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Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 18, 2013
Applicant:

Vestas Wind Systems A/s, Aarhus N., DK;

Inventor:

Christopher Boon, Cowes, GB;

Assignee:

Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Aarhus N., DK;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 38/18 (2006.01); B29C 70/38 (2006.01); B29C 70/30 (2006.01); F03D 1/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 38/1808 (2013.01); B29C 70/30 (2013.01); B29C 70/38 (2013.01); F03D 1/0675 (2013.01); B32B 2305/10 (2013.01); F05B 2230/30 (2013.01); Y02E 10/72 (2013.01); Y02P 70/50 (2015.11); Y10T 156/1788 (2015.01);
Abstract

A method of making a wind turbine blade having at least one pultruded strip of fibrous reinforcing material integrated with a shell of the blade is described. The method comprises the steps of: providing at a first location a feed apparatus for dispensing a pultruded strip of fibrous reinforcing material; supporting a coiled pultruded strip of fibrous reinforcing material for rotation in the feed apparatus; causing the coiled strip to rotate in the feed apparatus at the first location; and feeding a free end of the strip from the feed apparatus in a feed direction towards a second location remote from the first location. An associated feed apparatus for use in the method is also described.


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