Patent ID: 9387918
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: B64C,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A frame for reinforcing a hull of a craft, the frame comprising: at least one frame element shaped in accordance with a curvature of the hull and having recesses formed therein at a side facing the hull for a passage of longitudinal beams of the craft, said frame element further having a flange facing the hull, said flange disposed in a region of at least one of said recesses and extending along continuously around an outline of said one recess uninterrupted, said frame element integrally formed from a fiber-reinforced plastic composite material and said recesses configured as integral pockets of said frame element, said frame element produced from at least one of interwoven fibers or interwoven bundles of fibers and a matrix made of plastic, wherein a number of fibers of said fiber-reinforced plastic composite material is substantially constant along a length of said frame element and a packing density of said fibers is increased in a region of said recess as compared to a region without said recess.