Patent ID: 7396496

Claim:
Method for fabrication of a reinforcement element ( 19 , 28 ) for concrete, comprising: a bundling step of bundling on the order of at least 1,000 single, continuous fibers into a fiber bundle ( 10 ); an impregnation step of passing the thus-formed fiber bundle through a bath containing a liquid plastic-based matrix for impregnation to form a non-cured, wet fiber bundle; an adhering step, after said impregnation ( 3 ) step and prior to any curing ( 17 ), of pulling the non-cured, wet fiber bundle through a reservoir of particle-shaped material in a particle-shaped material bath so that the wet fiber bundle is brought to cooperate with the particle-shaped material ( 15 , 25 ) by pulling up the wet fiber bundle through a hole ( 13 ) in a bottom of a container ( 12 ) containing the particle-shaped material ( 15 ), which particle-shaped material is adhered to the surface of the wet fiber bundle, mainly without coming in between the single fibers, to form a particle adhered fiber bundle with the particle-shaped material adhered on the surface; and a curing step of curing the particle-shaped material adhered on the surface of the fiber bundle so the particle-shaped material are fixed to the surface by the curing, for creation of a reinforcement element ( 19 , 28 ).