Fixing device
AssigneeVestas Wind Systems A/S
InventorsHenning Schroder, Leif Kappel Petersen, Maja Rose Wieland, Olav Davis
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Abstract
A fixing device for fixating a segment of a wind turbine blade to a mold in which the blade segment is manufactured, wherein the blade segment has a fixating portion. The fixing device comprises: a first portion for removably fixating the blade segment at its fixating portion to the mold; and a second portion for fixating the fixing device to the mold.
Claims17
A fixing device for fixating a segment of a wind turbine blade to a mold in which the blade segment is manufactured, wherein the blade segment has a fixating portion, the fixing device comprising:
- a first portion for removably fixating the blade segment at its fixating portion to the mold;
- and
- a second portion for fixating the fixing device to the mold.
A method for manufacturing a wind turbine blade or a segment of a wind turbine blade in a mold, comprising:
- manufacturing a blade segment within a mold, at least one fixating portion being at least partially formed at the blade segment;
- providing at least one fixing device at the mold;
- and
- removably fixating the at least one fixating portion of the blade segment to the mold with the fixing device.
A mold in which at least a segment of a wind turbine blade is manufactured, comprising:
- a first portion for forming at least the segment of a wind turbine blade;
- a second portion at least partially surrounding the first portion for forming at least one fixating portion of the blade segment;
- and
- a fixing device to fixate the at least one fixating portion of the blade segment to the second portion of the mold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.