Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture – Methods – Surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
Patent
1988-05-17
1990-03-20
Ball, Michael W.
Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
Methods
Surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
156185, 156361, 156425, 156429, B32B 3100
Patent
active
049098802
ABSTRACT:
Method and apparatus for winding a tape smoothly onto an irregularly shaped mandrel or the like, including ends, characterized by tape storage and unreeling of packaged reels of tape to be wound smoothly onto the mandrel, mandrel rotational motor and gearing supporting and rotating the mandrel; delivery head roller for winding the tape onto the mandrel, a creel carrying the tape reel assembly, a creel rotating means adapted to rotate the creel to desired positions, an in-feed means carrying the creel and adapted to traverse normal to the mandrel, a traversing carriage carrying the in-feed means and adapted to traverse longitudinally of the mandrel; a controller for effecting movement of all the machines elements. The roller is freely rotatable and is pivotally mounted such that when moved longitudinally of the mandrel in both directions with the tape passing over it, the tape is wound smoothly onto the mandrel. The method of winding the tape smoothly onto the mandrel comprises employing the foregoing and unwinding the tape from the reel and supplying it untwisted to the freely pivotal head roller under the desired tension while following the envelope of the mandrel and while moving in both directions along the mandrel and rotating the mandrel such that the tape is wound smoothly onto the mandrel in a true helical pattern yielding complete coverage. Also disclosed are preferred embodiments.
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Campbell James H.
Kittelson Jeff L.
Aftergut Jeff H.
Ball Michael W.
Fails James C.
General Dynamics Corporation
Schurman Charles E.
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