Hybrid impulse bomb

Claim 1

A HYBRID PROPELLANT TEST SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING BIPROPELLANT INGREDIENTS, COMPRISING IN COMBINATION: A PAIR OF MATED AND PRESSURE SEALED HEADS COMPRISING A PRIMARY HEAD AND A SECONDARY HEAD, INCLUDING MEANS DEFINING THEREIN A SPHERICAL PRIMARY CHAMBER AND A VERTICALLY DISPOSED, CLOSED-END TUBULAR SECONDARY CHAMBER TERMINATING IN OPERATIVE COMMUNICATION WITH SAID PRIMARY CHAMBER THROUGH A NORMALLY OPEN PORT FORMED AT ONE END OF SAID SECONDARY CHAMBER; A SPHERICAL MEMBER FORMED OF FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL DISPOSED WITHIN SAID PRIMARY CHAMBER ADAPTED TO BE SEATED IN A CONTIGUOUS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SURFACES OF SAID PORT TO CLOSE THE PORT AND ESTABLISH A SEAL BETWEEN THE CHAMBERS, AND TO BE DISPLACED THEREFROM FOR OPENING SAID PORT; A HOUSING INCLUDING MEANS DEFINING A PAIR OF HORIZONTALLY SUPPORTED SHAFTS FIXED TO OPPOSITE SIDES THEREOF FOR ACCOMMODATING END-TO-END INVERSION OF SAID HOUSING; MEANS SECURING SAID PAIR OF HEADS TO ONE END OF SAID HOUSING WITH THE SECONDARY CHAMBER BEING DISPOSED BETWEEN THE HOUSING AND THE PRIMARY CHAMBER, WHEREBY SAID SECONDARY CHAMBER MAY BE INVERTED FROM AN UPWARDLY OPENING DISPOSITION TO A DOWNWARDLY OPENING DISPOSITION THROUGH AN INVERSION OF SAID HOUSING; AN ELECTRICAL SOURCE-CONNECTED ELECTROMAGNET FIXED WITHIN SAID HOUSING OPERATIVELY ENERGIZED THROUGH AN IMPOSED ELECTRICAL CHARGE FOR ESTABLISHING MAGNETIC FIELD HAVING A DENSITY ADJACENT SAID PORT SUFFICIENT FOR RETAINING SAID SPHERICAL MEMBER AGAINST DISPLACEMENT AND IN A SELECTED RELATIONSHIP WITH RESPECT TO THE SURFACES OF SAID PORT WHEN SAID SECONDARY CHAMBER IS IN A DOWNWARDLY OPENING DISPOSITION, AND TO BE DE-ENERGIZED FOR RELEASING SAID SPHERICAL MEMBER FOR GRAVITY INDUCED DISPLACEMENT TO THUS OPEN SAID PORT; COUPLING MEANS RELEASABLY CONNECTING SAID HEADS IN A PRESSURE SEALED AND MATED DISPOSITION, WHEREBY SAID HEADS MAY BE SEPARATED FRO ACCOMMODATING AN INSERTION OF A BIPROPELLANT INGREDIENT WITHIN SAID SECONDARY CHAMBER AND A SEALING OF THE CHAMBER BY DISPOSING THE SPHERICAL MEMBER IN A SEATED RELATIONSHIP WITH SAID PORT WHEN SAID HOUSING IS INVERTED TO DISPOSE THE SECONDARY CHAMBER IN AN UPWARDLY OPENING DISPOSITION; A LIQUID PROPELLANT INGREDIENT CHARGING SYSTEM CONNECTED WITH SAID PRIMARY CHAMBER FOR CHARGING SAID PRIMARY CHAMBER WITH A SECOND BIPROPELLANT INGREDIENT WHEN SAID ELECTROMAGNET IS ENERGIZED AND SAID SPHERICAL MEMBER IS RETAINED IN ITS SEATED DISPOSITION; ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT SWITCH, CONNECTED BETWEEN SAID ELECTROMAGNET AND SAID SOURCE, SELECTIVELY OPERABLE FOR DE-ENERGIZING SAID ELECTROMAGNET FOR THUS RELEASING SAID SPHERICAL MEMBER TO OPEN SAID PORT SO THAT PROPELLANT INGREDIENTS CONTANED IN SAID CHAMBERS MAY BE CAUSED TO CONTACT EACH OTHER FOR INITIATING AN IGNITION THEREOF; AND TRANSDUCER MEANS MOUNTED IN ONE HEAD OF SAID PAIR OF HEADS COMMUNICATING WITH SAID PRIMARY CHAMBER FOR MONITORING PRESSURES ESTABLISHED THROUGH AN INITIATED IGNITION OF SAID PROPELLANT INGREDIENTS.