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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2000
Gerardus Hubertus Joannes Joseph Roebroeks, Den Bommel, NL;
Structural Laminates Company, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
The invention pertains to a method for making a laminate comprising at least the following steps: placing a metal sheet on a form tool or a substrate, placing an adhesive layer on top of the first metal sheet, placing a second metal sheet on top of the adhesive layer such that at least one of the metal sheets overlaps at least one edge of the other metal sheet, applying heat and pressure to the thus obtained stack, where during the application of pressure at least one of the metal sheets is bent towards the plane of the other metal sheet. Thus, complicated structures can be optimized for a certain application and, besides, manufactured in one go using comparatively inexpensive tools.