Press Device for the Energy-Efficient Curing of a Sandwich Component for Aircraft

A press device for the energy-efficient curing of a sandwich component for an aircraft, the sandwich component having an open and mechanically adequately loadable core structure with cover layers applied to one side or to both sides, the sandwich component being clamped between a pressure piston, an abutment and sidewalls of the press device, thus forming an essentially closed interior space, and at least one cover layer and/or the core structure comprise/comprises a curable duroplastic plastic material, the press device comprising:

• a conveying device by which heated air can be fed through at least one inlet in a first sidewall of the press device at a defined curing pressure pcuring through the core structure of the sandwich component to at least one outlet in a second sidewall of the press device;
• a heater arranged outside the press device, by which heater the heated air is temperature-controllable so that in the region of the core structure a defined curing temperature TCuring results;
• two thermal insulating layers which at least in some regions are arranged on the pressure piston and the abutment;
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• two pressure sheet plates which at least in some regions are arranged on the thermal insulating layers.