CONTINUOUS DEBULKING SYSTEMS

摘要

Continuous debulking systems including in combination a spool (10) for providing a fabric (12), a heating apparatus (16) for heating the fabric (12) as the fabric (12) is unrolled from the spool (10) to produce a heated fabric (18), a composite structure forming tool (14) for wrapping the heated fabric (18) thereabout, a resin applicator (26) for applying resin to the heated fabric (18) as the heated fabric (18) is wrapped about the composite structure forming tool (14) to produce a resin rich fabric surface (28) to which a subsequent ply of heated fabric (18) is applied to produce an impregnated composite material (30), and a pressure roller (24) for concurrently debulking and cooling the impregnated composite material (30) to produce a composite structure preform (32).