Rocket propellant

Claim 1

A PROPELLANT CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF (1) A COPOLYMER OF 40 TO 60 PARTS OF A POLYESTER AND 60 TO 40 PARTS OF A MONO-OLEFINIC COMPOUND SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF STYRENE, METHYL ACRYLATE, METHYL METHACRYLATE, BETA NITRO ETHYL ACRYLATE, ACRYLONITRILE, AND METHYL ACRYLONITRILE, SAID POLYESTER BEING THE CONDENSATION PRODUCT OF A MIXTURE COMPRISING DIETHYLENE GLYCOL, A SATURATED ALIPHATIC CARBOXYLIC ACID OF AT LEAST 6 CARBON ATOMS AND HAVING CARBOXY GROUPS CONNECTED BY A HYDROCARBON CHAIN, AND AN ALPHA-BETA-UNSATURATED DICARBOXYLIC ACID IN WHICH MIXTURE THE MOLAR QUANTITY OF SAID GLYCOL IS APPROXIMATELY EQUAL TO THE TOTAL MOLAR QUANTITY OF SAID ACIDS AND IN WHICH MIXTURE THE UNSATURATED ACID IS PROPORTIONED TO THE SATURED ACID SO THAT IN THE POLYESTER CHAIN THERE WILL BE BUT ONE OLEFINIC GROUP FOR EACH 40 TO 130 ATOMS IN THE POLYESTER CHAIN, SAID POLYESTER BEING FURTHER CHARACTERIZED IN THAT WHEN MIXED WITH AN EQUAL QUANTITY OF MONOMERIC STYRENE THE MIXTURE THUS FORMED HAS A VISCOSITY OF 40 TO 300 CPS 77*F. AND AN ACID NUMBER OF 4 TO 20, AND (2) AN OXIDIZING AGENT CONSISTTING ESSENTIALLY OF A MIXTURE OF AT LEAST ONE ORGANIC EXPLOSIVE SELECTED FROM THE FROUP CONSISTING OF PENTAERYTHRITOL TETRA NITRATE, CYCLOTRIMETHYLENE TRINITRO AMINE, (2,4,6) TRINITROPHENYL METHYL NITROAMINE AND DINITRO PROPANE AND AT LEAST ONE SOLID INORGANIC OXIDIZING SALT WHICH GIVES OFF OXYGEN ON HEATING, TO THE TOTAL OXIDIZING AGENT PRESENT BEING SUFFICIENT TO COMBINE WITH ONE-HALF OF THE HYDROGEN ATOMS TO FORM WATER AND TO COMBINE WITH ALL OF THE CARBON ATOMS TO FORM CARBON MONOXIDE, SAID SOLID OXIDIZING SALT BEING INTIMATELY DISPERSE THROUGH COPOLYMER.