Patent ID: 9592657
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: B29C,B29D,B29L,B32B,Y10T

Claim:
1. A method of making a carbon fiber tubular pole comprising the steps of: providing a tubular mandrel defining a hollow interior; sliding a carbon fiber sleeve over the tubular mandrel; sliding a fiber sleeve over the carbon fiber sleeve; providing a compression mold having a mold cavity; inserting a sheet of a release agent into the bottom of the mold cavity; saturating the sleeves with a curable resin; inserting the tubular mandrel with the carbon fiber sleeve and the fiber sleeve into the mold cavity of the compression mold upon the sheet of a release agent; wrapping a portion of the sheet of the release agent over the tubular mandrel with the carbon fiber sleeve and the fiber sleeve within the mold cavity of the compression mold; compressing the compression mold for compressing the carbon fiber sleeve and the fiber sleeve with the uncured resin against the tubular mandrel; allowing the uncured resin to cure within the mold cavity and monolithically and permanently secure the tubular mandrel and the sleeves together to form the carbon fiber tubular pole; removing the cured carbon fiber tubular pole from the mold cavity of the compression mold; and removing the sheet of the release agent from the cured carbon fiber tubular pole.