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.
Claims10
A substrate non-destructively attachable on a wall surface, said 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;
- a cutout formed along an edge of the outer perimeter to define a recessed space having a maximum width and a maximum length;
- wherein the maximum width and the maximum length of the recessed space are sufficiently large for retrieving a tab with an end edge of a double-sided adhesive strip adhered to the backside surface of the substrate;
- wherein in a mounted position on a wall surface, no part of the body extends rearward of the backside surface beyond a thickness of a double-side adhesive strip.
A substrate non-destructively attachable on a wall surface, said 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;
- an access hole 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
- wherein the maximum width and the maximum length of the inner perimeter are sufficiently large for retrieving a tab with an end edge of a double-sided adhesive strip adhered to the backside surface of the substrate;
- wherein in a mounted position on a wall surface, no part of the body extends rearward of the backside surface beyond a thickness of a double-side adhesive strip.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.