A-A-2573 Bottle, VacuumThis commercial item description covers stainless steel narrow mouth vacuum bottles used for maintaining liquids at or near their original temperature.

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A-A-2573

Workmanship. The finished vacuum bottles shall be clean and free of slivers, die marks, sharp edges, dents, scratches, pits and deformities and other defects which may affect appearance or serviceability. The welds or brazes shall be uniform, sound and free of burn holes, cracks, undercutting, excessive metal build-up, and splatter. There shall be no evidence of scale or flux and the welds or brazes shall be finished to blend with the adjacent joined metal surfaces.

Quality Assurance:

Responsibility for inspection: Unless otherwise specified in the contract or purchase order, the supplier is responsible for the performance of all inspection requirements as specified herein. Except as otherwise specified, the supplier may utilize his own facilities or any commercial laboratory acceptable to the Government. Inspection records of the examinations or tests shall be kept complete and available to the Government as specified in the contract or purchase order. The Government reserves the right to perform any of the inspections set forth in the Commercial Item Description where such inspections are deemed necessary to assure that supplies and services conform to prescribed requirements.

Inspection of the end item: Sampling shall be in accordance with MIL-STD-105, Sampling Procedures and Tables for Inspection by Attributes. The inspection lot shall consist of all vacuum bottles offered for inspection at one time. The sample unit shall be one complete vacuum bottle.

Visual inspection. The visual examination of the vacuum bottles shall be for construction and workmanship defects in accordance with Table I. The inspection level shall be level II with an acceptable quality level (AQL) of 2.5 for major defects and 6.5 for total defects, expressed in terms of defects per hundred units.

Table I. Classification of Defects