Mark A Liddiard

US Patent:

20060260106, Nov 23, 2006

Filed:

Jan 3, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/322645

Inventors:

Ronald Roser - Salt Lake City UT, US
David Rasmussen - Sandy UT, US
Trond Pedersen - Murray UT, US
Scott Cutler - Sandy UT, US
Ken Warfield - Holladay UT, US
Dennis Hegerhorst - Nampa ID, US
Paul Merrill - Bountiful UT, US
Kirk Samowitz - South Jordan UT, US
Mark Liddiard - Sandy UT, US
Curtis Veit - Salt Lake City UT, US

Assignee:

Zoltek Companies, Inc. - St. Louis MO

International Classification:

D02J 1/18

US Classification:

028282000

Abstract:

A large-tow fiber placement system having (1) a creel, (2) a tow feeding mechanism, (3) a tow cutting mechanism, and (4) a tow consolidation system, wherein the creel shuttles a spool to maintain a substantially fixed exit path of a large-tow exiting the spool, the tow feeding mechanism has a head that is cooled by a fluid to control integrity of the large-tow and the tow consolidation system has interlocking shoes to provide a continuous application of the head is disclosed.