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US 2016/0236221 A1Published application
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.
Claims18
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 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 positioned inside the interior core space of the hollow tape tube.
A combination of a flexible tubular tape product and a shipping container comprising:
- 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 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;
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- a flexible core shaft positioned inside interior core space of the hollow tape tube;
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- wherein the flexible tubular tape is cut into predetermined length segments;
- a 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 tape tube;
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- wherein the inside surface of each of the shipping container tubular chambers is coated with a release layer;
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- wherein the shipping container tubular chambers have a tubular length of at least about ±two inches of the length of the predetermined length segments of flexible tubular tape;
- whereby the predetermined lengths of flexible tubular tape may be stored and shipped in the tubular chambers of the shipping container.
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