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US 12,378,444 B2Granted
Pressure sensitive adhesive building surface accessory
AssigneeCertainTeed Gypsum, Inc.
InventorsStephen Cline, Craig D. Radford, Michael House
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates a building surface accessory comprising an elongated body having a length that extends from a first end to a second end, the elongated body having an inside surface, an outside surface, a first edge, and a second edge, and an adhesive sheet having an outside surface coupled to the elongated body, an inside surface, and pressure sensitive adhesive on at least a portion of the inside surface, wherein the adhesive sheet is embossed such that the pressure sensitive adhesive has a plurality of raised portions.
Claims20
A building surface accessory comprising:
- an elongated body having a length that extends from a first end to a second end, the elongated body having an inside surface, an outside surface, a first edge, and a second edge;
- an adhesive sheet having an outside surface coupled to the inside surface of the elongated body, an inside surface, and a pressure sensitive adhesive on at least a portion of the inside surface of the adhesive sheet, wherein the adhesive sheet is embossed such that the pressure sensitive adhesive has a plurality of raised portions and a plurality of retracted portions,
- wherein the outside surface of the adhesive sheet is spaced from the elongated body in registration with the plurality of raised portions of pressure sensitive adhesive, such that the plurality of raised portions of the pressure sensitive adhesive sheet can be deformed into cavities in the outside surface of the adhesive sheet with an application of pressure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.