Moldable handle adapter

Abstract

A handle adapter for hand molding around an existing handle and constructed in a manner enabling the user to shape the external surface of the adapter to conform to the grip of the user's hand. The material to be molded is contained in a pouch having flexible walls and end closures. The size of the pouch is such that the total volume which it could contain is much larger than the volume of the moldable material therein. One half of the pouch has a cross-sectional area smaller than the cross-sectional area of the other half, whereby the smaller cross-section half of the pouch can be pushed inside the larger cross-section half of the pouch and the material therebetween becomes trapped between two concentrically positioned flexible walls. When the walls of the smaller half pouch are supported by a solid structure, the moldable material then envelops such structure. When pressure is applied externally preferentially at certain locations on the walls of the larger half pouch, the trapped moldable material has no way to escape and is forced to rearrange its shape to match the external contour imposed on the outer wall on which such pressure is being applied. The moldable material is then caused to harden while the pressure remains applied. This results in obtaining a molded external surface which thus matches the configuration of the means by which the pressure was externally applied.

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