Patent ID: 7845280

Claim:
A device for creating a diversion, comprising: a housing elongated along a first axis, comprising: first and second ends orthogonal to the first axis and having a width W and height H; first and second primary sides, each primary side having a length L and a width W and being substantially parallel to the first axis and orthogonal to the first and second ends, the first and second primary sides extending from the first end to the second end; first and second secondary sides, each secondary side having a length L and a height H and being substantially parallel to the first axis and orthogonal to the first and second ends and to the first and second primary sides, the first and second primary sides extending from the first end to the second end; whereby L, W and H are selected such that when the device is thrown or dropped, the device will come to rest only on the first primary side or the second primary side; the first primary side having a first circular dispersion port formed therethrough proximate to the first end, centered on a second axis orthogonal to the first axis, and parallel to the first and second primary sides; the second primary side having a second circular dispersion port formed therethrough at the first end and aligned with the first dispersion port; and means within the housing for blocking the first dispersion port if the device comes to rest on the first primary surface and for blocking the second dispersion port if the device comes to rest on the second primary surface; and a firing mechanism within the housing and operable to discharge an ignitable composition out of a removable cartridge within the housing and through the first dispersion port when the device rests on the second primary side and through the second dispersion port when the device rests on the first primary side, whereupon the composition forms a cloud above the device and may be ignited.