Patent ID: 7325495

Claim:
A hot gas deployment device for safely discharging a hot tear-gas grenade, the device comprising: a housing defining an internal chamber for axially receiving a tear-gas canister, the chamber being open at one end and generally closed at its second end, the housing further formed with a handle for grasping the hot gas deployment device during deployment and securing means for generally holding the tear-gas canister in position within the chamber during the deployment of the tear-gas grenade, wherein the handle is a hollow stick-handle which is formed on the closed end of the housing and comprising a barrier penetration means and an orifice for releasing the tear-gas inside the barricaded space, the housing further comprising a tear-gas release orifice in the housing for releasing the tear-gas from within the chamber to the external environment of the chamber, the housing further comprising a tear-gas pressure relief means for releasing the tear-gas from the internal chamber if excessive gas pressure builds up in the internal chamber, wherein the tear-gas pressure relief means is a pressure-distensible flexible sleeve, the flexible sleeve being sleeved over the external surface of the housing to cover the tear-gas release orifice on the housing.