Method for repairing a key and repaired key
OwnerJohn C. Parenti, John S. Mierzejewskiinventors
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Abstract
A method for repairing the head of a “chip key” comprising the steps of providing a section of polyolefin tubing, forming the tubing to a blank slightly larger than the key head with a grommet defining a key ring hole, and assembling the blank about the key head and heat shrinking the same into tight engagement with the key head.
Claims10
A method for repairing the head of a key comprising the steps of assembling the parts of the head if separated as nearly as possible to the original configuration of the head, providing a small section of heat shrinkable polyolefin tubing having a length approximately equal to the dimension of the head measured from the junction of the shank of the key with the bottom of the head to the top of the head, inserting the key head telescopically into the interior of the tubing section, and heat shrinking the tubing section at a temperature between two (2) and three (3) hundred degrees Fahrenheit until the tubing shrinks tightly about the key head and secures any separate parts thereof tightly together.
A repaired key head comprising an original key head with parts assembled in their original configuration and a section of heat shrinkable tubing subsequent to the application of heat tightly enveloping the assembled parts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.