摘要:
A disposable, explosive spear head with a frangible nose section weakened in a predetermined manner and including a gas expansion chamber to burst the nose portion with an explodable cartridge arranged in the chamber and in a fixed position relative to the main spear casing and in the path of travel of a firing pin captivated in the spear and adapted to be driven into the firing pin against a spring-biasing means to ignite the cartridge and burst the nose portion.
摘要:
The method of laying and the construction of an oil pollution barrier for use on the ocean or other bodies of water. The method comprises the simultaneous and synchronized unreeling from a vessel of a resilient barrier strip formed with spaced inflatable pockets and a sectioned resilient hose containing a liquid chemical. Each inflatable pocket has an opening formed at the base which is in communication with an injection tube which is removably mounted below each pocket in the lower edge of the barrier strip. Each injection tube contains a chemical powder, reactive with the liquid in the hose to form a gas. At a predetermined point the injection tube is forced into the hose, the hose is compressed to force the liquid upward into contact with the chemical powder, the gas formed by the reaction inflating the pocket in the plastic barrier. In alternative forms of the invention the pocket is inflated by the use of a low boiling point volatile liquid or compressed gas stored in the hose. The barrier strip and hose are unreeled until the oil slick is surrounded, whereafter the ends of the barrier and hose are cut to form an enclosure around the oil spill.