This is a non-provisional application that claims priority to an international application number PCT/CN2013/072439, international filing date Mar. 12, 2013.
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Field of Invention
The present invention relates to an entertainment pyrotechnic products, and more particularly to a combination of fireworks.
Description of Related Arts
A combination of fireworks is a combination of a plurality of monocular cylinder firework. A monocular cylinder is called a shot. Conventional combination of fireworks is assembled from a plurality of paper bobbins, it has many drawbacks. The processes of the conventional fireworks are complicated, and the productivity is low, and the regulatory or the standard of the products are hard to control.
In recent years, our company had developed a product of one-time molding combined fireworks by molding the slurry as a whole piece. The shape and structure of the molded body is similar to the conventional combined fireworks, the overall appearance of the molded body shape is generally rounded prism or cylinder, etc. A plurality of parallel tubular cavities is evenly distributed on the body. The structure and the function of tubular cavity body are similar to the monocular cylinder of conventional fireworks. The upper ends of the tubular cavity bodies are open, while the lower ends of the tubular cavity bodies are closed. Firework powder and effect parts are provided inside the tubular cavity bodies. It is worth to mention that different from the conventional combined fireworks which uses side flash connected fuse structure, the new combined firework uses bottom flash connected fuse structure. The closed end of the tubular cavity bodies is provided a flash hole which penetrates the bottom of the whole body. A wiring groove connecting all fire transmission holes is provide on the bottom surface to ensure the positioning of fuse. And the fuse is embedded in the wiring groove connecting each flash hole sequentially. By igniting the fuse, the firework powder is ignited and the fireworks are launched. Refer to Chinese patent CN 101377395B, authorized date Apr. 11, 2012, entitled “Fireworks Molded Outer Tube, Shell Spherical Shell and its Production”, the production process is disclosed.
However, we found that in practice, the one-time molded combined fireworks still have some drawbacks. A phenomenon of blaze can easily emerge, that is the firework powder and effect parts in each tubular cavity bodies are not ignited and launched in accordance with predetermined ignition sequence, but the situation occurs two or more tubular cavities simultaneously launched, which leads to the firework effect are completely ruined.
One object of the present invention is to provide a molded combined firework, which can effectively prevent the occurrence of blaze, in order to achieve the designed effect of fireworks. To solve the mentioned problems, the present invention provided a molded combined firework, comprising a plurality of parallel tubular cavities evenly distributed on the body. The upper ends of the tubular cavity bodies are open while the lower ends are closed. Firework powder and effect parts are provided inside the tubular cavity bodies. A flash hole is provided on the sealed end, penetrating the bottom surface of the body. The opening of the flash hole is provided inside a wiring groove. Within the wiring groove and the bottom opening of flash hole, a truncated groove is provided between thereof. The wiring groove is sealed with glue.
Base on research, blaze phenomenon occurs for the following reasons. After the fuse is embedded within wiring groove, a gap exists between the fuse and both the side walls and bottom surface of the wiring groove. The continuous existing gap within a portion of wiring groove will lead to the occurrence of fire jump between the flash holes within the wiring groove. Due to the spread speed of high pressure combustion gases along the wiring groove is faster than that of the fuse, the gas pass through the gap and flee into the flash holes, so that the firework powder and the effect parts inside the tubular cavity bodies is disordered ignited by the gas.
Using glue to seal the wiring groove can reduce the occurrence of fire jump. The glue can be existing commercial products in current firework material market such as moisture-proof glue, etc. In order to improve the fire truncation performance of the glue, and has good flow distribution and adhesive properties. Preferably, the glue component is: in parts by weight ratio, 1 to 2 order of moisture-proof glue, 2 to 4 orders of calcium carbonate. Mixing evenly using general method.
However, due to the perfect match between the glue distribution and the gap is difficult to achieve, the gap can still be exist, especially between the fuse and bottom surface of the wiring groove. Therefore, a blocking groove is provided inside the wiring groove. The depth of the blocking groove is relatively deeper than that of wiring groove. The blocking groove is disposed between the bottom openings of the flash holes, so that the glue can easily fill the wiring groove and form a closed ring shape along the cross-sectional direction of the fuse, preventing the blaze phenomenon from occurring. In addition, paths through which burning high-pressure powder gas flows out from an ignition hole and causes accidents are blocked, the powder gas in all the tubular cavity bodies is restrained to flow out only from the upper ends of the tubular cavity bodies; therefore, the safety of products is ensured, the amount of powder is standardized, and the quality of setting off fireworks is improved.
