Patent ID: 6913454

Claim:
An apparatus for attaching a filamentary member to a substrate having a plastic layer, said apparatus comprising: a support surface for supporting said substrate and being engageable therewith; a needle movable relatively to said support surface and adapted to penetrate said substrate to form an opening through said substrate; and a swaging tool having a swaging surface facing said support surface, said swaging tool and said support surface being movable relatively to one another so as to compress said substrate between said swaging surface and said support surface, said swaging tool having a passageway therein for receiving said filamentary member, said passageway being alignable with said opening in said substrate, said filamentary member being positionable through said passageway and into said opening, said swaging surface deforming a portion of said plastic layer around said opening so as to swage said filamentary member to said substrate.