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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 1993
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1992
Robert W Foulke, San Clemente, CA (US);
Packaging Industries Group, Inc., Hyannis, MA (US);
Abstract
A foam keyboard and wrist-support and keyboard dust-cover apparatus which comprises a foldable, flat-sheet, generally rectangular, flexible foam sheet material comprised of a plurality of separate foam sections singly die cut from a foam sheet material, to form a plurality of foam sections having short, uncut foam hinges connecting each of the foam sections and adapted to be moved between a wrist-support position in front of a keyboard, with a plurality of the foam sections stackably folded on top of each other, to form a wrist-support pad, and with at least one foam section beneath the front portion of the keyboard, to retain the wrist-support keyboard pad in position, and a keyboard dust-cover protecting position, wherein the stacked, folded, foam support pad is then extended, to form a protective dust cover over the face of the keyboard, and a method of preparing a foam keyboard wrist-support and keyboard dust-cover apparatus which comprises die cutting, in a single die-cutting operation, a generally rectangular, foam-sheet section, to form the foam keyboard wrist-support and keyboard dust-cover apparatus.