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US 2021/0340779 A1Published application
Deck board apparatus and method of making same
AssigneeStrongwell Corporation
InventorsJoe Spanovich, Barry Myers, II
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Abstract
A method of making a pultruded deck board attachment fastened to a substructure to provide a stiffer and stronger deck board than a wood, wood composite, or plastic deck board, wherein the pultruded deck board attachment, along with any fasteners, is covered and protected with a walking surface that is, in examples, snapped in to place.
Claims7
1) A method of making a decking attachment apparatus comprising the following steps:
- pulling fibrous reinforcements off one or more creels or doffs;
- pulling the fibrous reinforcements through one or more guide plates to align with one or more thermosetting resin wet-out baths;
- pulling the fibrous reinforcements through the one or more thermosetting wet-out baths, wherein the one or more wet-out baths contain a liquid thermosetting resin matrix to create or form saturated fibrous reinforcements;
- pulling the saturated fibrous reinforcements through one or more preformers to consolidate, shape, or form the saturated fibrous reinforcements;
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- pulling the saturated fibrous reinforcements through one or more heated dies to cure and harden the saturated fibrous reinforcements;
- wherein the decking attachment apparatus is capable of being attached to one or more decking joists on a first side and one or more decking surface capping apparatus on a second side.
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