Use of an adhesive tape section

US6874740B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• tesa AG · DE

Inventors

• Jörn Leiber · Heiligenstedtenerkamp, DE
• Bernd Lühmann · Norderstedt, DE
• Thomas Raadts · Norderstedt, DE
• Ralf Schliephacke · Itzehoe, DE
• Peter Kubasch · Lübeck, DE
• Jan Chal · Jílové, CZ
• Hansjürgen Linde · Coburg, DE
• Uwe Neumann · Coburg, DE
• Hans Hazes · Amsterdam, NL

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 25, 1997
• Grant date: Apr 5, 2005
• Expiry date: Nov 25, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/28
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

An adhesive tape section having an adhesive region and designed as a polygon having a number of sides and the same number of grip tabs arranged around the adhesive region, or designed as a circle, the adhesive region occupying a central portion of said circle, and a grip tab occupying an outer portion of said circle. The adhesive tape section, when bonded to a substrate, forms a bond with the substrate, which bond is releasible from the substrate by pulling on at least on of said grip tabs in the plane of the bond to stretch the adhesive tape section in the plane of the bond thereby to release the adhesive tape section from the substrate.