Abstract: Process for manufacturing an assembly made of a composite material and wing and stabilizing element obtained by this process. The junction zone for a part (P) made of a composite material comprising two parts (A1, A2) in which the principal directions intersect at a non-singular angle, is made in a single operation by continuous lay-up. The 0° directions of the lay-up coordinate systems (R1, R2) of the parts (A1, A2) are oriented such that these directions make an angle of close to 180°??°, where ±?° represents the other directions of the lay-up coordinate systems (R1, R2). Thus, the layers of fibers oriented at 0° in one of the coordinate systems correspond approximately to a lay-up direction of ±?° in the other coordinate system.

Abstract: There is disclosed a spiral-wound membrane module design for various membrane filtration techniques having significantly reduced fluid flow resistance in the feed stream path. Specifically, the inventive spiral-wound membrane module is designed having a corrugated entrance and exit spacers together over less than 10% of the length of the spiral wound module and a stiffener sheet wound to provide for uniform feed channel gap width.

Abstract: An automatic reel changer (10) for a tape-and-reel handler is formed to automatically insert a carrier tape (15) from the tape-and-reel handler into an empty receiving reel (80), wind the carrier tape (15) onto the receiving reel (80), and apply a securing device to keep the carrier tape (15) fixedly attached to the receiving reel (80). The automatic reel changer (10) then removes the full receiving reel (80) and replaces it with another empty receiving reel (81) and continues the process.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing wired circuit board that enables a wired circuit board of high quality to be manufactured without changing in dimension of the wired circuit board substantially. In this method, the wired circuit board is wound in layers in the winding process in such a manner that after an uncured thermosetting resin layer is formed on the wired circuit board in the resin layer forming process, a right-side spacer and a left-side spacer are disposed on the already wound wired circuit board at both widthwise ends thereof and also an upper spacer is disposed on the right-side spacer and the left-side spacer so as to cover a widthwise area of the wired circuit board, so that the right-side spacer, the left-side spacer and the upper spacer are positioned between the layers of the wired circuit board when wound. Thereafter, the wired circuit board wound in the rolled state is heated as it is, to cure the uncured thermosetting resin layer in the curing process.

Abstract: A flexible pipe in which a layer of wound tape extends adjacent a surface of a tubular member to limit or prevent molecular migration through the tubular member.

Abstract: A stay-in-place method of manufacturing a composite form that is used to provide a strong and durable concrete structure. The form includes a composite shell having an inner wall surface defining an enclosure into which concrete may be poured and allowed to harden. The composite shell may be made of one or several layers of fabric having a resin matrix impregnated therein. The concrete hardens to form a concrete core within the enclosure and a liner is affixed to the inner wall surface of the composite shell to protect the composite shell from alkalinity in the concrete core. The liner includes at least one sheet of a water-impermeable material to protect the concrete core from water and other corrosive elements. The fabric layers are selected such that the fibers elongate as the concrete is poured into the enclosure due to a weight of the concrete and partially shrink back to compensate for shrinkage of the concrete as the concrete dries to form the concrete core.

Abstract: A paper web reeled on a reeling core is affected to form a reel at least by means of the torque of a reeling cylinder and the nip load, wherein in connection with the reel change a new reeling core is brought in nip contact with the reeling cylinder above the reeling cylinder, together with a change device especially a so-called gooseneck. During the reel change an adhesive or the like is applied between the layers of the paper web in connection with the cutting of the paper web by means of a cutting device. The adhesive or the like is applied on the surface of the reel that is being formed by means of a member applying the adhesive.

Abstract: The invention provides a manufacturing method of a good laminate packaging which does not have the delamination between layers and a method of manufacturing of the laminate for packaging containing a barrier layer such as an aluminum foil and, fibrous carrier layer, etc. The deoxidant of vitamin E, ascorbic acid or its derivative is adhered/attached, to the inside of a barrier layer web, the barrier layer is temporarily rolled round by the reel shape, kept, and laminated by the extrusion lamination by the molten polyolefin.

Abstract: A friction material for a liquid medium, according to the invention, consists of a fibre mat impregnated with a thermosetting resin, the fibres having a length of at least 12 mm. The method of producing such a material includes the following steps: a) a mixture of fibres of the same nature or of different natures is produced in a mixer; b) the mixture is carded to form a card web; c) the card web is lapped; d) the lap thus formed is needled; e) the needled mat is impregnated with a thermosetting resin.

