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US 2022/0022668 A1Published application
Flexible hardgoods with enhanced peel removability
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorsPayam Khodaparast, Erik M. Anderson, Kevin W. Weber
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides adhesive mounting articles that can be removed from surfaces without damage by having reduced contribution of a hardgood to the peel force generated by the adhesive article during removal. In some instances, this can be accomplished by a hardgood that is flexible in a peel direction and rigid in a weight hanging direction. Such hardgoods may include a plurality of minimally connected body segments arranged about the transverse axis of the hardgood body.
Claims25
An adhesive article for mounting an object to a surface, the article comprising:
- an adhesive layer;
- a flexible body having a plurality of discrete body segments, the body segments arranged at a defined pitch, wherein flexible body is more rigid in a longitudinal direction than a transverse direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.