Non-slip design pad for surfboard and method
AssigneeQ.P.I. Consumer Products Corporation
InventorRobert W. Foulke
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Abstract
A non-slip foam design pad apparatus and method in which a design pad is adapted in a stretched condition for use on a surface, such as a surfboard, to provide a non-slip surface and to provide a selected design pattern on the surfboard. The design pad apparatus comprises a thin sheet of flexible foam material, a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on one surface, and a removable protective layer over the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The foam sheet material is characterized by being diecut into a plurality of foam connected sections connected in a side to side alternating manner by short, uncut sections of the foam sheet material and adapted to move between a relaxed, diecut position and a stretched design position by longitudinal stretching of the non-slip design pad.
Claims23
A design pad apparatus adapted for use on an object surface to provide a non-slip surface and a design pattern thereon, which design pad apparatus comprises:
- a) a thin sheet of a flexible foam material having a non-skid foam top surface and a bottom surface and a longitudinal axis and sides;
- b) a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on the bottom surface of the foam material;
- c) a removable adhesive protective layer on the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer;
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- d) the foam sheet material comprising a plurality of transverse connected diecut sections formed by diecut lines, the connected sections connected by short, uncut sections of the foam material on alternating sides of the foam sheet material, the connected sections adapted to be moved between a relaxed adjacent position and a stretched spaced-apart position along the longitudinal axis to form a selected design prior to being adhered by the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer to the object surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.