Patent ID: 6843454

Claim:
A method of assembling a wrist rest assembly which includes a pad assembly and a base, the method comprising: forming an upper portion of the pad assembly, wherein the upper portion includes a non-liquid elastomeric polymer gel layer which is elongated longitudinally and has longitudinally extending side edges, laterally extending end edges, a top surface for supporting a user's wrist and a bottom surface, the gel layer extending between the longitudinal edges for a gel width, extending between the lateral edges for a gel length, and having a sufficient thickness between its top and bottom surfaces and a sufficient gel width to have a portion of the gel layer beneath and conforming to the user's wrist supported on the top surface thereof, and the gel layer affording motion of the top surface of the gel layer with the user's supported wrist relative to the bottom surface of the gel layer in a plane generally parallel to the bottom surface, wherein such motion allows the user's supported wrist to move in any direction in a generally circular area having a diameter of at least one-half inch; forming a lower portion of the pad assembly, wherein the lower portion has a top surface and a bottom surface, the lower portion has a width and a length generally conforming with the gel width and gel length, respectively, and the lower portion has edge sections extending along the bottom surface thereof; aligning the upper portion with the lower portion so that the top surface of the lower portion supports the bottom surface of the gel layer, and the edge sections of the lower portion extend laterally beyond the longitudinally extending side edges of the gel layer, wherein the bottom surface of the lower portion defines a bottom surface of the pad assembly; forming a base which has a generally flat support surface and has longitudinally extending edge supports projecting upwardly therefrom to a common height; and aligning the pad assembly with the base so that the support surface of the base removably supports the bottom surface of the lower portion of the pad assembly thereon, and the edge supports on the support surface project along and above the entire extent of each edge section of the lower portion.