Patent ID: 8182643
Filing Date: 2012-05-22
Classification: B29C,B63B

Abstract:
1. A process for fabricating a large, multi-level composite shipboard structure, comprising: pultruding a continuous panel in a process direction in a pultrusion die assembly, the continuous panel having opposed longitudinal edges extending in the process direction, each longitudinal edge having an edge profile extending continuously in the process direction, one edge profile comprising a tapered male portion, an opposite edge profile comprising a complementary tapered female portion, the continuous panel having a width transverse to the process direction; after the panel exits the pultrusion die assembly, cutting the continuous panel across the process direction into panel sections of desired lengths, the panel sections including at least a first panel section and a second panel section each having a length of at least twenty feet in the process direction; and assembling the panel sections into a shipboard structure attached to a deck of a ship, comprising: