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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 1994
Filed:
Sep. 21, 1992
Keith G Shupe, Bountiful, UT (US);
Boyd L Hatch, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Hercules Incorporated, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A delivery head is adapted for use in a fiber placement system for laying a plurality of tows, forming a band, onto a mandrel to form an irregular shaped object. The delivery head has cut and add sections and includes a plurality of pathways for guiding a respective plurality of tows from an inlet to an outlet of the delivery head. The cut and add section is provided in the form of a module which includes apparatus for selectively actuating any of a plurality of cutting elements and for selectively actuating any of a plurality of advancing devices for advancing respective ones of the tows toward the outlet of the delivery head.