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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 1990
Filed:
Jan. 24, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard K Ellis, Balderstone, GB;
Duncan R Finch, Balderstone, GB;
Assignee:
British Aerospace plc, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
156292 ; 156381 ; 156499 ; 269-8 ; 269276 ;
Abstract
A method of forming composite articles from components (12, 14, 16) is described in which the components are joined by adhesive at their interfaces (18). The components have cavities (22) and the adhesive is compressed while it sets by placing magnetically attractable particulate material (20) into the cavities on one side of the interface and placing magnets (26) on the other side of the interface so that the attraction between the magnets and the particulate material compresses the adhesive. The particulate material may be removed from the cavities after the adhesive has set through apertures (24).