Fabricating bodies
AssigneeUnited Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
InventorsMichael Lesney Noakes, Wilfred George Caesar, William Henry Holland, Norman Herbert Hancock
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing a body comprising the steps of forming a single strip of material with at least one plain region and at least one region of protrusions, such as corrugations, bumps or ridges. The single strip of material is then laid on itself in a manner so as to provide two or more layers of the material and locate a plain region of one layer alongside a region of protrusions of an adjacent layer. The laying step may be accomplished by winding the strip into a coil.
Claims28
A method of manufacturing a body, which method comprises the steps of forming a single elongate strip of material with regions comprising;
- alternately along the length of the strip, a plain region and a region of protrusions;
- laying the, or each, plan region onto the, or each, region of protrusions by folding the strip about an axis extending across the strip transverse to the length of the strip;
- and winding the folded strip onto itself, starting at the axis about which the strip is folded to form a coil which comprises alternate layers of plain and corrugated strip.
A body comprising a single continuous elongate strip of material which has been worked to provide it with regions comprising, alternately along the length of the strip, a plain region and a region of protrusions, and has been folded about an axis extending across the strip transverse to the length of the strip to lay a plain region of the strip onto a region of protrusions wherein the folded strip has been wound onto itself to form a coil.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.