Articles and methods for applying color on surfaces

US7897228B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Mark John Steinhardt · Cincinnati, US
• Shawn Christopher Pallotta · Maineville, US
• Robert Lawrence Prosise · Cincinnati, US
• John William Toussant · Sharonville, US
• Andrew Wnuk · Wyoming, US
• Von Kinsey · Loveland, US
• Anneke Kaminski · Cincinnati, US
• Julie Ann Pawlikowski · Cincinnati, US
• Bruce Hall · Cincinnati, US
• Roxanne Drago Westendorf · Cincinnati, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 13, 2007
• Grant date: Mar 1, 2011
• Expiry date: Aug 28, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/24975
• WIPO field: Surface technology, coating
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Articles for applying color on a surface that includes a sheet of dry color component having a margin, a front sheet surface, and a rear sheet surface opposite the front sheet surface, and an adhesive on the rear sheet surface for bonding the sheet to the surface. Either the margin of the sheet or the entire sheet is adapted for reducing or eliminating the visual perceptibility of the seam created when the margin is positioned in an overlapping, abutting, or spaced apart relationship with a margin of a juxtaposed second article. The reduction or elimination of the visual perceptibility of the seam may be promoted by a physical mechanism, a chemical mechanism, an optical mechanism, or a combination of these mechanisms.