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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2006
Applicant:
Mark Curtis Tingley, Hutsonville, IL (US);
Inventor:
Mark Curtis Tingley, Hutsonville, IL (US);
Assignee:
Ingersoll Machine Tools, Inc., Rockford, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 81/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus and invention are provided for accelerating an added tow to match the lay-down speed of other tows exiting a compaction roller of a fiber placement head, by driving the added tow with an add roller operatively coupled to be driven at the same peripheral speed as a feed roller having a peripheral speed matching the peripheral speed of the compaction roller.