Abstract: An undercritical drive shaft and a method of producing the undercritical drive shaft from fiber composite material is disclosed. The drive shaft, which is produced of fiber composite material and is to be used as an undercritically operating shaft, has a high damage tolerance with respect to resistance to torsion and the manufacturing process requires lower expenditures. For the drive shaft, the fiber composite material consists of several successively individually wound-up webs of prepreg. For the method of producing the drive shaft from fiber composite material, as the fiber material, the web-shaped prepreg is wound onto the winding spindle and this prepreg is deaerated and simultaneously compressed by the winding-on of a thermoplastic woven band which is prestressed in a defined manner. The thermoplastic woven band is unwound again and additional prepreg layers are then wound up which are then deaerated and compressed in the same manner by a thermoplastic woven band.

Abstract: A friction disk suitable for running as an assembly of interleaved disks in a transmission is disclosed. A rigid metallic core on backing plate is covered on one or both sides with a wafer of non-woven yarn wherein the yarn comprises a continuous wound length of heat resistant yarn in a non-overlapping fashion. The yarn is bonded to the core by a thermosetting resin, which is impregnated into the yarn by less than 80% by weight to preserve porosity and allowing penetration of the cooling transmission fluid. The yarn preferably is composed of carbon fibers or filaments.

Abstract: A composite material collation machine and associated method for fiber tape placement and consolidation at a relatively high rate are provided. The composite material collation machine includes a laser diode array for heating at least one fiber tape, a compaction device for pressing the fiber tape against a workpiece, an inspection system for monitoring the fiber tape, and a controller. The inspection system produces an output representative of at least one characteristic of the fiber tape, and the controller is capable of receiving the output and, based on the output, automatically altering at least one system parameter defining an operational characteristic of the composite material collation machine.

Abstract: There is provided a paperboard tube structure with an intermediate ply having cut-and-folded tabs to increase the effective thickness of the intermediate ply. The paperboard tube includes a plurality of paperboard plies wrapped one atop another about an axis with the intermediate ply positioned between an interior paperboard ply and an exterior paperboard ply. A plurality of cut-and-folded tabs are each created by a nonlinear incision in the intermediate ply that extends from a first endpoint to a second endpoint thereby creating a folding axis along a line from the first endpoint to the second endpoint. The tab is folded about the folding axis to overlie a region of the intermediate ply adjacent the folding axis. The tabs increase the effective thickness of the wall of the paperboard tube.

Abstract: An electrical cable of the present invention comprises a plurality of spaced, parallel flat conductors. Each of the plurality of flat conductors was previously integral with each immediately adjacent flat conductor. A dielectric material is holds the conductors in the spaced, parallel relationship. The dielectric material can be a polymer film, a nonwoven, or other polymer materials such as PTFE, or expanded PTFE. The cable of the present invention is made by providing first and second webs of dielectric materials and a third sheet of conductive material. The first and second web materials are bonded to the third sheet of conductive material in a face-to-face layered relationship thereby forming a bonded laminate. The bonded laminate is then incrementally stretched to separate the sheet of conductive material in to spaced, parallel flat conductors.

Abstract: A melt-infiltrated, fiber-reinforced composite ceramic containing high-temperature-resistant fibers, in particular fibers based on Si/C/B/N, which are reaction-bonded to a matrix based on Si and also a process for producing such a composite ceramic are described. The silicon melt which is used for the melt infiltration contains additions of iron, chromium, titanium, molybdenum, nickel or aluminum, with particular preference being given to a silicon melt containing from about 5 to 50% by weight of iron and from about 1 to 10% by weight of chromium. This gives a simplified production process compared with conventional silicon melt infiltration and improved properties of the composite ceramic (FIG. 1).

Abstract: A method for reel-type packaging flexible printed circuit boards (FPCs) is disclosed. Firstly, a flexible plate having a plurality of FPC patterns is cut out to form several bar-like materials, wherein each of the bar-like materials has a plurality of aligned FPCs thereon. Subsequently, the bar-like materials are wound onto a reel one by one to form a reel-type package so as to prevent the FPCs from crumpling, curving and deforming when suffering an external force.

