Protective membrane for reconfiguring a workpiece
AssigneeSciMed Life Systems, Inc.
InventorDavid McMorrow
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Abstract
A method of protecting the coating on a reconfigurable coated workpiece having a first end and a second end is provided in one embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment includes providing an encasing hollow deformable membrane, positioning the first end of the reconfigurable coated workpiece adjacent to an entrance orifice of the membrane, enlarging the entrance orifice and the inside cavity of the membrane, inserting the reconfigurable coated workpiece into the enlarged entrance orifice and into the inside cavity and decreasing the size of the inside cavity of the membrane until an inside surface of the cavity contacts the coating of the workpiece.
Claims24
A method of protecting the coating on a reconfigurable coated workpiece having a first end and a second end, the method comprising:
- providing an encasing hollow deformable membrane, the membrane having an entrance orifice, the membrane having an inside cavity;
- positioning the first end of the reconfigurable coated workpiece adjacent to the entrance orifice of the membrane;
- enlarging the entrance orifice and the inside cavity of the membrane;
- inserting the reconfigurable coated workpiece into the enlarged entrance orifice and into the inside cavity;
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- decreasing the size of the inside cavity until an inside surface of the inside cavity contacts the coating of the workpiece.
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