Patent ID: 8312906

Claim:
A device for positioning stringers on a wing skin, wherein both the wing skin and the stringers comprise of a fibre-reinforced plastics material, the device comprising: a loading unit configured for aligning a stringer, a gantry robot with a gripper beam configured for removing the stringer from the loading unit, wherein a protective film can be manually removed from the stringer, and a heating station into which the stringer can be moved by means of the gripper beam, the heating station being configured for activating an adhesive by heating, wherein the gantry robot is operable for moving the stringer to a predetermined position on a wing skin, wherein the stringer can be pressed by a plurality of linear parts, wherein the adhesive can be cured, and wherein the gantry robot, the gripper beam and the loading unit are program-controllable by a numeric process computer.