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US 11,697,878 B2Granted
Continuous multiple tow coating reactor
AssigneeRaytheon Technologies Corporation
InventorsYing She, John E. Holowczak
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Abstract
A tow coating reactor system includes a reactor for receiving fiber tow, a wedge situated adjacent the reactor and configured to receive the tow at a tip end, such that as the tow moves across the wedge, the wedge spreads the tow into a plurality of sub-tows.
Claims17
A tow coating reactor system comprising:
- a reactor for receiving fiber tow;
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- a wedge situated adjacent the reactor and configured to receive the tow at a tip end, such that as the tow moves across the wedge, the wedge spreads the tow into a plurality of sub-tows, wherein the wedge includes a plurality of longitudinal grooves, each of the plurality of longitudinal grooves configured to receive one of the plurality of sub-tows, and the wedge includes a plurality of fins within each of the plurality of longitudinal grooves.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.