Abstract: A non-lethal method for the identification-marking of a culpability-action culprit involving, at substantially the time of culprit participation in such an action, marking/tagging that culprit with a detectable, non-lethal, tenacity marking medium which is designed to stay tenaciously resident with the culprit, and which, because of its detectability, can readily pinpoint a marked culprit. Such tagging preferably involves enveloping the culprit with a vapor-like cloud of such a medium, whereby the medium enters at least one of the culprit's (a) clothing, (b) skin, and (c) anatomical orifices. This methodology also importantly enables the attendant location and identification of culprit collaborators by using the occasion of finding a specifically tagged culprit to observe the company kept by that culprit.

Abstract: Structure, methodology and performance involving and utilizing body armor strand material which includes an elongate strand body possessing elongate brittle ceramic surface structure, elongate ductile core structure disposed within that surface structure, and elongate brittle/ductile transition structure operatively interposed and joining the surface and core structures. Methodology includes the steps of preparing a defined mass of elongate ceramic-surfaced, ductile-cored strand elements, each including, along the outside of its length, elongate, sharp-angular edges, and placing that mass in the impact path of such a projectile in a manner whereby edges in the strands face the projectile impact path.

Abstract: Barrier structure for furnishing, selectively and variously, penetration and fire-threat protection on the outside surface of a target structure. The barrier structure includes a high-elastomeric coating having an inner face bonded to such a surface, an exposed outer face, and, within this coating, at least one elastomeric layer region extending to the outer face, and containing an embedded distribution of intumescence elements. Basic variations of this structure include (a) an additional layer region which is formed with elastomeric-material including an embedded distribution of liquid-imbiber beads, and (b) an additional layer region which is formed purely of elastomeric material. The elastomeric material employed, and the embedded liquid-imbiber beads where included, react to liquid petroleum-based substances (1) to imbibe such liquid, (2) to swell in size as a result of such imbibing, and (3) to coagulate into a sticky mass.

Abstract: A traveling pipeline straddle coater for spray-applying an anti-ballistic threat-diminishing, protective barrier coating to the outside of an elongate, ground-following petroleum-product pipeline. The straddle-coater includes a straddle frame which is clearance-positionable over such a pipeline, ground-traveling support structure supporting the frame for movement over the ground along the pipeline, canopy structure mounted on the frame for covering a frame-straddled length of the pipeline, and spray structure carried on the frame inside the canopy structure for spraying barrier-coating material onto the outside of the pipeline. The related method of the invention includes straddling a pipeline with a ground-traveling spray-coating apparatus, advancing the spray-coating apparatus progressively along that pipeline, and while so advancing, spray coating the pipeline with protective barrier-coating material.

Abstract: A method for forming a ballistic-impact armor structure (and a resulting structure) having a defined, precision-shaped outside configuration, where the method which results in the structure includes the steps of (a) precision-creating a hollow container having the defined outside configuration, (b) introducing ballistic armor-content material into the interior of the container, (c) positionally stabilizing the introduced armor-content material, and (d) unifying the armor-content material with the container.

Abstract: A mobile transform structure having an openable/closeable trailer body which is reversibly transformable between a closed, transportable, tractor-trailer mode and an open, ground-stabilized, spray-booth mode for receiving, and armor spray-coating, a selected surface in a subject wheeled vehicle at the location of that vehicle. The transform structure includes, in addition to the trailer body, a deployable canopy structure useable, with the trailer body open, to form a canopied spray enclosure for receiving a subject vehicle, and a trailer-self-contained, armor spray-coating system operable, when a wheeled vehicle is received in the enclosure, to armor spray-coat a selected surface in that vehicle.

Abstract: A solid-fuel rocket assembly including an elongate fuel container having a long axis, and an inner surface spaced outwardly from, and generally circumsurrounding, that axis, and a continuous, elastomeric, heat-insulative, intumescence-behavior jacket adhered to the container's inner surface and defining a central chamber for receiving an elongate body of solid fuel. This structure implements a method for minimizing, in a solid-fuel rocket, heat damage to the wall of a solid-fuel container during burning of contained solid fuel including the steps of (a) producing dual-interface, continuous-presence, heat-insulative barriering in the zone existing between the container and burning fuel, with such barriering being characterized by (1) interfacially following any heat-produced deformations in the container wall, and (2) interfacially confronting the burning fuel with a tendency for intumescence-driven barrier-thickening.

Abstract: Barrier structure placeable as an anti-fuel-leak coating on the outside surface of a liquid container. This coating includes a first-type layer structure formed of a high-elongation-capable elastomer which also is capable of imbibing container leakage liquid, and of swelling in the process, and a second-type layer structure disposed adjacent one side of the first-type layer structure, composite in nature, and possessing bead-like components entrained in the same elastomer employed in first-type layer structure, with these entrained components structured also to be imbibers of leakage container liquid, and to expand on imbibing such liquid. Also disclosed is methodology which involves applying to the outside surface of such a container a coating possessing cooperative, penetration-sealing characteristics including (a) elastic elongatability before breakage within a range of about 300-400%, and (b) leakage-liquid-contact swelling, accompanied by leakage-liquid/coating contact-triggered coagulation.

