Machines for making laminate suitable for stress bearing materials such as sails

摘要

A method for thread laying and a thread laying machine; thread laying has been achieved by a machine that has a vacuum table and above it a gantry with a thread dispensing device on a shuttle operating in an x- and y- direction; the gantry may be fixed to a pair of carriage on the x-axis driven in unison or each of the carriages may be independently driven; curved threads as well as threads on a mold may be laid down on a substrate; typical material produced is sail material of considerable thread pattern complexity; single threads or a multiple of threads may be laid down through one thread head with an adhesive properly coating the threads; multiple thread heads as well associated apparatus such as laser cutters and the like are mounted on the gantry.