Stress tearable tape
OwnerAn-Hsia Liu, Victor D. Liu +1inventors
InventorsAn-Hsia Liu, Victor D. Liu, Alexander D. Liu
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Abstract
A stress tearable tape includes an elongated film and a hand tearing arrangement. The film has a non-adhesive surface and an opposed adhesive surface, and defines a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction. The hand tearing arrangement includes a plurality of pinholes formed along the longitudinal direction of the film. With the combination application of internal force, shear tension, compression tension, pinhole arrangement, and material's biaxial structure, and users' habit together, each of the pinholes enables the film being torn by hand with a force starting at one of the pinholes, such that the film is hand tearable at any section in the transverse direction thereof.
Claims36
A stress tearable tape adapted for a user to tear to cut in a transverse direction thereof by finger tips of the user, comprising:
- an elongated film having a non-adhesive surface and an opposed adhesive surface, and defining a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction, wherein said film has a thickness of 0.001 to 0.003 inch and two longitudinal edge portions along said longitudinal direction;
- a plurality of pinholes closely and spacedly formed and extended along at least one of said longitudinal edge portions of said film to form at least a row of said plurality of pinholes, wherein a distance between each two of said plurality of pinholes along said longitudinal edge portion is the same and a barrier portion is defined between said row of said plurality of pinholes and a longitudinal edge of said film, wherein said barrier portion has a width of 0.01 to 0.2 inch, wherein each of said plurality of pinholes is a through hole, penetrating from said non-adhesive surface to said adhesive surface of said film, having a diameter of 0.001 to 0.1 inch at said non-adhesive surface which gradually reduces towards said adhesive surface of said film and is smaller than a distance of 0.05 to 0.2 inch between every two adjacent pinholes of said plurality of pinholes for enabling one of the finger tips of the user to cover at least two of said plurality of pinholes along said longitudinal direction so as to tear said film by hand with a force starting at one of said at least two pinholes of said plurality of pinholes caught and cover by the finger tip of the user to cut said film along said transverse direction, wherein a diameter of each of said pinholes is smaller than a distance between every said two adjacent pinholes of said plurality of pinholes.
A stress tearable tape adapted for a user to tear to cut in a transverse direction thereof by hands of the user, comprising:
- an elongated film having a non-adhesive surface and an opposed adhesive surface, and defining a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction, wherein said film has a thickness of 0.001 to 0.003 inch;
- a plurality of pinholes closely and spacedly formed and extended along a centerline of said film longitudinally to form at least a row of said plurality of pinholes, wherein a distance between each two of said plurality of pinholes along said centerline is the same, wherein each of said plurality of pinholes is a through hole, penetrating from said non-adhesive surface to said adhesive surface of said film, having a diameter of 0.001 to 0.1 inch at said non-adhesive surface which gradually reduces towards said adhesive surface of said film and is smaller than a distance of 0.05 to 0.2 inch between every two adjacent pinholes of said plurality of pinholes for enabling the user to apply a leftward pulling force and a rightward pulling force by the hands of the user along said longitudinal direction until a shearing stress is created to reach a rupture point on one of said plurality of pinholes that is perpendicular to the leftward pulling force and the rightward pulling force to rupture and tear upwards and downwards on said one of said plurality of pinholes perpendicularly, wherein a diameter of each of said pinholes is smaller than a distance between every said two adjacent pinholes of said plurality of pinholes.
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