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Class 156/430 - By winding plural strands or webs


Subclass of Class 156 - Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
Definition: Apparatus in which more than one indefinite length element
No. of patents: 39
Last issue date: 04/22/2008


NumberTitleIssue Date
7361246Elastic composite for a disposable absorbent garment, and a system and process for making the elastic composite and a garment having the elastic composite
A method is provided for making an elastic composite for incorporation into a disposable absorbent garment. An elastic element applicator is provided that is configured to move a section of a continuous strand of elastic element generally about a plane. A first web ...
04/22/2008
7267152Device for the guiding of individual reinforcement threads
An arrangement (1) for guiding individual reinforcement filaments (2) onto a carrier (3) has a positioning disc (4) with a plurality of filament guides (9) arranged distributed on a circular ring of the positioning disc (4)....
09/11/2007
7124797Filament winding apparatus and methods of winding filament
The present invention relates to apparatus and methods for winding filament to create a structure. In one embodiment, the invention includes the application of filament to a rotating mandrel to create a desired shape. The invention includes the filament winding of b...
10/24/2006
7121616Vehicle door wedge assembly
A vehicle door wedge assembly includes a chassis and a slide moveable within the chassis. A non-metallic, elastomeric biasing element is provided to urge the slide toward one end of the chassis. The vehicle door wedge assembly with the chassis defines a slide path f...
10/17/2006
7083698Automated composite lay-up to an internal fuselage mandrel
An aircraft part manufacturing device for automated composite lay up includes a mandrel tool having a an interior mandrel surface that conforms to an outside mold line (OML) of a part: to be manufactured. One or more circular rings surround the mandrel and are attac...
08/01/2006
7048024Unidirectional, multi-head fiber placement
An aircraft part manufacturing device for automated composite lay up includes a mandrel tool having a an interior mandrel surface that conforms to an outside mold line (OML) of a part: to be manufactured. One or more circular rings surround the mandrel and are attac...
05/23/2006
6752190Cure-on-the-fly system
Fiber laminations with a resin therein are advanced to substantial cure in situ while resin-impregnated fiber (in the form of individual tows, a band thereof, or a tape) is being placed on a workpiece on the mandrel by preheating the fiber in a temperature range of ...
06/22/2004
RE38494Method of construction for density screening outer transport walls
A method for combining three different means of constructing the concentric layers of the outer collecting wall for industrial size centrifuges, whereby treating the inward-facing elements of easily cast or stamped materials using processes such as Physical Vapor De...
04/13/2004
6192958Apparatus for producing fiber-reinforced resin golf club shaft
A method and apparatus for producing a golf club shaft made of a fiber-reinforced resin which includes the steps of rotating a shaft substrate made of an uncured fiber-reinforced resin on the axis thereof, moving a plurality of creel stands in parallel in...
02/27/2001
6096164Multiple axes fiber placement machine
A fiber placement machine undergoes a plurality of axes of motion in locating a delivery head (containing a compaction roller) perpendicular to a mandrel, with relative movement between the head and the mandrel along a predetermined path, which may be ove...
08/01/2000
6059001Apparatus for manufacturing microtubes with axially variable geometries
The present invention is a technique for manufacturing microtube devices which have circumferential geometries repeated either uniformly or nonuniformly along the tube or device axis with sub-micron precision. The preferred manufacturing process involves ...
05/09/2000
6047756System for forming a braided hollow container with plugged ends
In order to reduce the weight and cost of LPG pressure-resistant containers, thermo-plastic resin is used in the continuous formation of a hollow container wherein the outer surface of a hollow continuous liner is continuously braided with multiple yarns....
04/11/2000
6007656Fiber reinforced thermoplastic structural member
In the manufacture of a structural member comprising a thermoplastic composite core with an exterior reinforcing layer, the core member is initially extruded in the shape of a profile. The profile is then contacted with reinforcing fiber and resin to form...
12/28/1999
5807451Pile weatherstripping having internal and external fins
Pile weatherstripping having rows of pile and longitudinal fins both within and external to the rows of pile. The heights of the fins with respect to the height of the pile may be independently varied and controlled. A travelling endless band receives a p...
09/15/1998
5643382Process and device for manufacturing a reinforced composite article
Process for manufacturing a composite article comprising a solid body reinforced by winding at least one reinforcing tape around the solid body. The reinforcing tape deposited on the solid body is subjected to a constant tensile force. Downstream of the p...
07/01/1997
5639337Apparatus for the fabrication of fiber composites with a vitreous or glass-ceramic matrix
Apparatus is provide for the fabrication of fiber composites composed of a fiber-reinforced vitreous or glass-ceramic matrix by winding fibers preimpregnated with constituents of the matrix onto a mandrel. The apparatus includes a furnace into which a win...
06/17/1997
5601522Fixed angle composite centrifuge rotor fabrication with filament windings on angled surfaces
A fixed angle rotor and method of manufacture of a fixed angle rotor has a frustum shaped rotor having rounded surfaces reinforced by filament tow windings against both vertical and horizontal forces generated during centrifugation. A so-called "high spee...
02/11/1997
5468207Method and apparatus of manufacturing a paint roller
A paint roller having a tubular core formed of thermoplastic material. The thermoplastic material being in the form of a multiplicity of spirally wound plies. The multiplicity of plies comprising an outer ply surrounding and in continuous contact with an ...
11/21/1995
5405485Robotic fiber optic quadrupole coil winder
A payguide mounting bracket assembly is connected to a support stand, and a spool is connected to the payguide mounting bracket assembly to have a fiber optic coil formed thereon. A pair of payguide assemblies are demountably coupled to the payguide mount...
04/11/1995
5338382Fabrication of pile weatherstripping having fins
