Quick match

This black thread is manufactured by pasting a composition in the form of a slurry on to cotton strands. It burns slowly in the open air, but quite, quickly in a long tube with a small diameter. Unpiped quick match is often used for fire transfer in place of industrial fuse(Bickford fuse) and the paper covered fuse is used for frame-work. Various other materials are used in place of the cotton strands for cheapness. Black powder is popularly used, but chlorate composition is also used in Japan to obtain quicker fire transfer, but this is not to be recommended. 

There are also other items for special use, which are made with other compositions which contain various binders and wire. 

The manufacturing process for quick match is as follows Dissolve 3 parts by weight of gum arabic in 40 parts by weight of hot water. 

The reason why gum arabic is used as binder, lies in the fact that the match dries relatively quickly and becomes quite stiff and easily handled, 

Lastly the end of the cotton is fixed to a wooden frame. Pour a quantity of the gum arabic solution into the inner vessel and add black powder to the solution, stirring it until it produces a good slurry. Revolve the frame round its axis slowly, and the strands will be pasted with the slurry as they are pulled through it. Excess slurry pasted on the strands is removed by the funnel-like outlet which returns it to the inner vessel again. 

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Instantaneous fuse was made by wrapping several strands of quick match in waterproof tape. The fuse was fired by means of a percussion cap in a special pistol... 

Type 98 No 7 Mk 6 Model 1 Bomb contd four Thermite-filled electron fire pots. A central channel filled with quick match ran thru the length of the bomb. A BkPdr chge was located in the circular recess of the nose piece (pp 71—72) Type 98 No 7 Mk Model 2 Bomb contd a central Thermite core surrounded by a solidified kerosene, petrol, alcohol, soap mixture. A BkPdr burster chge was located in the nose. A copper tube contg quickmatch was located inside Thermite tube (pp 73—4) ... 

Display Rocket. It is a rocket used for pyrotechnic display. It may be constructed using a cardboard case with a chamber in the forward end separated by a plug of clay or other material thru which a piece of quick match passes. The chamber is filled with black powder, and colored light compositions shaped in the form of stars, primed with mealed powder. The tail end of the rocket contains a propellant and a guiding stick. When the rocket is shot into the air. and teaches its maximum height, flame from the propellant is conveyed by quick match to the forward section, igniting... 

Note It may be possible to form rapidburning materials suitable for propellants, fuses, quick matches, etc by combining aminated cellulose with an oxidizer, eg, aminocellulose nitrate or perchlorate (See also Aminoethylcellulose)... 

Bengal flame saltpeter 16 parts, sulfur 4, and antimony (sulfide) 2 parts. This mixture was to be lighted by quick-match and burned in small earthenware pots for general illumination.8... 

Feuerwerkszundschnure = pyrotechnical fuses (-1- also quick-match) 271... 

Stirnabbrand = face burning 58 140 Stoppine = quick-match cambric 272 storage of explosives 138 139 299 Stoftgriffmaschinen = blasting machines wiht impact knob 37 Stofttrankungssprengen = pulsed infusion shotfiring 270 StoR>welle = shock wave 80 straight dynamites 27 strands 66... 

Burning time is preset at between 30 to 100 s/m. A Quick match contained in paper tubes, is preset to a maximum of 40 m/s to avoid failure to ignition. 

Lances,—1. Lances are small paper cases, two to four in. in diameter, filled with composition, and are used to mark the outlines of figures. They are attached endwise to light wooden frames or sticks of bamboo and connected by streamers or quick match. The following are some of the compositions used in these ... 

Quick Match,—Make a thick paste of gunpowder and hot water, with a small quantity of gum in it. Take shout four strands of oot-... 

Roman candles are usually made from three-eighths to six-eighths, but five-eighths is a very satisfactory size. If a Homan candle is intended to be fired singly, twist n piece of touch paper round +he mouth. If the cases are intended to be fired in threes, fours, etc., to form a bouquet, or to be placed round a mine, jack-in-the-box, or deviWuoong-the-tailors, omit the touchpaper and envelop tho case in double crown, made to project an inch beyond the mouth, to receive tho leader or quick-match. 

Streamer. —Streamers or quick matches, used for communicating fire quickly from one tube to another in display pieces, are composed of the following composition packed in slender continuous paper tubes ... 

To Make Quick Match. Quick match is made by immersing lamp-wick in a solution of saltpetre with meal powder, winding it on a frame, and afterwards dusting with meal powder. To 28 ounces cotton, take saltpetre, I pound alcohol, 2 quarts water, 3 quarts solution of isinglass (1 ounce to the... 

Colored Fires for Indoors.. 2119. 4c. iron Sand for Fireworks.2105 Quick Match.2060... 

Quick Matches are made of 4 parts of saltpetre, 2 of gunpowder, 2 of charcoal, and 1 of sulphur. Quick matches made of this composition never miss fire and are not extinguished by rain or wind. 

Method of Blasting under Water with Compressed Gun-cotton. In the accompanying illustration, Fig. 60, aa represent layers of gun-cotton, b the cartridge of compressed gun-cotton, and d the quick match... 

Generally the quick match burns with a crunching sound because pressure increase by the.combustion gas causes the paper tube to burst. The stronger the tube is, the larger the surface velocity becomes. If a metal tube is used in place of the paper one the surface velocity becomes tremendously high. ... 

Sometimes we see the sparkling of a fire ball caused by burnt quick match. When shells are fired one by one in the same mortar, sometimes an unexpected explosion occurs when a lifting charge is loaded into the mortar. This may be caused by the remaining fire in the mortar which is activated a little v/hile by the Senko-PIanabi reaction. Accordingly, we must scrub the inside of the mortar and check it before loading to see if the fire spot remains in it or not ... 

The process for manufacturing matches, quick-match, Senko-Hanabi, sparklers or searchlights, which utilize relatively insensitive compositions dipping them on to sticks, string or pieces of paper, may be described as a wet process, but the purpose lies not so much in safe mixing, but rather in the manner in which the composition is held, and in this case the wet process is not always necessary for the mixing of the component materials. 

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