Abstract: Apparatus for the application of adhesive to one side of a running web of tipping paper for use in filter cigarete makers has a single source of adhesive or two or more sources containing identical or different adhesives, and one or more conduits leading from the source(s) to one or more nozzles which applies or apply one or more films of a single adhesive or of different adhesives to selected portions of the one side of the web. The rate of admission of adhesive(s) to the nozzle(s), including interruption and restarting of admission of adhesive(s), is regulated by one or more valves each having a body receiving a rotary valving element provided with one or more peripheral projections and/or recesses serving to regulate the rate of flow of adhesive toward the single nozzle or the respective nozzles. The rotary elements of two or more valves can constitute disc-shaped sections of a single rotor confined in a valve body common to all valves.

Abstract: A finished PTFE film is produced by first preparing an extruded, dried, unsintered and unexpanded PTFE feed film, and then reducing the thickness of the feed film by more than 20% by passing it with back tension through a roll nip.

Abstract: A packaging material laminate comprises at least a printing ink outer layer, an aluminium vapor deposition film layer containing linear low density polyethylene obtained by a polymerization using metallocene catalyst, a polyethylene-extrusion lamination layer, and a carrier layer of paper or paper substitution material.

Abstract: A thermal insulating device, and process for making it, are presented. The inventive thermal insulating device is formed of a cylindrically shaped shell comprising multiple layers of a continuous spiral wound anisotropic flexible graphite sheet, the layers of spiral wound graphite sheet being separated by and bonded to a cured resin.

Abstract: A golf club shaft is 35-50 percent lighter than a conventional shaft while maintaining the outer diameter and structural characteristics of conventional shafts. The shaft has at least four layers of fiber reinforced material. The fiber reinforced layers are from innermost to outermost: a first angled layer; a first straight layer; a second angled layer; and a second straight layer. The angled layers are formed by bonding together two materials, each with fibers aligned in different directions. The second angled layer maintains the proper strength and rigidity of the shaft while keeping the shaft as light weight as possible. Aligning the second layer's fibers at an angle of 35-75 degrees with respect to the longitudinal direction of the shaft ensures proper weight and strength characteristics of the shaft. The resulting shaft is light-weight and exhibits the flexural rigidity, flexural strength, torsional rigidity, torsional strength, and crushing strength of conventional shafts.

Abstract: Spirally wound paper products are disclosed having desirable roll firmness characteristics and softness properties. The rolled products can be made from a single ply tissue web formed according to various processes.

Abstract: A moistureproof multilayer film, including a composite film having a non-moisture absorbing resin layer and a vapor deposited film of an inorganic oxide or a metal formed on at least one side of the non-moisture absorbing resin layer, the multilayer film having such a layer structure where the vapor deposited film surface of the composite film is laminated through an adhesive layer on a vapor deposited film surface of another composite film or a surface of another non-moisture absorbing resin layer, wherein a total number (n) of the deposited films laminated adjacent to the adhesive layer is 2 to 8, and wherein a moisture permeabihty (W; unit: g/m2.day) as measured under conditions of a temperature of 40° C. and a relative humidity of 100% satisfies a relation represented by equation W≦(1/n)×0.20, and a method for producing the moistureproof multilayer film including heat-treating the multilayer film in a hot dry atmosphere having a temperature lower than 140° C. but not lower than 55° C.

Abstract: The present invention provides for a method of manufacturing a preform for a RTM molding process that will increase both the handling capability of the preform and the final part quality. The invention consists of applying a patterned discontinuous layer of liquid resin over at least one side of a layer of reinforcing fibers. The resin film can consist of a homogeneous liquid, an aqueous dispersion or a melted resin applied at an elevated temperature. In one embodiment, there is present a roller having a patterned surface. Liquid resin is applied to the surface of the patterned roller via a second roller. The layer of reinforcing fibers is passed by the roller in such a fashion that the resin from the pattern on the surface of the roller is transferred to the layer of reinforcing fibers. The contact of the roller with the layer of reinforcing fibers is sufficient to force some of the resin into the fibers themselves.

Abstract: A process for producing cards is provided, which can avoid exposure, on card surface, of unevennesses of components such as IC chips, capacitors and antenna coils mounted or formed on a mount substrate. This process comprises the steps of continuously feeding a mount substrate and simultaneously feeding a pair of sheet members on both surface sides of the mount substrate in such a manner that the mount substrate is interposed between the pair of sheet members; feeding an adhesive in fluid condition between each of the surfaces of the mount substrate and the sheet member opposite thereto; and regulating a distance between the pair of sheet members into a constant spacing and hardening the adhesive.

