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US 4,405,669 AGranted
Laminate reinforcement for fibre-reinforced synthetic resins
AssigneeKoninklijke Textielfabrieken Nijverdal-Ten Cate N.V.
InventorRichard Pott
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AssigneeKoninklijke Textielfabrieken Nijverdal-Ten Cate N.V.
InventorRichard Pott
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The invention relates to a laminate reinforcement for fibre-reinforced sunthetic resins and has for its object to provide a laminate reinforcement of highly resistant and high elasticity modulus fibres for extremely heavy-duty, yet light-weight and indent-resistent floating bodies and provides to that purpose such a reinforcement in which the laminate reinforcement is obtained by means of at least two parallel tissue tapes forming by their tissue seams a paunch gap, which is covered with a similar, but narrower covering tape, doubling of the reinforcing fibres in the area of the paunch gap in parallel relationship producing a Stringer effect, in which the warp and weft yarns of the tissue tape are made from reinforcing fibres having a higher elasticity modulus and a higher specific tensile strength than glass fibres, said fibres consisting of carbon, aramid, boron fibres or the like, the warp yarns of carbon and aramid being in intimate contact with one another and the weft yarns of aramid or carbon being spaced apart in parallel relationship by a larger distance than the warp yarns.
A laminate reinforcement in a fibre-reinforced synthetic resin, characterized in that the laminate reinforcement is obtained by means of at least two parallel tissue tapes forming by their tissue seams (14) a paunch gap (15), which is covered with a similar, but narrower covering tape (16) to provide doubling of the reinforcing fibres in the area of the paunch gap in parallel relationship producing a Stringer effect, in which the warp and weft yarns of the tissue tape are made from reinforcing fibres such as carbon, aramid, boron and like fibres having a higher elasticity modulus and a higher specific tensile strength than glass fibres, the warp yarns of carbon (11) and aramid (12) being closely spaced with one another and the weft yarns (13) being spaced apart in parallel relationship by a larger distance than the warp yarns (11) and (12).
A fiber-reinforced synthetic resin article comprising at least two tissue tapes disposed in side-by-side but spaced parallel relation to define a gap therebetween, each tissue tape comprising a layer of warp fibers extending parallel to said gap and an undulating weft fiber woven back and forth across the layer of warp fibers to form the tape and in which the successive runs of the weft fiber are spaced apart by distances greater than the spacings between warp fibers, said fibers being made of material having a higher elasticity modulus and a higher specific tensile strength than glass fibers, and gap-reinforcing means for bridging said gap to provide a doubling of reinforcing fibers at the opposite sides of such gap, said gap-reinforcing means comprising at least one further tissue tape similar to said tapes first mentioned and having its warp fibers extending at least generally in the direction of the warp fibers of said first mentioned tapes.
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