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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2017
Applicant:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Inventors:
Daniel David Bloch, St. Peters, MO (US);
Camille Doristine Carter, St. Louis, MO (US);
Nicole Renee Williams, O'Fallon, MO (US);
Samuel J. Easley, St. Peters, MO (US);
Eric E. Moyes, Belleville, IL (US);
Assignee:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25B 11/00 (2006.01); B26D 7/01 (2006.01); B23Q 3/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B26D 7/018 (2013.01); B23Q 3/088 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vacuum table for securing a sheet of material. The vacuum table includes a top plate that is porous, a perimeter vacuum chamber disposed beneath a perimeter of the top plate, and interior vacuum chambers bound by the perimeter vacuum chamber and disposed beneath a target area of the top plate that is inside the perimeter of the top plate.