Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Additive manufacturing apparatus
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Application No.: US15626405Application Date: 2017-06-19
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Publication No.: US10065360B2Publication Date: 2018-09-04
- Inventor: Kenneth J. Susnjara , Brian Scott Smiddy
- Applicant: Thermwood Corporation
- Applicant Address: US IN Dale
- Assignee: Thermwood Corporation
- Current Assignee: Thermwood Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US IN Dale
- Agency: Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC
- Main IPC: B29C64/227
- IPC: B29C64/227 ; B33Y30/00 ; B25J9/02 ; B25J19/00 ; B29C47/00 ; B25J5/04 ; B25J11/00 ; B25J15/00 ; B25J15/04 ; B29C47/08 ; B29C64/106 ; B29C64/112 ; B29C64/386 ; B29C64/307 ; B29C64/255 ; B29K101/12 ; B33Y50/02 ; B33Y10/00 ; B23Q5/02 ; B29K105/00 ; B29C64/00 ; B29C64/20 ; B29C64/321 ; B23Q3/155

Abstract:
A CNC machine including a worktable displaceable along y-axis, a gantry disposed along an x-axis, either fixed or displaceable along the y-axis, a carriage on such gantry displaceable along the x-axis and including a thermoplastic material extrusion conduit, a tool carrier mounted on such carriage displaceable along a z-axis, a dispersion conduit mounted on such tool carrier accommodating an applicator, means mounted on such applicator for extruding a molten bead of a thermoplastic material, a flexible hose interconnecting such molten material forming means and such applicator, a plurality of servomotors for linearly or rotationally displacing such components along or about such axes and a computer for controlling such component displacements.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170326793A1 ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2017-11-16
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