Abstract: A method of jointing textile belting or webbing using a polyurethane compound, the method comprising coating two ends of the belting or webbing to be joined with a castable liquid mixture that is heat curable to give the polyurethane compound and comprising at least one component that is chemically blocked to substantially eliminate the curing reaction at ambient temperature, and heat curing the mixture on the ends when the ends are in face-to-face relationship. The liquid castable mixture preferably comprises a polyurethane prepolymer and a methylene dianiline sodium chloride complex.

Abstract: A strip fabric material such as an aircraft arrester tape includes a loop formed by securing the end of the fabric material to the body of the fabric material by a joint which includes an additional layer having a thickness which has a relationship to the thickness of the strip fabric material itself lying in the range of ratios from 2:1 to 1:2. The additional layer may be of fabric material or of a cementing adhesive and there may be one or more additional layers, particularly when a fabric material is used.

Abstract: A screen mat having a moulded elastomeric body and at least one elongated tensioning member extending through said body along a path remote from the side edges of the body, the member or members being intended to tension the screen mat in use to restrain flexibility of the body, and in which the body comprises a screen part having substantially parallel upper (screening) and lower (underside) surfaces between which the apertures of the screen communicate and at least one rib which is integral with the screen part and stands proud of one of said surfaces, and wherein the tensioning member or members extend through the body substantially parallel with the surfaces and are located nearer to one of the surfaces than to the other and the rib or ribs are substantially co-extensive with, and overlie, the tensioning member or members substantially over their extent through the body.