Method of making a surface treating article and such a surface treating article

• US 6,817,935 B2
• Filed: 06/17/2003
• Issued: 11/16/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company (3M Company)
• Original Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company (3M Company)
• Inventors: Malaske, James W., Devaney, Douglas E., McKay, Bradley S., Elgin, Darla A., Livermore, Bruce W., Richtman, Paul J., Fry, Richard L., Bates, Michael S., Conwell, Stanley L., Fritz, Peter J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Shakeri, Hadi
• Application Number:
  US10/462,479
• Publication Number:
  US 20030207652A1
• Time in Patent Office: 518 Days
• Field of Search: 451/539, 451/526-533, 451/550, 451/6, 451/8-11, 451/508-512
• US Class Current: 451/539
• CPC Class Codes: B23B 31/11 Retention by threaded connection
• CPC Class Codes: B24B 45/00 Means for securing grinding wheels on rotary arbors suppression of vibrations in systems F16F15/00; testing static or dynamic balancing of machines G01M1/00
• CPC Class Codes: B24D 11/008 Finishing manufactured abrasive sheets, e.g. cutting, deforming
• CPC Class Codes: B24D 13/20 Mountings for the wheels
• CPC Class Codes: B24D 18/0036 by winding up abrasive bands
• CPC Class Codes: B24D 7/16 Bushings; Mountings
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1343 Cutting indefinite length web after assembly with discrete article
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53013 Computer input
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53417 Means to fasten work parts together

Abstract

A surface treating article including a surface treating member and a fastener including a fiducial. The present invention also provides a preferred method of making a surface treating article that includes to a method of sensing the location of a fasteners on a surface treating web and thereafter cutting the surface treating web around the fastener to provide a surface treating article.

Claims

1. A surface treating article, comprising:

a) a surface treating member, and

b) a fastener on said surface treating member including a drive member, wherein said drive member includes a distal end, wherein said distal end includes a fiducial, wherein said fiducial includes a planar first reflective surface, a non-refleclive surface, and a planar second reflective surface, wherein the second reflective surface occupies a different plane than the first reflective surface, and wherein the non-reflective surface is at an angle relative to the first reflective surface and the second reflective surface.

2. The surface treating article of claim 1, wherein said first reflective surface and said second reflective surface are parallel.

3. The surface treating article of claim 1, wherein the surface treating member comprises an abrasive member, and wherein said abrasive member includes a working surface and a back surface opposite the working surface.

4. The surface treating article of claim 3, wherein the working surface comprises a coated abrasive.

5. The surface treating article of claim 3, wherein the working surface comprises a non-woven surface.