Inventors:
Theodore G. Papastavros - Weston MA
Samuel A. Alexander - Concord MA
Michael D. Benedict - Quincy MA
Vincent Cioffi - Braintree MA
Russell B. Hodgdon - Sudbury MA
Emery Richard - Lynn MA
Winslow F. Tinkham - Ocala FL
Assignee:
Ionics, Incorporated - Watertown MA
International Classification:
B29C 3108
Abstract:
This invention pertains to processes and apparatus for manufacturing supported, solid, polymeric sheets from: (I) liquids containing components reactable to polymers; and (II) one or more indefinitely long, foraminous substrates. A more or less continuous sandwich is formed of such substrate(s) and, faced on each side of the substrates as a group, film extending beyond the lateral edges of the substrate(s), the plane of the sandwich deviating from vertical by not more than about 45 degrees.