Abstract: In a method of making an arrow shaft, a fabric section is placed around a hollow tubular core, and is affixed thereto. The core may include carbon therein. A adhesive or protective composition, associated with the fabric, is cured to adhere the fabric to the core. The adhesive may be impregnated into the fabric prior to its placement on the core, or may be applied to the fabric by methods such as spraying, dipping, brushing, or powder coating. The shaft may be treated to make the exterior surface smooth after curing. A reinforced archery arrow shaft made by the method includes a tubular core and an attached fabric sleeve covering the core. The fabric is wrapped around and affixed to the core. The sleeve fabric may have a decorative design or pattern on the exterior surface thereof. Optionally, accessories may be attached to the arrow shaft to form an arrow.

Abstract: The invention relates to a roll constituted by a plurality of tissue paper sheets each having a specific surface weight between 10 and 40 g/m2 and exhibiting thick zones (4) separated over at least 90% of their periphery by thinner zones (5). According to the invention, and as regards at least the outermost turns of the roll, the thick zones are at least partly superposed one on the other in a way to add the thicknesses cumulatively and hence to create height differentials on the roll's outside. The invention also relates to a method for making a roll, wherein a strip composed of a plurality of juxtaposed tissue paper sheets exhibiting thick zones separated by thinner zones will be wound on itself. According to the invention, the winding of the roll is such that the thick zones (4) of the outermost roll turns are at least partly superposed in order to constitute a salient topography on the roll's outside.

Abstract: A method for efficiently producing a stiffened hollow structure from a first skin member, a second skin member and a stiffener each made of a fiber-reinforced composite with reduced steps, the stiffened hollow structure comprising a hollow skin portion and a stiffening portion for strengthening the hollow skin portion from the inside. The method comprises the steps of: (1) disposing the first skin member and the second skin member on the stiffener, an adhesive being provided between the stiffener and each of the first skin member and the second skin member; (2) placing a band on the outer surface of the first skin member and the second skin member; and (3) setting the adhesive while tightening the band and applying a tensile force to the first skin member and the second skin member.

Abstract: An improved hose is used to install loose fill insulation. The hose includes projections extending from an inner surface which serve to condition the insulation as it proceeds through the hose and is dispensed. In a first embodiment of the present invention, the projections are formed so as to be perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the hose. In a second embodiment of the present invention, the projections are formed so as to be angled, by an angle less then ninety (90) degrees with respect to the longitudinal axis of the hose. In a third embodiment of the present invention, the projections are formed with a serrated edge. In a fourth embodiment of the present invention, the projections are formed as part of a cap member which is disposed around the periphery of the hose.

Abstract: A easy way of utilizing the coin package will be possible ofter breaking the tape and hand pulling all the coins away from it. The total amount of coins can be veryfied before breaking the tape because a 40-45% exposure seen of the coin and its denomination.

Abstract: A process for temporarily stabilizing an extensible material while incorporating the material into a garment, or while performing any other converting process on the material. The stabilizing process includes the step of selectively bonding regions of the extensible material to provide a bonded material having restricted extensibility. The bonded material can be put through a converting process, such as winding the bonded material onto a roll, spooling the bonded material, slitting the bonded material, laminating the bonded material, or incorporating the bonded material into a garment. After the bonding material has gone through the converting process, the bonded regions can be removed from the bonded material.

Abstract: Very thin cast ceramic tape, preferably approximately 12 &mgr;m in thickness, is wrapped, preferably in a reversing spiral or helix, around a mandrel, preferably a mandrel made of steel and coated with a wax releasing agent, for so many times, preferably five or greater, as achieves a desired thickness of a tube wall, preferably about 100 &mgr;m. The green ceramic tube is then laminated in a pressure laminator, preferably a hydrostatic laminator at 3000 to 5000 psi, linking polymer chains between each ceramic layer, cross-linking polymer chains within each ceramic layer, and densifying the produced ceramic laminate tube by reducing porosity.

Abstract: An energy absorbing system is provided. The system comprises a fitting having a crack inducing surface extending radially outward in relation to an axis. An energy absorbing structural element formed by a hollow body extends along the axis and has a first end adapted to interact with the crack inducing surface of the fitting so as to radially spread the hollow body. Cracks are formed in the hollow body in response to forces applied in a direction substantially parallel to the axis which forces push the crack inducing surface against the first end. The hollow body may have layers of reinforcing flat material embedded in a matrix material and may comprise a single winding of the flat material about the axis. A number of layers of the flat material in the hollow body may be different in different areas.

