Convertible metal backings and related methods
AssigneeAvertech, Inc.
InventorNeal H. Avery
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Abstract
A substrate usable with a double-side adhesive strip to suspend the substrate to a wall surface. The substrate can have one or more access holes located within an outer perimeter of the substrate. Each access hole has an inner perimeter inwardly of the outer perimeter that is sized and shaped to allow a tab of the double-sided adhesive strip to be extracted through the inner perimeter, after the substrate is suspended on the wall surface. Various articles can attach to the suspended substrate, such as through magnetic attachment, a hook, or a shelf.
Claims25
A method of using a substrate comprising a body having an outer perimeter defining a shape of the body, an exposed surface and a backside surface opposing the exposed surface;
- and an access hole formed through the body and located within the outer perimeter, said access hole comprising an inner perimeter, inward of the outer perimeter, having a maximum width and a maximum length, the method comprising:
- adhering a first side of a double-sided adhesive strip comprising a thickness to the backside surface of the body of the substrate;
- orienting a tab having an end edge of the double-sided adhesive strip to be located at least partially within the inner perimeter of the access hole so that the tab is viewable through the access hole from the exposed surface;
- adhering a second side of the double-sided adhesive strip to a wall surface;
- wherein in a mounted position on the wall surface, no part of the body of the substrate extends rearward of the backside surface beyond the thickness of the double-side adhesive strip;
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- wherein the maximum width and the maximum length of the inner perimeter are sufficiently large for retrieving the tab of the double-sided adhesive strip from a location on a side of the exposed surface.
A method of using a substrate comprising a body having an outer perimeter defining a shape of the body, an exposed surface and a backside surface opposing the exposed surface;
- and an access hole formed through the body and located within the outer perimeter, said access hole comprising an inner perimeter, inward of the outer perimeter, having a maximum width and a maximum length, the method comprising:
- exposing the inner perimeter of the access hole;
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- grabbing a tab of a double-sided adhesive strip that is adhered to the backside surface of the body and to a wall surface to pull the tab through the inner perimeter from an exposed surface side of the substrate and then stretching the double-sided adhesive strip generally parallel to the exposed surface of the substrate to pull a body section of the double-sided adhesive strip from the backside surface of the substrate through the inner perimeter.
A method of using a substrate comprising a body having an outer perimeter defining a shape of the body, an exposed surface and a backside surface opposing the exposed surface;
- and an access hole formed through the body and located within the outer perimeter, said access hole comprising an inner perimeter, inward of the outer perimeter, having a maximum width and a maximum length, the method comprising:
- placing a first side of a double-sided adhesive strip against the backside surface of the body so that a tab of the double-sided adhesive strip is at least partially within the inner perimeter of the access hole and viewable through the access hole from the exposed surface;
- placing a second side of the double-sided adhesive strip against a wall surface;
- covering the access hole and the tab with an article;
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- wherein the maximum width and the maximum length of the inner perimeter are sufficiently large for retrieving the tab with of the double-sided adhesive strip adhered to the backside surface of the substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.