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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8066838 | Composite tubes and method of manufacturing same A method of fabricating a composite tubular member includes providing a mandrel having a central longitudinal axis and wrapping a plurality of composite fiber layers around said mandrel wherein the longitudinal axis thereof is oriented at a first angle with respect ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8057617 | Method for producing tubular body made of fiber reinforced resin and tubular body produced by method A method for producing a tubular body includes a step of winding at least one of winding bias prepregs, at least one of straight prepregs, and at least one of hoop prepregs round a core. At the winding step, after the hoop prepreg and/or the hoop prepreg are adheren... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7887660 | Composite pipes and method making same Reinforced composite pipes and methods for making the same, generally employ at least one polymeric reinforcement phase, typically provided as an intermediate form 214. The intermediate form is typically applied over a core pipe 216, and may be consoli... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7374629 | Pass-through fishing rod and method of manufacturing same A hollow telescopic fishing rod has a rod body made from resin and reinforcing fibers. The rod body has an inner circumferential surface, wherein concave surface portions and convex surface portions are formed in the inner circumferential surface of the rod body. Th... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7374498 | All-weather golf club grip A slip-resistant shock absorbing golf club grip that includes a felt layer, a fabric mesh formed of fibers and a polyurethane coating covering the mesh and felt, the fibers of the mesh defining grooves in the surface of the slip-resistant polyurethane which are enga... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7361384 | Corrosion protection system for transport pipe An apparatus and method for coating pipelines with a hot melt adhesive coating and a tape. The coating may comprise a copolymer of an alkyl substituted hydrocarbon polymer in combination with a diene polymer and the tape to overly the coating may comprise a polymeri... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7344615 | Method and apparatus for performing a charging process on an image carrying device A charge roller that includes a metal core, an elastic member configured wrapped around the metal core, and film members is disclosed. Each of the film members is wrapped around each end of the elastic member in a circumferential direction of the metal core such tha... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7331120 | Throughflow cylinder A throughflow cylinder made at least partly of fiber-reinforced plastic including glass fibers, aramide fibers, carbon fibers, and/or carbon-reinforced plastic (CRP). The matrix material of the fiber-reinforced plastic includes a material heat resistant at least up ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7285177 | Thin-walled reinforced sleeve with integral compressible layer A sleeve for a print cylinder comprising a fiber reinforced, thin-walled material and having a seamless surface ready to be covered with a surface material. The sleeve may be used in flexographic printing, either as a support for photo-polymerized printing plates or... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7252731 | Apparatus and method for applying double-coated pressure sensitive adhesive tape, and method for producing catalytic converter An application apparatus is provided with an object supporting section including a support surface for supporting an object; a tape carrying section for rotatably carrying, in a roll form, a double-coated pressure sensitive adhesive tape with a release paper attache... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7219424 | Method for temporary repair of the overbraid for metal overbraided wiring harnesses A method for the repair of the overbraid for metal overbraided wiring harness is provided. The method requires no special wiring harness design, uses readily available materials and can be accomplished without removing the wiring harness. The method involves trimmin... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7201818 | Method of making arrow shaft including integral sleeve, and arrow shaft which is produced thereby In a method of making an arrow shaft, a fabric section is placed around a hollow tubular core, and is affixed thereto. The core may include carbon therein. An adhesive or protective composition, associated with the fabric, is cured to adhere the fabric to the core. ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7093620 | Reinforced plastic pipe and process for manufacturing the said pipe Reinforced pipe obtained by winding, onto a tubular support based on a polymeric composition, of reinforcing tapes comprising an oriented polymeric composition in layers crossed at an equal but opposite angle relative to the axis of the pipe. The tapes are selected ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7087128 | Method for manufacturing bicycle components A method for manufacturing a hub in particular for bicycles and the like, wherein a winding device comprising at least a first shaping device is provided, a predetermined quantity of fibers is deposited on said first shaping device, at least a first cross-linking ag... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7078082 | Dual-functioning mechanism for startup during winding of web material and for splicing during unwinding A tail end of a web is attached to a winding core via a two-component mechanism having a core component attached to the core and a web component attached to the web, the two components being attached to each other in releasable fashion. The mechanism assists startup... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7067588 | Building element Building element having two parallel welded wire grid mats (1, 2), of straight web wires (7) which hold the wire grid mats at a predetermined distance apart and are joined at each end to the two wire grid mats. An insulating body (8) is arranged... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7060337 | Adhesive roller assembly An adhesive roller for detritus removal having a tubular cylindrical adhesive roll formed by a plurality of overlapping spiral wound layers. Each layer has a backing substrate and an adhesive coating on an outwardly facing side of the sheet. A cover is removably dis... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7045032 | Pass-through fishing rod and method of manufacturing same A hollow telescopic fishing rod has a rod body made from resin and reinforcing fibers. The rod body has an inner circumferential surface, wherein concave surface portions and convex surface portions are formed in the inner circumferential surface of the rod body. Th... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6972066 | Roll, roll production apparatus and method for producing roll Rolls easy to be produced are provided. The invention provides a roll which is composed of a main tape cylindrically wound up. The main tape is provided with a first and second holes, respectively, in its winding terminating position and winding initiating position.... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6960274 | Tooling and method of manufacturing a mesh laminate An apparatus and method of manufacturing a wire mesh laminate includes wrapping a central core with multiple layers of mesh screen and a barrier layer having a higher melting point than the mesh screen to form a spool assembly. The spool assembly is then surrounded ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6921449 | Continuous spiral process for manufacturing imageable seamed belts for printers A method of manufacturing on a continuous basis quantities of seamed belts with imageable seams for printing systems from a continuous supply web of belt material, which seamed belts need to be manufactured to a desired circumference and width. In the disclosed embo... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6890461 | Method of reinforcing concrete electric pole In a method of reinforcing an existing concrete electric pole having an annular side wall, an inner hollow portion provided therein and an opening portion formed to a position of the annular side wall to be penetrated therethrough, at least one of a predetermined am... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6889715 | Flexible tubular member with sealed tape layer A flexible pipe in which a layer of wound tape extends adjacent a surface of a tubular member to limit or prevent molecular migration through the tubular member. ... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6863763 | Hybrid propeller shaft made of metal and composite material and method of manufacturing the same The propeller shaft comprises a transmission shaft 10 consisting of a hollow metal tube 11 with excellent torque transmissibility and a composite material prepregs 12 having higher specific stiffness than a metal material and stacked to the inne... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6835263 | Method of producing a tube-shaped torsion-proof and bending-resistant drive shaft An undercritical drive shaft and a method of producing the undercritical drive shaft from fiber composite material is disclosed. The drive shaft, which is produced of fiber composite material and is to be used as an undercritically operating shaft, has a high damage... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6818088 | Apparatus to fabricate photosensitive drum for image forming apparatus and method thereof An apparatus and method to fabricate a photosensitive drum for an image forming apparatus. The apparatus includes a photosensitive belt supply roll and a double-sided tape supply roll; a bonding unit to bond a photosensitive belt and a double-sided tape together; a ... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6786991 | Method for manufacturing preforms for polymer optical fibers A method for manufacturing preforms for polymer optical fibers having an index of refraction that is variable over the radius, in which a core of preform material is coated with coating material for forming the preform until a predefinable diameter is reached, the r... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6767422 | Shaft for light-weight golf clubs A golf club shaft is 35-50 percent lighter than a conventional shaft while maintaining the outer diameter and structural characteristics of conventional shafts. The shaft has at least four layers of fiber reinforced material. The fiber reinforced layers are from inn... | 07/27/2004 |
| RE38552 | Apparatus for manufacturing composite tubular articles A frame, a drive mechanism for rotating a mandrel, at least two spindles mounted to the frame, a tensioner, and a belt extending between the first and second spindles may be used to roll pre-preg strips or similar sheets of composite materials around the mandrel. Th... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6692377 | Graphite shaft with foil modified torsion An improved golf club shaft is disclosed. The golf club shaft includes a shaft body made of a composite material, such as carbon/epoxy, and a metal foil wrapped in a spiral pattern around at least a portion of the shaft body. The metal foil increases the ... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6666939 | Member for oil application device, method of manufacturing the member, and oil application device A tubular member for an oil application device is formed separately and is fitted in such a manner as to cover a peripheral face of a porous cylindrical oil retaining member. The tubular member for the oil application device has a multi-layer structure in... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6592698 | Sheet roll producing apparatus, sheet roll discharging apparatus, and core supplying apparatus A method of forming sheet rolls made of a heat transfer recording sheet having a transfer ink layer on a surface of a base by winding the recording sheet around the outer peripheries of a plurality of cores. The method includes supplying a web heat transf... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6485376 | Golf club shaft A golf club shaft includes an inner layer, an intermediate layer placed on the inner layer, and an outer layer placed on the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer has inclined yarns, which are substantially symmetric and have predetermined orientatio... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6413343 | Method for manufacturing hybrid golf club shafts An improved shaft for a golf club and methods of manufacturing the same. A plurality of layers of composite fiber bound within a thermoset resin are bonded to one or more layers of composite fiber bound within a thermoplastic resin using a high peet stren... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6394385 | Winding cores for pressure-sensitive tape and methods of making same A tubular or ring-shaped core for winding pressure-sensitive tape has a paper board body and a release-coated outermost ply formed of a strip of polymer film having a release coating on its outer surface and a tacky adhesive layer on its inner surface. Th... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6374892 | Heat transfer recording sheet producing apparatus and roll shaft supplying apparatus A sheet winding apparatus or a heat transfer recording sheet providing apparatus including the sheet winding apparatus, the sheet winding apparatus formed of a plurality of sheet winding devices arranged in multiple steps in a vertical direction. Each of ... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6340509 | Composite bicycle frame and method of construction thereof Bicycle frame components without laps made by a method comprising; shaping a fluid-removable core in the general form of the component, placing a flexible inflatable bladder around the core, wrapping over the assembly of core and bladder at least one ply of fiber i... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6299718 | Method of manufacturing a cylindrical part by fiber reinforced plastic composite material The disclosed method can manufacture a thick-walled cylindrical part of an excellent quality which is free from the interlayer separation, by using a fiber reinforced plastic composite material. The fiber reinforced plastic composite material having a sma... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6269859 | Sheet roll producing apparatus, sheet roll discharging apparatus, and core supplying apparatus A sheet roll forming system for forming sheet rolls by winding a heat transfer recording sheet around an outer periphery of a plurality of cores including a core supplying apparatus and a sheet roll discharge apparatus. The core supplying apparatus includ... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6258197 | Method for manufacturing pipe fitting, and pipe fitting The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a pipe fitting, said method comprising manufacturing a preform (1) of plastic, and forming an additional layer (3) on top of it. According to the invention, the additional layer (3) is formed by winding ... | 07/10/2001 |
