Claims
- 1. An article for sealing a cavity, comprising:(a) a planar holder having first and second planar faces, for holding the article at a predetermined position within a cavity to be sealed, and (b) a sealer comprising a foamable polymer composition; the sealer having a planar face substantially coextensive with the first face of the holder and in face-to face contact therewith and further having a peripheral portion which circumscribes the holder in the plane thereof and covers the perimeter of the second face of the holder; wherein the planar holder has a through-hole across its thickness, the through-hole being filled with the foamable polymer composition of the sealer.
- 2. An article according to claim 1 wherein the through-hole is chamfered.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
The subject matter of this application is related to the subject matter of U.S. patent applications Ser. No. 08/805,387, filed Feb. 24, 1997, now abandoned; U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,979,902; 6,114,004; 5,931,474; and Ser. No. 09/249,248, filed Feb. 11, 1999, now abandoned; the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference.
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