Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes – With step of making mold or mold shaping – per se
Patent
1997-03-28
1998-12-08
Silbaugh, Jan H.
Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes
With step of making mold or mold shaping, per se
264 401, 249155, 425182, 425DIG30, 425DIG44, B29C 3340, B28B 702
Patent
active
058464646
ABSTRACT:
A method of forming composite parts that consist of the steps of generating a part design in a computer graphics system, positioning an array of rubber blocks having an array of apertures with slidable pins therein and locking the rubber blocks together on a servo drive mechanism forming a tooling fixture. The array of pins has a flexible face sheet connected to them such that the array of pins is adjusted to form the face sheet to approximate the contour of the composited part to be manufactured. The tooling module is then removed from the base servo drive mechanism and used as a mold in an autoclave for cutting composite materials.
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Hudson Ben
Mason Suzanne E.
McDonnell Douglas Corporation
Peoples, Jr. Veo
Silbaugh Jan H.
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