Patent ID: 6155004
Filing Date: 2000-12-05
Classification: E04F,E05D,E05Y,E06B

Abstract:
A shim comprising:an elongated hard workpiece of plastic material having a generally planar, rectangular front surface and an opposite generally planar rectangular back surface, opposite side edges, opposite first and second ends, a longitudinal dimension between said first and second ends, a transverse dimension between said side edges, and a thickness dimension between the front and back surfaces, said workpiece being tapered in said thickness dimension from said first end to said second end thereby defining a thicker section adjacent to the first end and a thinner section adjacent to the second end, said workpiece having break lines extending transversely of the workpiece and spaced lengthwise thereof to divide the workpiece into transverse segments which can be broken off from the workpiece along said break lines, said plastic material and the thickness of the thinner section enabling the thinner section to be manually flexed longitudinally of the shim out of its normal coplanar relation with the thicker section and to return to said coplanar relation with no deformity and without breaking relative to the thicker section or along said break lines.