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US4848745A
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Fiber reinforced article
Assignee: Phillips Petroleum Co
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Filing: 1986-06-04
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Granted: 1989-07-18
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Expires: 2006-06-04
Abstract
Abstract A filament winding process is disclosed for producing articles having a layer of wound helically extending fibers sandwiched between generally longitudinal fibers. The process is well adapted for use with thermoplastic resins and for producing articles having a high resistance to bending. In a preferred embodiment, there is disclosed a filament wound baseball bat formed from a thermoplastic resin, (poly(arylene sulfide).
Inventors
- 👤 John R. Bohannan
- 👤 William H. Beever
- 👤 J. Andrew Stirling
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-29 22:12
CPC Classifications
B; B29; B29C; B29C53/00; B29C53/80; B29C53/8008; B29C53/805; A; A63; A63B; A63B59/00; A63B59/50; A63B60/00; A63D; A63D9/00; A63B2102/00; A63B2102/18; A63B60/54; B29L; B29L2031/00; B29L2031/52; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S273/00; Y10S273/07; Y10S273/23; Y10T; Y10T428/00; Y10T428/24; Y10T428/24058; Y10T428/249921; Y10T428/249922; Y10T428/29; Y10T428/2913; Y10T428/2933; Y10T428/2936
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 19
Claim 1
Independent Claim
114 words
A filament wound article having a longitudinal axis, and a body portion and a neck portion positioned along the longitudinal axis, said filament wound article characterized by a laminated outer shell of layers of fiber reinforcement in the form of fiber rovings impregnated in a continuous resin matrix, said laminated outer shell being characterized by a layer of generally helically extending rovings of said fiber reinforcement which form an angle of from near 0° to near 90° with a plane normal to the longitudinal axis of the filament wound article sandwiched between at least two layers of rovings of said fiber reinforcement lying generally in planes which include the longitudinal axis of the article.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
114 words
A filament wound article having a longitudinal axis, and a body portion and a neck portion positioned along the longitudinal axis, said filament wound article characterized by a laminated outer shell of layers of fiber reinforcement in the form of fiber rovings impregnated in a continuous resin matrix, said laminated outer shell being characterized by a layer of generally helically extending rovings of said fiber reinforcement which form an angle of from near 0° to near 90° with a plane normal to the longitudinal axis of the filament wound article sandwiched between at least two layers of rovings of said fiber reinforcement lying generally in planes which include the longitudinal axis of the article.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
15 words
Article as in claim 1 further characterized by a foam core filling the outer shell.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
12 words
Article as in claim 2 wherein the resin comprises a poly(arylene sulfide).
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
33 words
Article as in claim 2 wherein the fiber reinforcement is selected from the group consisting of glass fiber, boron fiber, carbon fiber and aramid fiber and the resin matrix comprises a thermoplatic resin.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
41 words
Article as in claim 4 further characterized by generally circular cross section in a plane normal to said longitudinal axis and at least one layer of generally circumferentially extending rovings as the outermost layer of fiber reinforcement in the outer shell.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
48 words
Article as in claim 5 wherein the generally circumferentially extending rovings form an angle of near 0° with respect to a plane normal to the longitudinal axis of the article; wherein the generally longitudinally extending rovings lie generally in planes which include the longitudinal axis of the article.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
59 words
Article as in claim 6 wherein the at least one layer of generally helically extending rovings comprises rovings which cross a plane normal to the longitudinal axis of the article at about +θ° and rovings which cross the plane normal to the longitudinal axis at about -θ°, where θ is an angle of between about 20° and about 70°.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
28 words
Article as in claim 6 further characterized by at least one additional layer of longitudinally extending rovings of said fiber reinforcement in the neck portion of the article.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
33 words
Article as in claim 8 wherein the at least one additional layer of rovings of said fiber reinforcement in the neck portion does not form a substantially complete layer in the body portion.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
29 words
Article as in claim 6 further characterized by at least one additional layer of generally circumferentially extending rovings of said fiber reinforcement in the body portion of the article.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
33 words
Article as in claim 10 wherein the at least one additional layer of rovings of said fiber reinforcement in the body portion does not form a substantially complete layer in the neck portion.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
25 words
Article as in claim 6 wherein the rovings in the layer of generally helically extending rovings of said fiber reinforcement are woven or braided together.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
20 words
Article as in claim 6 wherein the core comprises a cured foam polymeric material at least partially filling the shell.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
13 words
Article as in claim 6 having an exterior surface resembling a baseball bat.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
13 words
Article as in claim 6 having an exterior surface resembling a bowling pin.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
19 words
Article as in claim 6 wherein at least a portion of the generally longitudinally extending rovings comprise carbon fiber.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
19 words
Article as in claim 6 wherein at least a portion of the generally longitudinally extending rovings comprise aramid fibers.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
25 words
Article as in claim 2 wherein the resin matrix comprises a poly(arylene sulfide) resin and the layers of fiber reinforcement comprise rovings of glass fiber.
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