Self-feeding press for producing strip material
OwnerRobert A. Caugheyinventor
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Abstract
A press for compacting and integrating material to form a continuous strip comprising spaced parallel arrays of long narrow bars, a frame supporting the bars in each array for reciprocal movement, a feeder for supplying material to the space between the arrays of bars at one of the press, rams for effecting relative movement of the arrays of bars toward each other to apply compacting pressure, and rams for effecting longitudinal movement of the bars in each array in a predetermined succession in one direction and for retracting all of the bars in consonance in the other direction.
Claims12
A method of compacting and integrating material to form a composite structure comprising, delivering the material of which the composite is to be formed onto a support, applying pressure to the material perpendicularly to the exposed surface of the material resting on the support by means of a plurality of narrow elongate bars arranged longitudinally of the support, while holding the bars pressed against the exposed surface of the material, moving them one by one along the exposed surface of the material a predetermined distance without moving the material in that direction until all of the bars have been moved a predetermined distance and then retracting all of the bars simultaneously in the opposite direction said predetermined distance and the material therewith relative to the support to discharge the composite structure from the support.
The method of compacting and integrating material to form a composite structure comprising, delivering the material of which the composite structure is to be formed to a space of predetermined configuration between spaced arrays of narrow elongated bars, applying pressure through the bars to compact the material between the arrays of bars, while holding the bars pressed against the material, moving less than the entire number of bars at any one time longitudinally in one direction without correspondingly moving the material until all of the bars have been moved said predetermined distance and then retracting all of the bars in consonance and the material therewith in the opposite direction said predetermined distance to discharge the composite structure.
The method of compacting and integrating material to form a composite structure comprising, delivering the material of which the composite structure is to be formed to a space of predetermined configuration between arrays of narrow elongated bars, wherein the collective widths of the bars is at least as wide as the transverse width of the structure, applying pressure through the bars to compact the material between the arrays of bars, while holding the bars pressed against the material, moving one or more and less than the entire number of bars at any one time longitudinally in one direction without correspondingly moving the material until all of the bars have been moved said predetermined distance and then retracting all of the bars in consonance and the material therewith in the opposite direction said predetermined distance to discharge a length of the composite structure corresponding to said predetermined distance.
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