Composite, pultruded fiberglass resinous hockey stick, method and device for manufacture thereof

A linear product produced by an automated pultrusion method, said method comprising the steps of:

• providing a plurality of roving sources from a creel bank comprising a plurality of spools;
• forming and drawing the product through the process about and upon an elongated, rigid mandrel;
• guiding an inner veil upon said mandrel;
• feeding a first set of rovings through a first pattern card for converging said first set of rovings toward said mandrel;
• gathering said first set of rovings into abutment with said mandrel and said inner veil to establish a first longitudinal layer of rovings;
• spirally winding rovings radially about said first longitudinal layer of rovings and said mandrel in a first radial direction relative to said mandrel, thereby establishing a first radial layer of separate roving helixes;
• feeding a second set of rovings through a second pattern card for converging said second set of rovings toward said mandrel;
• gathering said second set of rovings into abutment with said first radial layer of rovings and said mandrel to establish a second longitudinal layer of rovings;
• spirally winding rovings radially about said second longitudinal layer of rovings and said mandrel in a second, opposite radial direction relative to said mandrel, thereby establishing a radial layer of separate roving helixes;
• feeding a third set of rovings through a third pattern card for converging said third set of rovings toward said mandrel;
• gathering said third set of rovings into abutment with said second radial layer of rovings and said mandrel to establish a third longitudinal layer of rovings;
• saturating said inner veil and roving layers in resin;
• guiding an outer veil upon said third longitudinal layer of rovings;
• and,
• heating said product to cure said resin.

A linear product produced by an automated pultrusion method, said method comprising the steps of:

• providing a plurality of roving sources from a creel bank comprising a plurality of spools;
• forming and drawing the product through the process about and upon an elongated, rigid mandrel;
• guiding an inner veil upon said mandrel;
• continuously feeding a first set of rovings through a first pattern card for converging said first set of rovings toward said mandrel;
• gathering said first set of rovings into abutment with said mandrel and said inner veil to establish a first longitudinal layer of rovings;
• spirally winding rovings radially about said first longitudinal layer of rovings and said mandrel in a first radial direction relative to said mandrel, thereby establishing a first radial layer of separate roving helixes;
• continuously feeding a second set of rovings through a second pattern card for converging said second set of rovings toward said mandrel;
• gathering said second set of rovings into abutment with said first radial layer of rovings and said mandrel to establish a second longitudinal layer of rovings;
• spirally winding rovings radially about said second longitudinal layer of rovings and said mandrel in a second, opposite radial direction relative to said mandrel, thereby establishing a radial layer of separate roving helixes;
• feeding a third set of rovings through a third pattern card for converging said third set of rovings toward said mandrel;
• gathering said third set of rovings into abutment with said second radial layer of rovings and said mandrel to establish a third longitudinal layer of rovings;
• wherein all of said winding steps are synchronized and the speed of said drawing step is synchronized with the radial speed of said winding steps;
• saturating said inner veil and roving layers in resin by injecting resin thereon;
• guiding an outer veil upon said third longitudinal layer of rovings;
• and,
• heating said product to cure said resin.