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US 10,166,566 B2Granted
Flexible tubular tape
AssigneeTube Tape, LLC
InventorLeo M. Moore
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Abstract
A flexible tubular tape product includes a hollow tape tube formed from a spiral wound strip of overlapping pressure sensitive adhesive coated tape. The hollow tube defines an empty interior core space. The outside surface of the hollow tape tube is coated with the pressure sensitive adhesive. A flexible core shaft is positioned inside the interior core space of the hollow tape tube in order to impart some body and ease of handling to the tape tube product.
Claims17
A flexible, tubular tape product comprising;
- a hollow tape tube formed from a spiral wound strip of overlapping pressure sensitive adhesive coated tape, wherein the hollow tape tube defines an empty interior core space and further wherein the outside surface of the hollow tape tube is coated with the pressure sensitive adhesive;
- and a flexible core shaft inside the interior core space of the hollow tape tube, wherein the flexible core shaft defines an outside diameter and the hollow tape tube defines an inside diameter, and the outside diameter of the flexible core shaft is less than the inside diameter of the hollow tape tube.
A combination of a flexible, tubular tape product and a shipping container comprising:
- the flexible, tubular tape product comprising;
- a hollow tape tube formed from a spiral wound strip of overlapping pressure sensitive adhesive coated tape, wherein the hollow tape tube defines an empty interior core space and further wherein the outside surface of the hollow tape tube is coated with the pressure sensitive adhesive;
- and
- a flexible core shaft inside the interior core space of the hollow tape tube;
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- wherein the flexible, tubular tape product is cut into predetermined length segments;
- the shipping container having a plurality of tubular chambers therein, wherein each chamber has an inside diameter that is greater than an outside diameter of the flexible, tubular tape product;
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- wherein the inside surface of each of the tubular chambers is coated with a release layer;
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- wherein each of the plurality of tubular chambers have a tubular length of at least about ±two inches of the length of the predetermined length segments of the flexible, tubular tape product;
- whereby the predetermined lengths segments of the flexible, tubular tape product are stored and shipped in the tubular chambers of the shipping container.
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