Appeal No. 97-0695 Application No. 08/273,466 APPENDIX 3. A method of fabricating a plurality of handles each adapted to have a corresponding one handle end inserted in a corresponding one pad end of a plurality of pads including the steps of: forming a plurality of strips shaped as right, regular parallelopipeds having dimensions of at least one inch by one-eighth of an inch by one-thirty-second of an inch from an autoclavable material; and forming barbs on the one handle end of each of said strips whereby said handles are formed with barbs on each of said one handle ends. 7. A method of fabricating a plurality of handles in accordance with claim 3 wherein each of said one handle end of said plurality of said handles has four corners and at least four barbs are formed in each of the four corners of each handle. 1Page: Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007