Woven fiber-oriented sails and sail material therefor
First Claim
1. As an article of manufacture, a yarn-oriented sail comprised of a number of specifically woven sail panels, wherein at least a majority of said specifically woven sail panels are of a specifically woven material of fill yarns and warp yarns wherein said fill yarns in said specifically woven material are fill yarns of nonparallel orientation in each of said majority of woven sail panels and are along primary load paths specific for each of said majority of specifically woven sail panels, said majority of specifically woven sail panels extending from luff to leach for each of said majority of specifically woven sail panels in said sail when said sail is in use for its intended purpose, and where in said fill yarns within each of said majority of specifically woven sail panels are of opposite slope at said luff versus said leach in said specifically woven sail panel.
0 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
Fiber-oriented sails, including a method of manufacture, wherein woven, laminated panels of oriented fibers are of oriented fill yarns, e.g., in a woven cross-cut panel and the fill yarns, from panel to panel define load paths such as from head to clew and head to tack of a sail.
-
Citations
11 Claims
- 1. As an article of manufacture, a yarn-oriented sail comprised of a number of specifically woven sail panels, wherein at least a majority of said specifically woven sail panels are of a specifically woven material of fill yarns and warp yarns wherein said fill yarns in said specifically woven material are fill yarns of nonparallel orientation in each of said majority of woven sail panels and are along primary load paths specific for each of said majority of specifically woven sail panels, said majority of specifically woven sail panels extending from luff to leach for each of said majority of specifically woven sail panels in said sail when said sail is in use for its intended purpose, and where in said fill yarns within each of said majority of specifically woven sail panels are of opposite slope at said luff versus said leach in said specifically woven sail panel.
-
7. In a method for constructing a sail of yarn-oriented sail panels, the steps comprising:
-
weaving a series of sail panels, each sail panel being specific for said sail, wherein fill yarns in each sail panel are oriented along principal load paths for each of said sail panels when each of said sail panels is incorporated in said sail;
laminating said series of sail panels sail with at least one film or a yarn reinforced film; and
assembling into a sail said series of sail panels by broad seaming each of said sail panels being specific for said sail, wherein woven fill yarns in said panels being specific for said sail follow principal load paths in said series of sail panels from sail panel to sail panel in said sail. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10)
-
-
11. As an article of manufacture, a yarn-oriented structural sail of triangular shape comprised of a number of panels, wherein at least a majority of said panels are of a specifically woven material for each of said majority of panels;
- said majority of panels are across said sail from luff to leach;
said majority of panels include fill yarns in said specifically woven material for each of said majority of panels and said fill yarns are non-parallel and are oriented in each of said panels along primary load path from panel to panel;
wherein said fill yarns are primary structural members and are specific for each of said panels in said sail when said sail is in use for its intended purpose; and
wherein warp yarns in said majority of panels comprise secondary structural members.
- said majority of panels are across said sail from luff to leach;
Specification