Uranit Gmbh

Uranit, Uran-isotopentrennungs-gesellschaft M.b.h.

Klaus Rode

Bruno Sartor

Heinz Kornbichler

An apparatus for making a rotationally symmetrical body formed of crisscross-wound layers includes a winding mandrel, a carriage reciprocating along the mandrel and a thread laying assembly mounted on the carriage. The assembly has a pivotal device, and four thread laying rollers mounted for rotation on the pivotal device. The shafts of the rollers extend parallel to one another and are situated at points of an imaginary equilateral trapezoid having a plane perpendicular to the roller shafts. Each roller has a plurality of circumferential grooves for simultaneously guiding and depositing on the mandrel a plurality of parallel-running threads. Two rollers are situated on one side of the pivot axis of the pivotal device and form a first roller pair and two rollers are situated on an opposite side of the pivot axis and form a second roller pair. Within each roller pair the grooves of the rollers are in alignment with one another, while the grooves of the first roller pair are offset with respect to the grooves of the second roller pair by one half of the center-to-center distance between adjoining grooves. Further, supplying rollers for guiding threads to the first and second roller pairs are provided.

Apparatus for making crisscross-wound layers to form wound bodies

In the production of fiber reinforced axially symmetrical wound bodies each of predetermined length, by winding fibers or strands of fibers saturated with a hardenable plastic onto a mandrel, alternating layers of circumferential windings and layers with criss-cross windings being placed on top of one another, and, after hardening of the plastic, removing the mandrel, the winding is carried out to simultaneously produce a plurality of identical wound bodies axially juxtaposed on the mandrel by the steps of: winding at least one circumferential layer by attaching a plurality of fibers or strands corresponding to the number of bodies to be wound at axially spaced locations along the mandrel and winding all of the fibers or strands simultaneously on the mandrel with mutual axial spacings approximately corresponding to, or somewhat greater than, the length of each wound body; winding at least one criss-cross winding layer by attaching at least one fiber or strand to the mandrel and winding the fiber or strand over the combined length of the juxtaposed layers of circumferential windings along the mandrel; and dividing the completed wound layers into individual sections forming the respective wound bodies which are then removed from the mandrel.

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Julich, Germany

Klaus Rode