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Tape strip pads and dispenser and method of dispensing individual tape strips

  • US 20030129346A1
  • Filed: 12/31/2002
  • Published: 07/10/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/13/1998
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A W-stacked pad of adhesive tape strips comprising a plurality of superimposed tape strips wherein:

  • a. the tape strips include;

    b. a substrate having first and second opposite major surfaces, first and second opposite longitudinal ends, a first longitudinal end portion adjacent the first end and a second longitudinal end portion adjacent the second end; and

    c. a layer of an adhesive on the second major surface of the substrate;

    d. sequential tape strips are longitudinally reversed so as to align the first end of each tape strip with the second end of an immediately overlaying and an immediately underlying tape strip;

    e. the adhesive layer of each tape strip is releasably adhered to an adjacent tape strip;

    f. the adhesive layer of each tape strip adheres the second end portion of each tape strip to the first end portion of an adjacent tape strip at a second adhesion level having an adhesive strength sufficient to prevent any appreciable longitudinal movement of the second end portion of an intermediate tape strip relative to the first end portion of an immediately underlying tape strip when an immediately overlying tape strip is dispensed from the pad at a high peel angle; and

    g. the adhesive layer of each tape strip adheres the first end portion of each tape strip to the second end portion of an adjacent tape strip at a first adhesion level, with (i) the first adhesion level having a adhesive strength greater than about 1½

    times the adhesive strength of the second adhesion level, and (ii) the first adhesion level having an adhesive strength effective for affording a complete release of the overlying tape strip from the intermediate tape strip after the second end portion of the intermediate tape strip is released from the first end portion of the immediately underlying tape strip and before the intermediate tape strip is completely peeled from the second end portion of the immediately underlying tape strip.

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