Abstract: A method of making a catheter balloon or other tubular medical device or component, in which a sheet of polymeric material is wrapped on a mandrel and heated to fuse sections of the wrapped sheet together to form a tube. The mandrel has a metallic core and a jacket on an outer surface of the metallic core, and the wrapped sheet of polymeric material is heated without corroding the metallic core of the mandrel. In a presently preferred embodiment, the sheet is formed of a fluoropolymeric material, and the resulting fluoropolymeric tube forms at least a layer of a catheter balloon.

Abstract: A process for producing low-density composite components as disclosed herein involves forming a compacted and curable pre-preg into a selected level of compaction whereby voids are capable of forming in the compacted cuable pre-preg. The compacted curable pre-preg is then cured at a pressure sufficiently low to permit evolving gases to form voids in the pre-preg as the pre-preg cures into the composite article. The pre-preg is only partially debulked in the process. Rocket nozzle components can be produced with reduced densities while still exhibiting satisfactory erosion and other characteristics desired for products subject to the harsh erosive environment of a rocket motor.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing composite parts includes positioning a plurality of composite layers on an application surface formed by a plurality of tooling members and filler members on a mandrel. A part formation aid is disposed on the composite layers above each tooling member. The filler members are then removed, and the composite layers slit over the recesses. The mandrel, the tooling members, the composite layers, and the part formation aids are placed in a vacuum bag. As the bag is evacuated, each part formation aid forces the side edge of the composite layers formed by the slit around the respective tooling member, thereby forming a composite part with a desired shape, thickness, and density. In an alternate embodiment, a flanged composite panel is formed around a rectangular mandrel after positioning composite layers on an outer surface of the mandrel and an outer surface of a filler member disposed on one end of the mandrel.

Abstract: To provide an epoxy resin composition suitable as a matrix resin for fiber reinforcement, and a yarn prepreg suitable in unwindability, excellent in higher processability due to drapability, high in the tensile strength of the epoxy resin composition after curing, and high in efficiency of the strength of reinforcing fibers. A yarn prepreg, satisfying the following formulae (1) to (3): 50≦Wf≦80  (1) 20,000≦F≦100,000  (2) F/8,000≦d≦F/2,400  (3) where Wf is the content by weight of the fiber bundle (%), F is the number of filaments in the fiber bundle and d is the width of the prepreg (mm).

Abstract: A process for producing a roll of a flat web material, in which first of all a flat web is produced by a conventional method and is wound up to form a roll, and in which the end region of the flat web is bonded to the roll with a spliceable adhesive tape, without the end region of the flat web having been bonded to the roll.

Abstract: A tubular film manufacturing method includes the steps of winding a sheet film on a cylindrical member, cutting a winding end portion of the sheet film, and inserting the cylindrical member, on which the sheet film is wound, into a tubular mold member. The sheet film is molded into a tubular film by heating. In the inserting step, the cylindrical member is inserted into the tubular mold member while the winding end portion of the sheet film is pressed by an elastically deformable brush member.

Abstract: A method of making a roll of adhesive tape that comprises providing a length of tape having a leading end, a trailing end, a first side, and a second side opposite the first side, wherein the second side of the tape is at least partially covered with pressure sensitive adhesive and providing a tab having first and second opposite ends having a length between them, a first side, and a second side, wherein at least a portion of the second side of the tab is covered with pressure sensitive adhesive. The method further comprises advancing the length of tape along a tape path, positioning the leading tape end about a central tape roll axis, and circumferentially winding the length of tape about the axis until a penultimate tape layer having a circumference is wound.

Abstract: A method for making a repair to a repair site of a structure made from at least a first tube and a second tube which are joined together with welds. The method includes cleaning and preparing the at least first tube and second tube tubes at the repair site for bonding with composite repair materials. Next, fiber-reinforced polymer composite repair materials are applied to the repair site. These composite materials include at least one elongate, composite tendon strip which is placed on the at least a first tube and a second tube such that the composite tendon strip bridges at least the first tube and a second tube, and a composite strip which is wrapped around and overlays the tendon strip with additional composite strips. The invention also provides a metal structure reinforced with a composite material repair site according to the method.

