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Article: Thai, Japanese Inventors Develop Wig
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- November 14, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 14 -- Nagatoshi Kagami and Hitoshi Akatsuka, both of Bangkok, Thailand, and Mayumi Toba and Hiroji Ishitaka, both of Tokyo, have developed a full or a partial wig with hair fibers implanted, , which has protrusions formed of a silicone substance on a side facing the scalp of a wearer.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wig is fabricated by: a masking sheet, having a great number of openings around 10 millimeter in diameter formed therein, being applied to a side of a wig base which is to face the scalp of a wearer; a silicone adhesive agent being applied to the wig base through the openings; one end of a tablet formed of a silicone substance, which ...