Abstract: A reciprocatory device in the form of a roller door catch has a reciprocatory plunger slidable in a fixed tubular housing and retained therein by an adjustment member. The plunger is urged to a normal resting position by a compression return spring. At its outer end the plunger rotatably supports a catch roller engageable with a recessed keeper mounted on the door frame. The adjustment member has a stem portion which projects into a blind bore at the inner end of the plunger, and this stem has radial stub projections which engage with a helical rib providing a screw thread within said bore, with a clearance in the axial direction approximating to the normal range of plunger reciprocation on door opening and closure. The adjustment member has a head portion with a frusto-conical clutch face which frictionally engages a mating clutch face at the inner end of the housing.

Abstract: Mould closing, clamping and opening means for the split mould of a pressure moulding machine comprises a pair of elongated arms each pivotally attached to the moving platen of the machine at one end and free at the other end, and extending lengthwise between the moving platen and a hydraulic rear clamping platen. During a mould operation the free ends of the arms engage the rear clamping platen so as to act as struts between the rear clamping platen and the moving platen during a mould clamping operation, but during a mould opening operation the arms are swung by an hydraulic cylinder to a position in which they register with openings in the rear clamping platen so that the arms may pass rearwardly through the openings as the mould opens.