Abstract: A continuous fully mechanized fabrication of structural components from layered tape sections, for example from fiber composite material, is possible with an apparatus comprising a cutting means with at least one support plate which is movable forward and backward alongside a moving starting material in tape form synchronously therewith, and a depositing and stacking unit which is movable together with said cutting means and in the direction of which the support plate is pivotable and which is positionable relative to the support plate.

Abstract: In a multilayer panel comprising a core layer A with a honeycomb structure or an open-celled foam structure and at least one cover layer C made of a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic polymer, layers A and C are bonded to one another by an adhesive B which is a thermoplastic polymer.

Abstract: The method relates to the production of a string (24) for a racket, particularly a tennis racket. The string is a known string, for example a gut string or a synthetic string. The conditioning of the string on a support (1), particularly a bobbin, is effected under a traction tension and the length of the string is kept constant. Thus, the elongation of the string under the traction tension effect when winding the string on the support (1) is conveniently between 5 and 15%. The stringing of the racket with the thus conditioned string (24) should be carried out in an interval of 60 minutes, but preferably 30 minutes, from the removal time of the string from its support (1). The relaxation of the string, i.e. the decrease of tension after the stringing of the racket, is considerably smaller with a string conditioned according to the invention than with a same string which has not been conditioned. Such relaxation reduction is particularly important with a polypropylene string.

Abstract: A leaf spring of plastic material having a spring body of fiber-reinforced plastic material, which at least at one end is provided with a thickening, with an end zone (1) of the spring body increasing in its thickness towards the spring end (5'). On this thickened end zone (1), a spring eye body (6, 19, 26) is wedged up at its appropriately laminar mounting zones with the aid of clamping sleeves.For the manufacture of the plastic material leaf spring, one advantageously starts with a spring body, the end zone (1) of which exhibits plane parallel top and bottom sides (2, 3), respectively, on which coatings of a plastic mass of fiber-reinforced duromer plastic material are applied to form the aforementioned thickening.

Abstract: A method of producing a plastic leaf spring for motor vehicles comprising forming a plurality of cured duromeric plastic strips reinforced with high strength fibers aligned substantially in the direction of the maximum elongation or compression of the fibers occurring under spring load at least in essential resilient regions of the spring, the said resilient regions being said strips bonded together by an adhesive and eventually also being bonded to a second, more resilient element and/or to another element and a process for its preparation.

Abstract: A plastic leaf spring with spring-eyes at the spring-ends has a spring-eye section (1) or a spring-eye body (15, 28) of fiber-reinforced plastic, with the spring-eye section (1) integrated in the leaf spring body or the spring-eye body (15, 28) manufactured separately from it. The spring-eye section (1) or spring-eye body (15, 28) each contain a layer (2, 16, 29) of essentially constant thickness with a center section (4, 18, 31) wrapping the spring-eye opening, and two connecting sections (3, 17, 32) appropriately essentially parallel to each other, with the outside surface of the layer (2, 16, 29) forming a hollow groove (13, 24, 33) at least one transition between the center section (4, 18, 31) and the connecting sections (3, 17, 32).

Abstract: A plastic leaf spring for motor vehicles comprising a plurality of cured durometic plastic strips reinforced with high strength fibers aligned substantially in the direction of the maximum elongation or compression of the fibers occurring under spring load at least in essential resilient regions of the spring, the resilient regions being the strips bonded together by an adhesive and eventually also being bonded to another element and a process for its preparation.

Abstract: In the process for producing a leaf spring which, at least in essential springy sections, is composed of a fiber-reinforced plastic material, a continuous web (9) is formed comprised of reinforcing fibers, appropriately in the form of fiber rovings or fibrous tissues, with the reinforcing fibers being appropriately impacted or impregnated with a hardenable plastic substance, whereupon intermediate layer pieces (37) are appropriately put on the continuous web (9). The continuous web (9) is then wound up in several layers (36) on a rotating pick-up device (27) into a continuous reel (35), with the intermediate layer pieces (37) arranging themselves in the continuous reel (35) between contiguous superposed continuous web layers (36); the continuous reel (35) is then placed in a mold in such a manner that it adjoins along its entire periphery the barrel-shaped contact area of the mold chamber.

Abstract: In the method for manufacturing strings, a plurality of narrow strip layers (22) of synthetic material are successively and coaxially helically wound on the cylindrical surface of a continuous core. The winding (3) thus produced is conveyed hot to a welding area (7) wherein the narrow strips (22) of synthetic material are mutually assembled by welding. The temperature of the welding area is adjusted high enough so that a welding between the narrow strips (22) takes place without substantially decreasing the breaking strength of the narrow strips (22) by such heat treatment. The appropriate materials for the narrow strips are olefines such as homopolymer polypropylene or terpolymer polypropylene-polyethylene-dienes. To reduce the tendency to flow, the material forming the narrow strips may contain a nucleation agent. The characteristics of the strings thus manufactured are similar to those of gut strings.