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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2003
Applicant:
John W. Schaefer, Burton, MI (US);
Inventor:
John W. Schaefer, Burton, MI (US);
Assignee:
Contour Fabricators, Inc., Fenton, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 3/06 (2006.01); C08F 2/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A cushioning and positioning pad has a body formed from superposed layers of resiliently compressible foam material and a reinforcing sheet embedded between adjacent layers. The reinforcing sheet is of such stiffness as to resist contraction along its length and width dimensions, but is resiliently bendable in response to the application of a force along its thickness dimension. The reinforcing sheet resists undesirable contraction lengthwise and widthwise of the pad when the latter is encapsulated in a curable coating of material which shrinks as it cures.