Method of fabricating a tank by joining wall sections with fiber

Details Method of fabricating a tank by joining wall sections with fiber Method of fabricating a tank by joining wall sections with fiber

Filed on

1978-02-27

Date issued

1979-10-23

Examiner

Ball, Michael W.

Patent Class

Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture

SubClass

Methods

SubSubClass

Surface bonding and/or assembly therefor

Other Related Categories

52245, 52585, 156 92, 156174, 156182, 156293, B65D 702, B32B 3100

Type

Patent

Status

active

Patent number

041719999

Description

ABSTRACT:
Assembly of a fiber reinforced resin tank includes joining a plurality of prefabricted arcuate wall panel sections by elongated joiner panels extending along the vertical seams between adjacent wall sections to form the perimeter of a cylindrical tank. The wall sections have a plurality of openings adjacent the vertical sides and the joiner panels have columns of transversely spaced pairs of protrusions for coupling with the openings in adjacent panel sections. The joiner panel is able to pass circumferential hoop stress from one panel section to an adjacent panel section by providing effective clamping between the two panels through the use of continuous filament and/or geometrically oriented glass or other fibers placed into a hooked shape so the fibers extend between each pair of spaced protrusions and curve into the protrusions so the fibers extend along the protrusions. Additionally, the wall sections include criss-crossing diagonal fibers so there are crossing fibers between the openings of the wall section and the vertical edge of the wall section thereby preventing a force applied by the protrusion in the opening from tearing the wall section.

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patent: 4002261 (1977-01-01), Litchfield
patent: 4036390 (1977-07-01), Morse

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