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US 6,382,217 B2Granted
Process for fabricating custom fit removable and reusable metal fingernails
OwnerWade Coker, Denise Marie-Cokerinventors
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A process for fabricating custom fit removable and reusable false metal fingernails. The steps include pouring impression material around the fingernail and nail bed and forming a negative finger impression of the fingernail and nail bed. The negative finger impression is now filled with an investment material for forming a positive investment impression of the fingernail and nail bed. An artificial plastic fingernail tip is now attached to the nail bed of the fingernail on the positive investment impression. Wax is now spread in the fingernail bed next to the cuticle for covering an area in the bed not covered by the plastic tip. One end of a wax sprue is now melted and attached to a center portion of the plastic fingernail tip. Another end of the wax sprue is inserted into a top of a rubber ring former. A metal ring with a ceramic liner in now placed on the ring former surrounding the wax sprue attached to the plastic finger tip, the fingernail pattern and the investment material are now placed inside an oven and heated up to 1200 degrees F. At this time, the plastic fingernail tip, the wax in the nail bed and the wax sprue are melted leaving a negative fingernail mold which is filled with a selected metal using a centrifugal force casting machine and forming a positive metal fingernail and metal sprue.
A process for fabricating a custom fit removable and reusable false metal fingernail for a finger of the user of the false metal fingernail, the false fingernail may be made of a precious metal as gold or silver or a non-precious metal alloy, the steps comprising:
A process for fabricating a custom fit removable and reusable false metal fingernail for a finger of the user of the false metal fingernail, the false fingernail may be made of a precious metal as gold or silver or a non-precious metal alloy, the steps comprising:
A process for fabricating a custom fit removable and reusable false metal fingernail for a finger of the user of the false metal fingernail, the false fingernail may be made of a precious metal as gold or silver or a non-precious metal alloy, the steps comprising:
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