Method of manufacturing a perforated laminate
AssigneeAztex, Inc.
InventorsEric Blaney, Thomas M. Fusco, Glenn A. Freitas, David Rich
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Abstract
A method of making a perforated laminate wherein a pliable perforation device having plurality of holes and plurality of perforation pins in the holes is assembled on a laminate; the pins are driven through the uncured laminate to perforate the laminate; the laminate is then staged or cured with pins in place; and the pins are then removed from the cured laminate and pushed back into the perforation device for reuse thereof.
Claims12
A method of making a perforated laminate, the method comprising:
- assembling a pliable perforation device having a plurality of holes and a plurality of discrete perforation pins slidably disposed in the holes thereof;
- placing the perforation device on a laminate to be perforated;
- driving the pins through the laminate while sliding the in the holes to perforate the laminate;
- and
- removing the pins from the laminate.
A method of making a perforated laminate using a pliable perforation device having a plurality of holes and a plurality of discrete perforation pins slidably disposed in the holes thereof, the pins slidable in one direction through the holes to perforate the laminate and back through the holes to allow the perforation device to be reused, the method comprising:
- placing a perforation device on a laminate to be perforated
- driving the pins through the laminate, to perforate the laminate while sliding the pins in the one direction through the holes;
- pushing the pins back through the holes in the perforation device until the pins are flush with one surface of the laminate;
- separating the laminate from the perforation device;
- and
- pushing the pins further back through the holes until the pins are flush with one surface of the perforation device in order to reuse the perforation device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.