Angle shot mortar test

Fig. 137. Diagram of angle-shot mortar test at Dortmund-Deme, according to...

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The classical method of firing explosives in a testing gallery with the charge inside the mortar does not present a true picture of the safety of explosives towards coal-dust since the explosives commonly used fail to ignite coal-dust under such conditions. The angle shot mortar (Fig. 138) is therefore sometimes used as an unofficial auxiliary test. 

Class II safety explosives must fulfil new conditions when tested in an angle-shot mortar 350 g of explosive fired in this mortar at a distance of 65 cm from the wall and at an angle of 40° must not ignite a 9% methane-air mixture. The charge is increased by increments of 25 g. The charge limit should not give an ignition in any of five consecutive shots. 

A specially dangerous condition can arise when several shots are fired in one round by means of electric delay detonators. A preceding shot may then break the coal of another hole or even cut off the whole burden of the charge in question so that it is partly or completely exposed. This condition is simulated in the angle-mortar test. 

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