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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2017
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Christopher H. Childers, Saint Louis, MO (US);
Cori A. Jackson, Saint Louis, MO (US);
Charles Prebil, University City, MO (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A method for continuously fabricating a composite sandwich structure includes the steps of: (1) preheating a laminate to a preforming temperature above a glass transition temperature of the laminate but below or equal to a crystalline melt temperature of the laminate as the laminate is substantially continuously moved through a preheating zone, wherein the laminate comprises a first face sheet, a second face sheet and a core sandwiched between the first face sheet and the second face sheet; (2) consolidating the laminate as the laminate is substantially continuously moved through a consolidation zone in line with the preheating zone to form a continuous length of the composite sandwich structure; (3) moving the composite sandwich structure, substantially continuously, through at least one of a texturing zone and a coating zone; and (4) incrementally applying at least one of a surface texture and a surface coating to at least one surface of the composite sandwich structure.