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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2023
Applicant:
The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Inventors:
Xiaoxi Wang, Mukilteo, WA (US);
Gary Ernest Georgeson, Tacoma, WA (US);
Jonathan A. Santiago, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 70/44 (2006.01); B29C 33/40 (2006.01); B29C 35/02 (2006.01); B29C 44/34 (2006.01); B29C 44/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 70/44 (2013.01); B29C 33/40 (2013.01); B29C 35/02 (2013.01); B29C 44/3442 (2013.01); B29C 44/3461 (2013.01); B29C 44/36 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods of recovering and/or recycling expanded polymer tooling, the methods including collecting expanded polymer tooling, reducing the collected expanded polymer tooling into smaller particles, treating the reduced expanded polymer tooling in order to yield an at least partially purified recovered polymer composition, and then collecting the at least partially purified recovered polymer composition. The at least partially purified recovered polymer composition can then be used to form new expandable polymer tooling.