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.
Claims20
A substrate non-destructively attachable on a wall surface and a product attachable to the substrate, 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;
- the body having a length and a width, and wherein the length is larger than the width;
- two spaced apart cutouts formed in the body, inside the outer perimeter of the body, the two spaced apart cutout including a first cutout and a second cutout and wherein each cutout has a cutout perimeter and the cutout perimeter is sufficiently large for retrieving a tab of a double-sided adhesive strip adhered to the backside surface of the body;
- wherein the body is made from a magnetically attractable material and is configured to be magnetically attracted to a magnetic element;
- said product comprising a dry erase magnetic sheet magnetically attachable to the body of the substrate, a cooking utensil having a magnetic element magnetically attachable to the body of the substrate, a knife having a magnetic element magnetically attachable to the body of the substrate, or a mounting rack having a front rack surface and a magnetic element attachable to the body of the substrate;
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- 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 and a product attachable to the substrate, said substrate comprising:
- a body having two sidewalls defining a trough, a first surface configured to face a wall when the body is mounted to the wall and a second surface opposite the first surface;
- the body having a length and a width, and wherein the length is larger than the width;
- two spaced apart cutouts formed in the body, between the two sidewalls, the two spaced apart cutout including a first cutout and a second cutout and wherein each cutout has a cutout perimeter and the cutout perimeter is sufficiently large for retrieving a tab of a double-sided adhesive strip adhered to the first surface of the body;
- said product comprising a body having two sidewalls defining a receiving space and wherein the two sidewalls are configured to cooperate with the two sidewalls of the substrate;
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- wherein in a mounted position on a wall surface, no part of the body of the substrate extends rearward of the first surface beyond a thickness of a double-side adhesive strip.
A substrate non-destructively attachable on a wall surface and a product attachable to the substrate, 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;
- the body having a length and a width, and wherein the length is larger than the width;
- two spaced apart cutouts formed in the body, inside the outer perimeter of the body, the two spaced apart cutout including a first cutout and a second cutout and wherein each cutout has a cutout perimeter and the cutout perimeter is sufficiently large for retrieving a tab of a double-sided adhesive strip adhered to the backside surface of the body;
- said product comprising a shelf having a surface extending outwardly away from the exposed surface of the substrate, the shelf extending outwardly from proximate the perimeter of the substrate;
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- 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.