Abstract: A thermal shock-resistant ceramic article and a method of manufacturing the article include alternating layers of a first material (2) comprising a fusible, particulate ceramic composition and a second material (3), typically comprising a porous, pyrolyzable material. The layered structure increases the article's work of fracture and toughness, and may lead to improved thermal shock-resistance. The method advantageously uses a sheet, film or sleeve to prepare the article for firing. The composition, thickness, and porosity of the second material (3) will affect the desired properties. The method is particularly adapted for manufacturing cylindrical articles, including stopper rods, nozzles, and pouring tubes for the metal casting industry.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of forming coreless rolls of pressure sensitive adhesive tape involves the use of a mandrel assembly having a specific circumferential tape supporting segment thereon for winding tape. The circumferential tape supporting segment has a tape engaging surface portion that, in a radial orientation, is compressible yet sufficiently stiff to support the tape as it is successively wound about the mandrel to form a tape roll, and that is sufficiently pliant to permit ready axial removal of a wound tape roll from the shaft. The innermost wrap of pressure sensitive adhesive tape about the mandrel is masked by an adhesive liner. That liner is formed from one portion of a liner/tab segment which had been applied to the tape previously, and prior to winding, the tape is severed, and the remainder of that liner/tab forms an end tab on the outermost end of the previously formed coreless tape roll.

Abstract: A tubular member for an oil application device is formed separately and is fitted in such a manner as to cover a peripheral face of a porous cylindrical oil retaining member. The tubular member for the oil application device has a multi-layer structure including an inner layer and an outermost layer. The inner layer is a fibrous layer, and the outermost layer is a porous film. The porous cylindrical oil retaining member can be easily covered with, fitted with, and removed of the member for the oil application device, which is made from a fibrous layer such as a felt or from a porous film such as a PTFE film.

Abstract: A method for forming a tubular object of a composite material involves a first step in which a composite material layer is wound around an iron bar. The iron bar and the composite material layer are then fitted into a contractible plastic covering. The composite material layer is formed into a tubular object in a vacuum chamber into which a thermal medium is introduced. The tubular object is separated from the plastic covering by an air injection between the tubular object and the plastic covering. The iron bar is finally extracted from the tubular object.

Abstract: A transparent tape roll includes a plurality of windings of tape around a central core and further includes an intermediate non-transparent divider placed mid-way between the core and the outermost winding of tape such that the transparent tape is clear to the divider. The divider is placed such that the number or windings between the outermost winding and the divider, and the innermost winding and the divider is such that reflective index of the transparent material as winding layers build up is not substantial enough to effect the clarity of the transparent tape to the divider or core causing clouding.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a process for producing a high-quality insulation for conductors or conductor bundles of electrical machines by means of spray-sintering. Unlike in the prior art, it is possible to apply internal corona-discharge protection, insulation and external corona-discharge protection to conductors or conductor bundles in which, on account of a very low level of defects in the insulation and its inherent resistance to partial discharges, it is possible to dispense with the use of winding processes using glass/mica tapes. This eliminates the need to use complex special equipment and allows the throughput times to be shortened considerably.

Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for heat sealing bags having a mandrel with protruding needles for holding the bag material when the material is wrapped around the mandrel. The mandrel has a ridge for allowing easy penetration of an upwardly angled hot blade between the two overlapping ends of the bag. An apparatus composed of three hot blades of which the two outside blades enter the bottom of the bag and expand outward contacting an inner perimeter of the bag when the middle blade moves forward. The blades then retract and the bag is then fused together by pressure bars and cut by heat trimmers.

Abstract: A press fabric is manufactured by spirally winding a strip in a plurality of non-overlapping abutting turns, and by joining each turn of the strip to that previously wound. The strip is itself a laminated structure having at least two layers attached to one another. The strip is manufactured in considerable lengths for subsequent use in manufacturing press fabrics in any length and width dimension.

Abstract: An improved container is formed by attaching plates to outer side surface areas on opposite end portions of a liner with adhesive. The liner is supported for rotation about an axis which extends through the end portions of the liner and through the plates. The liner is rotated under the influence of torque transmitted to the liner through at least one of the plates and the adhesive attaching the one plate to the liner. Flexible material, which may be strands of continuous glass fibers impregnated with a thermosetting resin, is wound around the liner. As the flexible material is wound around the liner, the flexible material is wound over the plates at the opposite end portions of the liner. The surface areas, to which the plates are attached at opposite ends of the liner, are free of openings to the interior of the liner.