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US 5,366,776 AGranted
Pad assembly
AssigneeMinnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
InventorTimothy A. Mertens
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Abstract
A pad assembly comprising a multiplicity of flexible sheets each having (1) a similarly sized body portion that has pressure sensitive adhesive on its rear surface and is sized and adapted so that its front surface can be written on, and (2) a smaller tab projecting beyond an edge of the body portion that can be positioned to project from the edge of a sheet to which the sheet is adhered.
Claims12
A pad assembly comprising:
- a multiplicity of flexible sheets, each sheet having front and rear surfaces, having a body portion generally of the same size as the body portions of the other sheets, having peripheral edges including first and second opposite edges, having a tab portion smaller in surface area than said body portion projecting beyond said second edge of said body portion, and having a layer of pressure sensitive adhesive on said rear surface of said body portion, said sheets being disposed in a stack with the corresponding peripheral edges of the body portions of the sheets aligned, the front and rear surfaces of adjacent sheets facing each other, and the layer of pressure sensitive adhesive on each sheet releasably adhering that sheet to the adjacent sheet in the stack, and said sheets including a plurality of different sets of sheets with the sheets in each of said sets of sheets having the same peripheral shape and having tabs at a different location along said second edges of said body portions than the locations of the tabs along said second edges of said body portions in the other sets of sheets.
A pad assembly comprising:
- a multiplicity of flexible sheets of paper, each sheet having front and rear surfaces, having a body portion generally of the same size as the body portions of the other sheets, having peripheral edges including first and second opposite edges, having a tab portion smaller in surface area than said body portion projecting beyond said second edge of said body portion and having a layer of pressure sensitive adhesive that can be removably adhered to a document on said rear surface of said body portion, said sheets being disposed in a stack with the corresponding peripheral edges of the body portions of the sheets aligned, the front and rear surfaces of adjacent sheets facing each other, and the layer of pressure sensitive adhesive on each sheet releasably adhering that sheet to the adjacent sheet in the stack, and each of said sheets including a reinforcing layer along one surface of said tab and along the surface of an adjacent minor part of the main body of the sheet to restrict tearing of said sheet adjacent said tab portions said reinforcing layers being of polymeric material and being on the rear surfaces of said sheets.
A pad assembly comprising:
- a multiplicity of flexible sheets of paper, each sheet having front and rear surfaces, having a body portion generally of the same size as the body portions of the other sheets having peripheral edges including first and second opposite edges, having a tab portion smaller in surface area than said body portion protecting beyond said second edge of said body portion, and having a layer of pressure sensitive adhesive that can be removably adhered to a document on said rear surface of said body portion, said sheets being disposed in a stack with the corresponding peripheral edges of the body portions of the sheets aligned, the front and rear surfaces of adjacent sheets facing each other and the layer of pressure sensitive adhesive of each sheet releasably adhering that sheet to the adjacent sheet in the stack, and each of said sheets including a reinforcing layer along one surface of said tab and along the surface of an adjacent minor part of the main body of the sheet to restrict tearing of said sheet adjacent said tab portion, said reinforcing layers being of polymeric material, being on the front surfaces of said sheets, being brightly colored, and having colors contrasting to the color of the sheets.
A pad assembly comprising:
- a multiplicity of flexible sheets, each sheet having front and rear surfaces, having a body portion generally of the same size as the body portions of the other sheets, having peripheral edges including first and second opposite edges, having a tab portion smaller in surface are than said body portion protecting beyond said second edge of said body portion, and having a layer of pressure sensitive adhesive on said rear surface of said body portion, said sheets being disposed in a stack with the corresponding peripheral edges of the body portions of the sheets aligned, the front and rear surfaces of adjacent sheets facing each other, and the layer of pressure sensitive adhesive on each sheet releasably adhering that sheet to the adjacent sheet in the stack, and said body portions are of paper, said tab portions are of polymeric material, said tab portions are free of adhesive, said tab portions are brightly colored, and said tab portions are end portions of polymeric sheets having opposite end portions coated with repositionable pressure sensitive adhesive, said opposite end portions of said polymeric sheets being removably adhered along said surfaces of said body portions.
A pad assembly comprising:
- a multiplicity of flexible sheets, each sheet having front and rear surfaces, having a body portion generally of the same size as the body portions of the other sheets, having peripheral edges including first and second opposite edges, having a tab portion smaller in surface area than said body portion protecting beyond said second edge of said body portion, and having a layer of pressure sensitive adhesive that can be removably adhered to a document on said rear surface of said body portion, said sheets being disposed in a stack with the corresponding peripheral edges of the body portions of the sheets aligned, the front and rear surfaces of adjacent sheets facing each other, and the layer of pressure sensitive adhesive on each sheet releasably adhering that sheet to the adjacent sheet in the stack, and wherein said sheets are perforated along said second edge between said body portions and said tab portions, and said tab portions are perforated at about right angles to said second edges to define a plurality of tab portion parts along said tab portions, said sheets include layers of cohesive on one of said surfaces including portions of said layers of cohesive along said tab portions and portions of said layers of cohesive along adjacent parts of said body portions, each of said tab portion parts being separable from an adjacent tab portion part along one of said perforations between said tab portion parts and being bendable along said perforations along said second edge to engage the portion of the layer of cohesive on the tab portion part with the portion of the layer of cohesive on the body part and thereby retain the tab portion part folded back along said second edge to thereby afford leaving only a single selected tab portion part projecting from said second edge of said body portion.
A pad assembly comprising:
- a multiplicity of flexible sheets, each sheet having front and rear surfaces, having a paper body portion generally of the same size as the body portions of the other sheets, having peripheral edges including first and second opposite edges, having a tab portion projecting beyond said second edge of said body portion and having a layer of pressure sensitive adhesive that can be removably adhered to a document on said rear surface of said body portion, said sheets being disposed in a stack with the corresponding peripheral edges of the body portions of the sheets aligned, the front and rear surfaces of adjacent sheets facing each other, and the layer of pressure sensitive adhesive on each sheet adhering that sheet to the adjacent sheet in the stack, said tab portions are of polymeric material, are free of adhesive, are brightly colored, and are end portions of polymeric sheets having opposite end portions coated with pressure sensitive adhesive, said opposite end portions being removably adhered along said side surfaces of said body portions.
A pad assembly comprising:
- a multiplicity of flexible sheets, each sheet having front and rear surfaces, said sheets being transversely perforated to define on one side of the perforation of each of said sheets a body portion of said sheet and on the other side of said perforation a tab portion of said sheet, and said tab portions being perforated at about right angles to said transverse perforations to define a plurality of tab portion parts along said tab portions, said sheets each having a band of pressure sensitive adhesive that can be removably adhered to a document on said rear surface of said body portion and being disposed in a stack with the body portions of the sheets aligned, the front and rear surfaces of adjacent sheets facing each other, and the band of pressure sensitive adhesive on each sheet adhering that sheet to the adjacent sheet in the stack, said sheets include layers of cohesive on one of said surfaces including portions of said layers of cohesive along said tab portions and portions of said layers of cohesive along adjacent parts of said body portion, each of said tab portion parts being separable from an adjacent tab portion part along one of said perforations between said tab portion parts and being bendable along said transverse perforation to engage the portion of the layer of cohesive on the tab portion part with the portion of the layer of cohesive on the body part and thereby retain the tab portion part folded back along said transverse perforation to thereby afford leaving only a single selected tab portion part projecting from said second edge of said body portion.
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