Abstract: A gun turret armor shroud for the 360° shielding of a gunner atop a military vehicle having a top-mounted gun including a generally annular, fabric-based. flex-curtain structure, and associated with this flex-curtain structure at least one of (a) an internal support frame, and (b) an external support frame.

Abstract: Structure, and a related method, for sealing, from the outside, a liquid-leaking puncture wound in the wall of a liquid container. This structure includes a patch body having a perimetered cavity selectively securable via a self-torque-limiting bolt to the outside of such a container in a manner whereby the cavity overlies and faces the wound, with the cavity's perimeter surrounding the wound, and a patch pellet contained and confined in the cavity, and formed, at least in part, of a liquid-reaction substance which, with the patch body secured to the container, reacts to contact with liquid leaking from the container at least by imbibing such liquid and swelling to apply wound-sealing pressure, and more preferably by additionally reacting with leakage liquid to form a sticky coagulant mass for aiding in applying sealing pressure to the wound.

Abstract: A method utilizing a spray instrumentality for spray-applying to a target surface in a target zone a defined, composite-material layer which is to play a role in defeating a liquid leak from a puncture wound created in the wall of a container holding liquid of a particular character. The method includes the steps of (a) initiating a flow toward the spray instrumentality of liquid elastomeric body-forming material, (b) at a selectable point downstream from where such initiating takes place, introducing a flow of plural, bead-like, liquid-imbiber elements which are relevant to the mentioned particular-character liquid, (c) in a user-chooseable manner in relation to the introducing step, merging the two flows, and (d) following such merging, applying the merged flows to a target surface, thus to create the desired, defined composite-material layer which takes the form of a body of elastomeric material containing a distribution of liquid-imbiber elements.

Abstract: A bulk, generally elastomeric and pliable, layered mat formed to permit selective trimming into size-chosen mat trims/tiles, each of which is structured to perform as a self-puncture(wound)-sealing, defined-liquid-reactive, anti-puncture-leakage coating element applicable bondedly to the outside surface of a selected wall in a container holding the defined-liquid. Also disclosed is a method for protecting against liquid leakage from a puncture wound in such a wall including: (a) preparing a generally elastomeric, pliable, layered coating mat of a self-puncture-healing, defined-liquid-reactive, anti-puncture-leakage material; (b) in relation to a selected container wall, selectively removing, by trimming, from the prepared mat one or more mat trims/tiles shaped for specific use on the outside surface of that wall; and (c) applying and surface-bonding the one or more trims/tiles to the outside surface of the selected wall.

Abstract: A method for applying a plural-layer coating to the outside of a liquid container to act as an anti-leakage barrier in the event of a penetration wound occurring in the container resulting from a penetrating projectile strike, such as a bullet strike. This method includes (a) forming on the outside of such a container, a first layer optimized for providing an elastomeric wound-closure response, (b) forming on the outside of this first layer a second layer optimized for providing combined elastomeric and liquid-imbibing wound-closure responses, and (c) forming on the outside of such a second layer a third, layer optimized in the same manner as the first layer.

Abstract: A head-pressure-variant, self-healing, anti-liquid-leak coating for the outside of an upright wall in a liquid container. This coating possesses a thickness which varies from smaller toward larger advancing downwardly along a coated container wall. Preferred embodiments of the coating include: (a) one whose overall thickness varies in a linear way; (b) another whose thickness varies in a staged/stepped manner; and (c) a third whose thickness varies in a smooth, non-linear way. In all embodiments, the coating includes plural layers having interlayer-thickness relationships which are the same throughout the coating.

Abstract: A self-protecting, fire-inhibiting structure including wall structure formed of an elastomeric material having an outwardly exposed surface which is at risk for exposure to the heat of fire, and within that wall structure, a distributed population of intumescence elements. Associated with such structure is a fire-inhibition method for protecting a target structure having a dynamic-motion surface, including the steps of (a) applying an elastomeric, fire-resistant coating having a heat-responsive growth nature to such a surface with the applied coating having an outer side, and (b), on the occurrence of the outer side of that coating becoming exposed to the heat of fire, invoking the heat-responsive growth nature of the coating progressively to grow the coating's thickness as temperature rise within the coating progresses inwardly from the coating's outer side.

Abstract: A method for spray-creating a composite-material layer useable in a plural-layer coating applied to the outside surface of a liquid container to defeat liquid leakage from that container following a projectile penetration of the container, and utilizing in the creation of such a layer a blend of first and second, penetration-reaction materials including, as a first penetration-reaction material, a high-elastomeric body-forming material, and as a second penetration-reaction material, liquid-imbibing bead-like elements.

Abstract: Structure, and a related method, for sealing, from the outside, a leaking puncture wound in the wall of a liquid container. This structure includes a patch body having a perimetered cavity selectively securable via a self-torque-limiting bolt to the outside of such a container in a manner whereby the cavity overlies and faces the wound, with the cavity's perimeter surrounding the wound, and a patch pellet contained and confined in the cavity and formed, at least in part, of a reaction substance which, with the patch body secured to the container, reacts to contact with liquid leaking from the container at least by imbibing such liquid and swelling to apply wound-sealing pressure, and more preferably by additionally reacting with leakage liquid to form a sticky coagulant mass for aiding in applying sealing pressure to the wound.