The Boeing Company

Robert E Lee

Patrick B Stone

Paul B Diep

Richard A Skilton

Robert W Murray

Ronald Leroy McGhee

Zachary Nathaniel Stoddard

Nickolas Scott Ellerbeck

Courtney M Fix

Phillip Andrew Taylor

A system includes a mandrel contoured to define a tapering tubular shape of a workpiece cured on the mandrel and a demolding tool. The demolding tool is configured to remove the workpiece from the mandrel after the workpiece is cured on the mandrel and cut longitudinally. The demolding tool is configured to remove the workpiece from the mandrel by deforming a first end of the workpiece to at least partially disengage the first end of the workpiece from a first end of the mandrel, and subsequently, deforming a second end of the workpiece to at least partially disengage the second end of the workpiece from a second end of the mandrel. The first end of the workpiece may have a first cross-sectional area that is smaller than a second cross-sectional area of the second end of the workpiece.

Demolding

Growing community of inventors

Lake Stevens, WA, United States of America

Robert E Lee