Patent ID: 8336596

Claim:
A device for fabricating a high aspect ratio composite article, the device comprising: a generally straight line of material dispensers movable relative to a structure having a work surface datum, each material dispenser operable for applying strip material to the work surface datum along a predetermined axis; the line including at least a first material dispenser, at least a second material dispenser in-line with the first material dispenser, and a plurality of rotatable parallel material dispensers each oriented substantially parallel with each of the other rotatable parallel dispensers at an angle non-parallel to the line, the parallel material dispensers disposed generally between and non-parallel to the first and second in-line material dispensers; the dispensers translatable together in file to apply strip material, the in-line dispensers individually operable to apply strip material to the work surface datum along the same predetermined axis, in one direction and then the opposite direction; and the parallel material dispensers each rotatable about a vertical axis corresponding to the dispenser, the parallel material dispensers translatable relative to the line to apply strip material along predetermined parallel axes that are not parallel to strips applied by the first and second in-line material dispensers.