Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture – Surface bonding means and/or assembly means therefor – With work feeding or handling means
Patent
1987-10-08
1990-04-10
Lesmes, George F.
Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
Surface bonding means and/or assembly means therefor
With work feeding or handling means
156577, B32B 3100
Patent
active
049157710
ABSTRACT:
A segmented tape shoe for pressing tape into place along a predetermined path on a contoured lay-down surface. The tape shoe includes a plurality of tape shoe segments independently held in a close widthwise array by a shoe body. Each of the tape shoe segments has a substantially uniform width and a longitudinal cross section that is transversely urgeable against the composite tape. In one embodiment, each of the tape shoe segments is independently urgeable by pneumatic pressure. In another embodiment, the tape shoe segments can have a resilient layer covered by a low-friction skin.
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Hulstrom Elmer R.
O'Brien Kevin D.
Davis J.
Lesmes George F.
The Boeing Company
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