Patent ID: 7752974

Claim:
An apparatus for use in launching an inhibiting powder, the apparatus comprising: a source of impulse pressure that induces a propellant pressure in gas form; the source of impulse pressure comprising a cartridge; a frame housing the source of impulse pressure; a barrel stationarily secured to the frame and cooperated with the source of impulse pressure to receive the propellant pressure; inhibiting powder positioned within the barrel; a burst diaphragm secured between the source of the impulse pressure and the inhibiting powder; an actuator that activates the source of impulse pressure to deliver the gas to the burst diaphragm; and a driver having a first arm and a second arm articulated one to the other at a joint, the joint being disposed adjacent to the cartridge, the actuator causing a lateral translation of the joint toward the cartridge that moves the cartridge toward a puncture member, where a bursting of the burst diaphragm results in a release of the propellant into the barrel to drive the inhibiting powder from the barrel in substantially an aerosol form generating a cloud of the inhibiting powder extending from an exit end of the barrel and out a distance from the exit end of the barrel.