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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 21, 1998
Richard A Kaiser, Hartland, WI (US);
Scott S McLain, Wind Lake, WI (US);
Jim D Schneider, Pewaukee, WI (US);
Lake Country Manufacturing Inc., Hartland, WI (US);
Abstract
A polymeric foam finishing pad is made by attaching a dense array of individual foam members to a suitable support substrate. The foam members are individually inserted into a support substrate and attached to the substrate by an adhesive layer. When making the foam pad, each of the foam members is preferably folded and inserted into a preformed opening contained in the support substrate, such that each foam member forms a pair of fingers that extend from the front face of the support substrate. The outer tip of each foam finger may include a pair of slits extending into the foam member from the outer tip.