Fuses, Bickford cordeau

Testing Detonating Fuse, also known as Cordeau Bickford,... 

Its vel of deton was 5110 m/sec. This type of Cordeau was introduced in US by 1913 by the Ensign-Bickford Co, Simsbury, Conn (Refs 1, 3,5,7a, 10 14). See also Cordeau Bickford under Bickford Fuse or Miner s Safety Fuse,... 

Cordeau Bickford, See under Bickford Fuse or Miner s Safety Fuse, Vol 2, p B112 of this Encyl. 

Cordeau Maissin.Maissin, in 1888, patented in France the use of granulated NC as a core of flexible detonating cord (cordeau detonant souple in Fr ),which was prepd in the same manner as the safety fuse of Bickford (See Vol 2, p B112-L of this Encycl). This cord was examined by CSE (Commission des Substances Explosives) and found to be satisfactory from the point of view of performance (Ref 2) (See also Refs 3 5)... 

Detonating Fuses. See under Cord Detonating Cordeau Fuse or Detonating Fuse in Vol 3, p C 529 R. See also "Primacords Bickford and "Detacord in Blasters Hdb (1958), pp 110-116 and "Primacord Bickford and DuPont "Prima-cord in Blasters Hdb (1966), 101-106... 

Detonating fuse is called cordeau detonant in the French language, and cordeau has become the common American designation for it. Cordeau has been made from lead tubes filled with trinitrotoluene, from aluminum or block tin tubes filled with picric acid, and from tubes of woven fabric filled with nitrocellulose or with pentaerythrite tetranitrate (PETN). In this country the Ensign-Bickford Company, at Simsbury, Connecticut, manufac-... 

Mechas (Fuses). They can be subdivided into Mecka lento o ordtnaria (slow or Bickford Fuse) and Media rapida, Mecka instantanea o deto-nante (rapid fuse, Cordeau or detonating fuse) A general description of Bickford Fuse, also known as Miner s or Safety Fuse is given in Vol 2 of Encycl, B112-L R. Spanish Slow Fuse consists of a BlkPdr core, surrounded by... 

See Pentaerythxitol Tetranitrate, Cordeau Bickford, Bickford Fuse. 

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