Patent ID: 7507446

Claim:
A process for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced plastic building component comprised of a link and at least one flange that extends in a longitudinal direction using textile blanks as starting material comprising: positioning, clamping in, and initially sewing-up at least two layers of textile blanks in order to fix the layers into place relative to one another and realize a preform, and infiltrating the preform with resin in order to manufacture the plastic building component, wherein, following initially sewing-up the at least two layers of textile blanks, an end area of the at least two layers that extends in the longitudinal direction is turned up by a predetermined angle in order to create the flange, and wherein the turned up end area is applied to a linearly extending contact surface of a form element, an area of the link is fixed in place relative to the turned up end area in a sewing material holder, and the layers are sewed up in at least one sewing window in the sewing material holder.