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US 4,539,248 AGranted
Reinforced filament tape
AssigneeAnchor Continental, Inc.
InventorsF. Rhett Brockington, William Z. Foster
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Abstract
A reinforced filament tape for securing and releasing meeting edges of a container or articles within a container, comprises a flexible backing ribbon with a pressure sensitive adhesive on one side. On the other side of the backing ribbon is a binding layer overlayed by a plurality of reinforcing filaments and a releasing layer. The filaments are contacted with a filament coating and remain securely positioned in the binding layer.
Claims17
A reinforced filament tape comprising:
- an elongate flexible backing ribbon having first and second mutually parallel planar surfaces;
- an adhesive layer overlaying and co-extensive with said first planar surface;
- a binding layer overlaying and co-extensive with said second planar surface;
- a plurality of spaced mutually parallel reinforcing fiber filaments overlaying said binding layer, said fiber filaments being contacted and penetrated with a filament coating to prevent said fiber filaments from separating from said binding layer;
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- a releasing layer overlaying and contoured to the shape of said filaments for facilitating unreeling of said reinforced filament tape.
3 more elements
A reinforced filament tape as defined in claimn 1 wherein:
- said tape additionally comprises a continuous layer of said filament coating between said reinforcing fiber filaments and said releasing layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.