Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – Assembling or joining
Patent
1988-09-02
1989-11-07
Eley, Timothy V.
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
Assembling or joining
29429, 52646, B23Q 310, E04H 1218
Patent
active
048782866
ABSTRACT:
A truss structure for use in a gravity-free environment is disclosed together with methods and apparatus for constructing the same. The structure, characterized by high stiffness and a precise self-determined geometry and having a prism-form with square right cross section, is constructed from a plurality of substantially identical triangular frame elements. The truss structure may be manually constructed from a multi-row chain of interconnected elements or from a four row network of elements. The structure may also be constructed using an automatic method wherein individual frame elements are fed from four stack support and feed units to a holding fixture having a square cross section.
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"Building on Space's Potential," U.S.A. Today, Nov. 29, 1985, p. 3A.
Berard Jr. Clement A.
Dungba Vo Peter
Eley Timothy V.
General Electric Company
Smiley Raymond E.
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