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US 2020/0391841 A1Published application
Apparatus for Making Extruded and Co-extruded High-Altitude Balloons
OwnerAustyn Daniel Critesinventor
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Abstract
A high-altitude balloon manufacturing apparatus. The apparatus includes one or more extruders and one or more extrusion dies in fluid communication with the extruders. Each extrusion die is shaped to define one or more connector channels and one or more layering channels. The connector channels define extrudate flow paths between the layering channels.
Claims22
A high-altitude balloon manufacturing apparatus comprising:
- one or more extruders;
- and
- one or more extrusion dies in fluid communication with the extruders, each extrusion die shaped to define one or more connector channels and one or more layering channels, each connector channel defining one or more extrudate flow paths between two or more of the layering channels.
A high-altitude balloon manufacturing apparatus comprising:
- two or more extrudate dispensers, a first one of the extrudate dispensers having an input to receive a first extrudate material and a second one of the extrudate dispensers having an input to receive a second extrudate material;
- an extrusion die shaped to define two or more layering channels and one or more connector channels in fluid communication with the extrudate dispensers, the extrusion die having an extrudate outlet in fluid communication with the layering channels;
- a support disposed to receive coextruded layers of extrudate from the extrudate outlet;
- and
- a cooler in thermal communication with the extrudate outlet.
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A high-altitude balloon manufacturing apparatus comprising:
- two or more extrudate dispensers, a first one of the extrudate dispensers having an input to receive a first extrudate material and a second one of the extrudate dispensers having an input to receive a second extrudate material;
- an extrusion die shaped to define one or more first layering channels in fluid communication with the first extrudate dispenser and one or more second layering channels in fluid communication with the second extrudate dispenser;
- one or more connector channels in fluid communication with the first extrudate dispenser;
- and
- one or more connector channels in fluid communication with the second extrudate dispenser.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.