Abstract: Containment vessels including external aircraft fuel tanks having an internal plastic liner compatible with the substance to be stored in the vessel or tank. The plastic liner is manufactured from a cold formable thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer material that can be formed to the desired material configuration of the vessel. In a fuel tank the annular structural elements of the tank can be smoothly enveloped to provide a seamless, fluid tight liner having superior physical and chemical properties.A method of cold forming the plastic liner from a tubular element to achieve a seamless liner for a containment vessel is disclosed.

Abstract: It has been difficult to provide adaquate lubrication for load bearing, engine components when such engines are operating in excess of about 475.degree. C. The present invention is a process for providing a solid lubricant on a load bearing, solid surface (14), such as in an engine (10) being operated at temperatures in excess of about 475.degree. C. The process comprises contacting and maintaining steps. A gas phase (42) is provided which includes at least one component reactable in a temperature dependent reaction to form a solid lubricant. The gas phase is contacted with the load bearing surface. The load bearing surface is maintained at a temperature which causes reaction of the gas phase component and the formation of the solid lubricant. The solid lubricant is formed directly on the load bearing surface. The method is particularly suitable for use with ceramic engines.

Abstract: The pesticide 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-benzodioxol-4-yl N-methylcarbamate has been found to be capable of existence in several crystalline forms, which can be identified by their infra red spectra. The form commercially available has been form B but the new form A is superior.

Abstract: The pesticide 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-benzodioxol-4-yl N-methylcarbamate has been found to be capable of existence in several crystalline forms, which can be identified by their infra red spectra. The form commercially available has been form B but the new form A is superior.

Abstract: A device is provided for creating recesses for road surface markers in road surfaces which makes initially a cut sufficient to stabilize the device in the desired position and then fragments and discharges core material within a circular cut defining the recess. Such fragmentation is effected by rotation of a plurality of radially disposed cutting edges each spanning only a portion of the radius of the material to be fragmented.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for stripping a flash from a blow moulded hollow container in which the container is located at a stripping station with its flash projecting in a predetermined direction and in which a powered stripping tool is driven along a line parallel with, but spaced from, the jointline from which the flash is projecting such that the flash is progressively stripped away from the container along the jointline.

Abstract: A portable, power-operated sabre saw having a power driven saw blade holder which is curved and which is mounted in the sabre saw housing for reciprocation along a curved path that is determined by its curvature to impart to a blade carried thereby a component of cutting stroke travel that is in the direction in which the blade is urged against a workpiece to cut the workpiece. Another feature disclosed herein is a counterweight which dynamically counterbalances the mass of the saw blade holder and the saw blade and which is recessed to receive a power driven gear that supplies the motion for reciprocating the holder and the counterweight. The counterweight is confined between and guided for reciprocating motion by opposed side wall regions of a longitudinally split housing, and a guide pin, which is trapped between the halves of the split housing, extends through a slot in one end of the counterweight to provide a further guide for the counterweight.

Abstract: A portable, power-operated sabre saw having a power driven saw blade holder which is curved and which is mounted in the sabre saw housing for reciprocation along a curved path that is determined by its curvature to impart to a blade carried thereby a component of cutting stroke travel that is in the direction in which the blade is urged against a workpiece to cut the workpiece. Another feature disclosed herein is a counterweight which dynamically counterbalances the mass of the saw blade holder and the saw blade and which is recessed to receive a power driven gear that supplies the motion for reciprocating the holder and the counterweight. The counterweight is confined between and guided for reciprocating motion by opposed side wall regions of a longitudinally split housing, and a guide pin, which is trapped between the halves of the split housing, extends through a slot in one end of the counterweight to provide a further guide for the counterweight.