Vibration dampening means for strung or spoked equipment

Claim 1

Tear resistant, light weight vibration dampening means having a width larger than the distance between two parallel rigid members of strung or spoked equipment and severed from a body of material comprising: a flexible thermoplastic elastomeric core made from strips of resilient thermoplastic elastomeric sheet material bonded together to from the walls of a honeycomb network of generally hexagonally shaped cells, said strips of material forming double thickness walls at the locations where said strips are bonded together, the walls of said cells each having upper edges and lower edges; and first and second sheets of resilient thermoplastic elastomeric and flat facing material, thermal compression bonded to the upper and lower surfaces of said core formed by said upper and lower edges, hermetically sealed to encapsulate air in said cells; wherein said dampening means is severed from said body of material such that the severance along at least two sides is made normal to said double thickness walls and proximate the midpoint of the intersected double thickness walls to expose the edges of the walls of each cell through which a severance is made, creating a plurality of outwardly extending vertical ribs intermittently spaced around the perimeter of said vibration dampening means.