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Expanded retroreflective sheet material

US4712868A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 23, 1985
Grant dateDec 15, 1987
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Expiry dateSep 23, 2005

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T428/24314
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Retroreflective sheet material capable of retroreflecting light at high incidence angles is prepared by laminating retroreflective sheeting to a base sheet, slitting the laminated sheet assembly in an array of spaced discontinuous slits, and expanding the laminated sheet assembly so that openings occur at the slits and portions of the laminated sheet assembly between the slits bend out of the plane which they originally occupied.

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