Aperture reinforcing means for apertures in reinforced flexible materials
AssigneeBritish Hovercraft Corporation Limited
InventorJohn Henry
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Abstract
An aperture in a component manufactured from reinforced flexible sheet material is reinforced with a pegged washer plate. The pegged washer plate has an apertured body portion with pegs extending therefrom, and is embedded in the flexible sheet material so that the pegs mesh with threads of a layer of material reinforcing the flexible sheet material.
Claims8
In a component manufactured from at least one layer of a reinforcing fabric material embedded within an elastomeric material and having at least one aperture extending through the elastomeric and reinforcing materials, aperture reinforcing means embedded within the elastomeric material at the location of the or each aperture, said means comprising a pegged washer plate including an apertured body portion having two opposed substantially parallel surfaces and a plurality of pegs spaced around the aperture in the body portion so as to extend outwardly from at least one of the opposed parallel surfaces to mesh with the reinforcing material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.