Repositionable wall covering
AssigneeBorden, Inc.
InventorsGeorge Rusincovitch, Jr., Paul J. Roe
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Abstract
A sheet material having a decorative surface and a working surface, for application to a support surface is disclosed. A substantial area of the working surface is provided with a tacky, discontinuous layer of pressure sensitive adhesive. A pattern of non-adhesive projections which have a height equal to or greater than the thickness of the adhesive are provided within the discontinuities on the working surface.
Claims25
A self-adhesive decorative sheet that is easily repositioned after initial contact with a wall, comprising:
- A. a sheet having a decorative front side and a back side;
- B. a tacky pressure sensitive adhesive layer applied onto said back side, said layer having gaps lacking adhesive on said back side;
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- C. projections which are not sticky or tacky rising from said back side within said gaps and having a height at least equal to the thickness of the adhesive, said projections being separated from the adhesive by a portion of said gaps.
A self-adhesive wall covering that is easily repositionable on a wall by sliding after initial contact with the wall and which can be subsequently firmly adhered to the wall, said covering having a decorative front side and a back side, comprising:
- A. a tacky pressure sensitive adhesive on the back side;
- B. projections having a height which is at least equal to the thickness of the adhesive in contact with and rising from said back side, said projections being out of contact with the adhesive and wherein the projections enable the back side to slide over a wall by inhibiting contact of the adhesive with said wall while the back side can be firmly adhered to said wall by application of pressure to its front side.
A decorative sheet having on its back surface a uniformly distributed printed pattern of non-tacky projections having a tacky pressure sensitive adhesive adjacent each projection;
- the adhesive and projections being separated from each other in the plane of the back surface and wherein the projections have a height which is at least equal to the thickness of the adhesive.
A decorative sheet having a decorative surface and a working surface, wherein said working surface comprises:
- A. uniformly distributed printed projections rising above said surface and having a substantially diamond shaped cross section wherein each square foot of working surface contains from about 200 to 300 projections;
- B. uniformly distributed adhesive adjacent the projections and spaced therefrom printed on at least 40% of said surface, the thickness of said adhesive being substantially equal to or less than the height of the projections;
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- C. wherein the combination of projections and adhesive permit the sheet to be slidable over a wall and to be subsequently permanently secured thereto by application of force on the decorative surface.
A self adhesive decorative sheet that can be repositioned after initial contact with a wall, said sheet having a decorative front and a back side, said back side having non-adhesive projections and a tacky pressure sensitive adhesive over its surface, wherein:
- A. the projections form a uniform pattern and cover about 5% to 20% of the total surface area of the back;
- B. the adhesive is in a uniform pattern and covers about 40% to 90% of the total surface area of said back, said adhesive being in side by side relationship with the projections while spaced apart from said projections and having a thickness equal to or less than the thickness of the projections;
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- C. wherein the projections allow the back to slide on a wall and the sheet to be finally firmly attached to the wall by application of pressure to the decorative side of the sheet.
A method of manufacturing a decorative sheet having a decorative front side and a glueable back side, comprising the steps of:
- A. printing projections on the back side;
- B. printing a tacky pressure sensitive adhesive on said back side wherein the adhesive does not overlap with the projections and has a thickness equal to or less than the thickness of the printed projections and wherein the distribution, area occupied by the projections and adhesive, and the thickness of the projections rising above the plane of the adhesive surface allow the back side to slide by contact of the projections along the surface of a wall in order to reposition the sheet and finally be firmly attached to the wall by application of pressure on the decorative from side.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.