AUTOMATIC LOADING OF COMPOSITE TAPE USING CASSETTES

Abstract

A system for the automatic and continuous loading of composite tape into a tape-laying machine is disclosed. The system provides composite tape from a plurality of cassettes which are held in the magazine of a tape loading system. The tape loading system has a tape drive which feeds tape from a cassette in an active position to the tape-laying system in controlled amounts. The tape loading system also has a cassette transfer system which pushes a full cassette from a standby position into the active position when the cassette in the active position exhausts its supply of tape.

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35 USC §181 Secrecy Order

Inventor

• 1SAMUEL I. HAILEY

Sensitive facility: Fort Worth TX (General Dynamics/Lockheed)