US Patent 4,038,440 (1977), granted to Robert W. King of Avco Corporation, describes a method and product for making three-dimensional woven filamentary material. Filaments in the Z axis are interlaced with X and Y filament layers in close touching contact, held together by inter-yarn friction. The block is then compressed and impregnated with plastic or resin and cured into a billet that can be machined. The document includes the USPTO database printout, the claims and description, and the patent drawings of the apparatus and the impregnation setup.