Patent ID: 7846279

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a static control device for a media handling apparatus comprising: providing a flexible, conductive plastic carrier strip, the carrier strip having a length and first and second lateral edges; providing a plurality of bundles of electrically conductive filaments having diameters sufficiently small to induce ionization in the presence of an electrical field; providing a strand and an adhesive; providing an adhesive strip; creating a depression in one of the adhesive strip and the carrier strip; positioning the bundles in spaced relation transverse to the lateral edges of the carrier strip, with ends of the filaments extending beyond at least one of the lateral edges; applying the adhesive to the strand; placing the strand with adhesive thereon across the bundles and securing at least some of the filaments in the depression with the strand; fixing the adhesive and adhering the strand to the bundles and the carrier strip; and applying the adhesive strip over the strand and bundles on a side opposite of the carrier strip.