Core material
AssigneeBristol Composite Materials Engineering Ltd.
InventorPhilip J. Turton
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Abstract
A machine suitable for fabricating a core material of resinated filaments has a frame having attachment points for filaments arranged linearly and a number of rods spaced apart and substantially parallel to the attachment points. The rods have one or more holes capable of receving a filament, and the rods are capable of displacement parallel to the plane of the attachment points. There is also a filament supply for passing filament from the attachment points via the rods, and a set of formers having pins capable of being located between the separated filaments following displacement by the rods. By operation of the machine and successive insertion of former, a shaped openwork structure of resinated filaments may be fabricated and which may be cured to produce the core material.
Claims12
Apparatus for fabricating a core material of resinated filaments comprising:
- filament supply means;
- a plurality of linearly arranged filament locating means;
- a plurality of rods spaced apart and substantially parallel to the filament locating means, the rods having at least one filament receiving hole and said rods being displaceable parallel to the plane of the filament locating means;
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- means for maintaining said filaments, displaced by said rods, at a desired separation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.