Pile weatherstripping having rows of pile sandwiching a fin is fabricated so as to precisely locate the height of the fin with respect to the height of the pile. A travelling endless band receives webs providing the fins on opposite sides thereof with the...
08/16/1994
5238520Filament winding apparatus
Disclosed is a filament winding apparatus comprising a winding mechanism having a pair of arms for winding traversed filamentary yarns impregnated with a resin onto a plurality of mandrels, respectively, and a mandrel retaining mechanism having mandrel re...
08/24/1993
5160568Apparatus including a heated guide eye for winding a plurality of lengths of thermoplastic resin impregnated yarns
A consolidated structure with less than 6 percent void content is formed from a plurality of thermoplastic impregnated yarns traverse wound on a rotating mandrel by feeding the yarns under tension simultaneously from a source of supply to a traversing car...
11/03/1992
5137595Paint roller manufacturing apparatus
A paint roller is comprised of a thermoplastic tubular core and a cover fabric heat-fused thereto without an intermediate adhesive. The fabric is wound around the core in a helical path, and the core is heat-softened in the zone of winding to fuse the fab...
08/11/1992
5045147Filament winding system
A filament winding system includes a head that selects the number of tows to be within a winding band while winding and positioning the winding band directly on the mandrel according to contours of the mandrel. Half of the tows are conveyed in an upper po...
09/03/1991
4925126Fiber guide
A fiber guide includes a sleeve having a longitudinal slot therealong a first member, having a notch, is fixed in the sleeve with the notch substantially aligned with the slot. A second member, also having a notch, is rotatably disposed in the sleeve. Thu...
05/15/1990
4878984Apparatus for forming a filament-wound structure on a cylindrical pole
Apparatus whereby a filament web impregnated with resin in the unpolymerized state is fed to a pole (1) at a predetermined angle (଱) with respect to a plane perpendicular to this latter. The pole (1) is drawn in rotation about its axis (X-X') and th...
11/07/1989
4746393Apparatus and method for the production of hollow bodies of revolution formed from threads extending in three different directions
The invention relates to a process for the production of hollow bodies of revolution formed from threads extending in three different directions, as well as to a machine for performing this process. The machining of a mandrel, the installation or implanta...
05/24/1988
4707214Taping machine for hot taping an electrical conductor
A taping machine (10) for hot taping an electrical conductor (1), the machine comprising an outer ring (20) which is fixed so as not to rotate relative to the conductor and which receives the conductor to be insulated passing through the center thereof, a...
11/17/1987
4498941Method for producing fiber reinforced sheet structures
A method for high speed continuous production of reinforced plastic sheets and reinforced plastic sheet laminate structures which may have widths ranging from relatively narrow to very wide. One or more layers of resin impregnated, fiber-containing, reinf...
02/12/1985
4495018Process for producing a reinforced tube
Process of making a reinforced tube including extruding a thin walled tube, encircling the tube with a completely closed layer of helically extending strip coated with heat activatable adhesive material. The tube is then passed through a sizing die heated...
01/22/1985
4495021Apparatus for producing fiber reinforced plastic sheet structures
Apparatus for producing reinforced plastic sheets and reinforced plastic sheet laminate structures on a high speed continuous basis and which sheets and laminate structures may have widths ranging from relatively narrow to very wide. The apparatus compris...
01/22/1985
4372792Manufacture of a flexible stranded optical fiber body
An overhead electric conductor with optical fibres loosely housed in the bore of a central core, which bore also contains a greasy water-impermeable medium 4, is manufactured by causing a preformed elongate metal member of U-shaped transverse cross-sectio...
02/08/1983
4343672Method and apparatus for producing tube
A method and an apparatus for producing a tube from a strip of synthetic resin and/or unvulcanized rubber incorporating a vulcanizing agent by winding the strip on a former supported by a frame in the manner of a cantilever to shape the strip into a tubul...
08/10/1982
4264399Material braking apparatus
PCT No. PCT/US79/00450 Sec. 371 Date June 26, 1979 Sec. 102(e) Date June 26, 1979 PCT Filed June 26, 1979 PCT Pub. No. WO81/00096 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 22, 1981 A braking apparatus (36) is provided for a supply spool (30) whereby material (12) drawn from the...
04/28/1981
4197348Wrapped elongated structure in which positioning of a one sided adhesive tape is such as to permit wrapping to move relative to a core
The disclosure relates to a construction for a wrapped elongated structure, a method of manufacturing an apparatus to manufacture the wrapped elongated structure. The wrapped elongated structure has an elongated core. An adhesive tape having one adhesive ...
04/08/1980
4147454Method of and apparatus for construction of pipes for marine use, as for ocean mining and the like
The present invention is concerned with methods of and apparatus for constructing cylindrical structures such as large-diameter pipes for the transport of materials in ocean mining and the like, whereby one or more rolls of previously prepared sheet mater...
04/03/1979
4089727Apparatus for making fiber reinforced plastic members
The present invention relates to FRP members, the apparatus and process for making same. The FRP members are reinforced with helical strands of reinforcing material disposed in expanded helices of opposite hand, the helices of each hand being contained in...
05/16/1978
4028164Process and apparatus for the continuous obtainment by displacement of cylindrical or prismatic hollow bodies produced with fibre-reinforced synthetic resins
An improved process, and the apparatus for carrying out the process, of forming an elongated hollow body from fibre-reinforced synthetic resins. A plurality of resin impregnated support fibres are positioned over and extend longitudinally along a rotating...
06/07/1977
4024004Method of making pile weatherstripping
A pile weatherstripping has a continuous length of a resin anchorage base with even lengths of filaments secured to opposite sides of the base along the length of the base and extending away from the base in the same general direction on each side of the ...
05/17/1977
 
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