Abstract: The invention relates to an internal cladding member, more particularly a motor vehicle dashboard comprising a support which is lined with a foil coated with cellular material and which has for the emergence of an airbag on its release a flap integral with the support and covered by the foil, which has an impressed groove along the edges of the flap. The characterizing feature of the invention is that the joint separating the flap from the support over a portion of its periphery is narrower than 1.5 mm and the foil is weakened in the zone of the joint.

Abstract: A motor vehicle dashboard has a cutaway portion on the passenger's side, into which a hinged flap is inserted. Connected to the underside of the dashboard is a reinforcing half-shell with a discharge channel for an air bag. The characterizing feature of the invention is that the discharge channel forms an integral structural component with the reinforcing half-shell.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing flat articles which are moulded in any desired shaped in dry moulds from defibrated components of wood. In this process, the moisture required to give good felting remains a constituent of the wood fibres until the moulding stage. These wood fibres are mixed with fibre- and/or moisture-reactive binders and, if appropriate, auxiliaries, are metered by means of a gravity-compensating air stream onto a preform sieve, and are then compression-moulded without a cooling cycle in sieve-free moulds between two surfaces which are smooth or embossed in any desired pattern.