USA As Represented by Secretary of the Navy

William H Thielbahr

Bernard Wasserman

Leroy M Stayton

Frederick A Emerson, Jr

James C Connelly

A barrier layer made up of a suitable powder interspersed within either a trix of cured propellant binder or a matrix of silicone rubber is interposed between a silicone rubber insulator and a solid propellant grain in a rocket motor to prevent curatives from migrating from the propellant into the silicone rubber layer when the propellant is cast.

Powder barrier bonding technique

Compositions consisting essentially of about 1 weight percent carbon black, rom about 20 to about 35 weight percent polytetrafluoroethylene and from about 79 to about 64 weight percent of a material selected from the group consisting of isobutylene-isoprene copolymer and ethylene-propylene rubber are disclosed as being useful as protective fillers in situations where the protective filler is subjected to high temperatures and pressures.

Product and process for protecting split line of a movable nozzle

A method for molding one piece seamless contoured structures. The mold consists of a hollow, cylindrical mold member whose internal surface area defines the external surface of the piece to be molded, that is adaptive to receive a piston having a reservoir containing a fluid plastic and a mandrel mold member of low melting alloy whose shape defines the internal surface of the molded structure. The piston is forced upward to cause the fluid plastic to flow into the interstices and allowed to cure. Heat is applied to the mold assembly to melt the alloy to allow removal of the contoured structure when the mold assembly is disassembled.

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Ridgecrest, CA, United States of America

William H Thielbahr