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860,815. Storing liquefied gases. CONSTOCK LIQUID METHANE CORPORATION. Feb. 26, 1958 [March 14, 1957], No. 37197/58. Divided out of 860,814. Class 8(2). The floor and sides of a rectangular metal shell 3, Fig. 1 (not shown) for transporting liquefied gases are lined with a plurality of independently mounted panels 5, 6, 7 Fig. 8 of heat insulating material, e.g. a balsa wood core 11 having front and rear plywood facings 12, 10 bonded thereto and being arranged in abutting side by side relation. The abutting sides of the panels each have peripheral grooves 15 which after the panels are assembled are charged with mastic from a pump 26. Each panel is held by nuts 19, Fig. 3 screwed to bolts 17 projecting inwardly from the shell 3 into the holes 13 bored through the panel ; the overlying portion of each hole afterwards being stopped by a plug 20, 21, Figs. 4 and 5. Specifications 860,816, 860,817 and 860,819 also are referred to. |