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Means and method of manufacturing a high strength bar

US4268561A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJun 29, 1979
Grant dateMay 19, 1981
Priority date
Expiry dateJun 29, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T428/24785
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A high strength bar and means and method of manufacture particularly suited for use as railroad crossties, planking, posts, beams, poles or the like, comprising woven fabric webs forming multiple laminations bonded by a high strength bonding agent, the fabric web laminations extending longitudinally of the bar and folded back and forth in the course of manufacture, then compressed and the bonding agent cured, the ratio of fabric to bonding agent ranging from 50% to 90%. Multiple laminations of fabric, with different weave patterns arranged to increase the strength of the bar may be applied simultaneously.

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