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US 12,233,609 B2Granted
Bundling apparatus and method for making preform charges
AssigneeArris Composites Inc.
InventorsGreg Oden, Scott Digiorgio, Rose Cheung Atkinson, Zachary Aaron August, Maxwell Harshorn Shimshak
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Abstract
A bundling apparatus for fabricating a preform charge consisting of plural preforms includes a guide module, a tacking module, a bundle-advancement module, and a cutting module, and optionally one or more of a bending module, a scoring module, and inspection module, a consolidation module, and a placement module.
Claims17
An apparatus for forming a preform charge, the preform charge consisting of a plurality of preforms, the apparatus comprising:
- a guide module, wherein the guide module receives a plurality of fiber bundles and aligns the plural fiber bundles so that each fiber bundle abuts at least one other fiber bundle;
- a tacking module, wherein the tacking module adheres at least some of the fiber bundles, after alignment, to adjacent fiber bundles;
- a bundle-advancement module, wherein the bundle-advancement module controls motion of the fiber bundles through the apparatus;
- a cutting module, wherein the cutting module cuts the tacked fiber bundles to a desired length, thereby forming the preform charge consisting of the plurality of preforms.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.