As can be seen from the above analysis, the blocking groove may be integrally disposed (e.g. be disposed like a U-shape along the inner walls of the cross section of the wiring groove) or partially disposed (e.g. be disposed along the inner walls of the cross section of a portion of wiring groove). The length, width and depth of the blocking groove can be adjusted according to the actual situation. Considering the truncation performance and the manufacturing factors, preferably, the blocking groove is provided on the bottom surface of the wiring groove. Preferably, the width of the blocking groove is larger than the width of the wiring groove. Preferably, the blocking groove is a rectangular blind hole.
Preferably, a flash hole is provided on the closed end of the tubular cavity bodies which penetrates the bottom surface of the body. The wiring groove is a continuous integral groove; each bottom opening of the flash hole is disposed inside the integral groove. When in use, only one fuse is embedded in the wiring groove, and the requirement of flash is fulfilled. There is no need to provide an extra fuse for each of the flash hole. The fuse combusts in the wiring groove and the combustion gas spark goes into the tubular cavity bodies through the flash hole. Then, the firework powder and effect part in the tubular cavity bodies is ignited.
Since the bottom of some products are thick, making the length of the flash along the axial direction is long, the fuse combust spark cannot reach the firework powder through the flash hole, leading to the firework powder in the tubular cavity bodies cannot be ignited which seriously affect the discharge effect. In order to avoid mentioned case, preferably, the flash hole is a tapered hole. The tapered top is on the bottom of the body, and the tapered bottom is along the direction of the bottom of the tubular cavity bodies. In this case, the firework powder fills the tapered tunnel and gets closer to the fuse. Then, the fuse combustion sparks can reach the firework powder and fully ignite the powder, to ensure there is no noncombustible case.
Preferably, the corners of the continuous integral groove are arc shaped corner. This can reduce the extent the fuse folded at the corners, and prevent the fuse from wearing or broken, avoiding the fuse breakage caused product quality problems.
Preferably, two flash holes are provided on the closed end of the tubular cavity bodies which penetrates the bottom of the body. One is flash enter hole and the other is flash exit hole. The wiring groove comprises a plurality of intermittent decentralized grooves. Besides a flash enter hole connecting the fuse and a flash exit hole connecting a back-up fuse, a flash enter hole of a tubular cavity body and another flash enter hole of adjacent tubular cavity body is located within the same distributed groove. The blocking groove is provided between the two bottom openings. When in use, a plurality of fuse is provided according to the number of the distributed groove, the ends of each fuse is inserted into the flash enter hole and the flash exit hole on the wiring groove.
Preferably, the bottom surface of the body is surrounded by a protruded border. A plurality of ventilation relief slots are provided on the border. The protruded border can make the product underside off the ground, to prevent the product from getting moisture and damage. And the ventilation relief slots on one hand can make underside ventilation accelerate drying; and on the other hand if the bottom surface of firework has combustion gas leaking, the pressure can be timely released to avoid dumping and causing more accidents.
Additional advantages and features of the invention will become apparent from the description which follows, and may be realized by means of the instrumentalities and combinations particular point out in the appended claims.
Still further objects and advantages will become apparent from a consideration of the ensuing description and drawings.
These and other objectives, features, and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description, the accompanying drawings, and the appended claims.
The following description is disclosed to enable any person skilled in the art to make and use the present invention. Preferred embodiments are provided in the following description only as examples and modifications will be apparent to those skilled in the art. The general principles defined in the following description would be applied to other embodiments, alternatives, modifications, equivalents, and applications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
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In this embodiment, each of the tubular cavity bodies 2 is provided with a flash hole 5, referring to
As can be seen, the blocking groove 8 is provided between two bottom openings 6 of the flash hole 5, thus glue 9 can easily fills the wiring groove 7, forming a closed ring shape along the direction of the cross section of the fuse 10 to truncate combustion gas travelling along the gap.
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The difference between the first preferred embodiment and the second preferred embodiment is that, in this embodiment, each of the tubular cavity bodies is provided with two flash holes 105, one of them is a flash enter hole, and the other is a flash exit hole. The wiring groove 104 comprises twenty-four mutual intermittent dispersed style grooves. As can be seen from
As can be seen, the blocking groove 104 is provided between two bottom openings of the flash hole 105, thus glue can easily fills the wiring groove 103, forming a closed ring shape along the direction of the cross section of the fuse 106 to truncate combustion gas travelling along the gap.
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One skilled in the art will understand that the embodiment of the present invention as shown in the drawings and described above is exemplary only and not intended to be limiting.
It will thus be seen that the objects of the present invention have been fully and effectively accomplished. The embodiments have been shown and described for the purposes of illustrating the functional and structural principles of the present invention and is subject to change without departure from such principles. Therefore, this invention includes all modifications (e.g. the figure of main body, the design of fire transmission or the distribution of wiring groove, etc.) encompassed within the spirit and scope of the following claims.
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