRINGING INTO A DISINTERGRATED POLYISOBUTYLENE COMPOUND HAVING A MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF 50,000 TO 250,000 FIVE TO 50 PERCENT BY WEIGHT OF AN ANTITACK AGENT SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF METAL SALTS OF FATTY ACIDS, METAL SALTS OF NAPHTHENIC ACIDS, POWDERED NAPHTHALENE, STEARINE, PARAFFIN WAX, POWDERED SILICA, POWDERED MAGNESIA, AND MIXTURES THEREOF; GELLING A LIQUID HYDROCARBON FUEL BY STIRRING UP TO 15 PERCENT BY WEIGHT OF THE MIXTURE THUS OBTAINED INTO SAID HYDROCARBON FOR 30 TO 60 MINUTES AT ROOM TEMPERATURE; AND GRINDING INTO THE COMBUSTIBLE THEREBY OBTAINED A XANTHATE SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF ISOAMYL XANTHATE, LAURYL XANTHATE, OCTYL XANTHATE, OLEYL XANTHATE, TETRAHYDROFURFURYL XANTHATE, AND A MIXTURE OF THESE XANTHATES, SAID XANTHATE AMOUNTING TO UP TO SUBSTANTIALLY 20 PERCENT BY WEIGHT OF SAID COMBUSTIBLE.