Water activated golf grip tape
AssigneeAvery Dennison Corporation
InventorsWilliam G. Hartman, Herbert E. Bowling, Jr., Mary K. Senary-Deley
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Abstract
A method of adhesively securing first and second members together by sliding movement of the members along an interface where the members are to be joined by an adhesive layer having opposed normally tacky and normally sliding-movement-resistant sides includes the step of applying a liquid to an exposed side of the adhesive side to reduce its tackiness. After sliding assembly of the members, the liquid is transmitted from the side of the adhesive to the interior of the adhesive to enable tack increase at the exposed adhesive side and adhering of the members together. The adhesive includes a moisture absorbing component to enable liquid accumulation at the exposed side and subsequent transmission to the adhesive interior.
Claims19
A double coated adhesive tape including a carrier and first and second adhesive layers on opposed sides of the carrier, said first adhesive layer comprising a pressure-sensitive adhesive including an acrylic adhesive base resin and a hydrophilic colloidal material dispersed in said adhesive base resin, said first adhesive layer having a normally tacky surface, said hydrophilic colloidal material cooperating with an applied aqueous liquid to temporarily suppress the tackiness and increase the lubricity of the normally tacky surface to enable sliding contact with a substrate without adherence and subsequently causing the surface to become sufficiently tacky and adhesive to adhere said tape to said substrate.
A double coated adhesive tape for mounting first and second members in contiguous relationship, said tape including a carrier and first and second adhesive layers on opposed sides of the carrier, said first adhesive layer comprising a pressure-sensitive adhesive including an acrylic adhesive base resin and a hydrophilic colloidal material dispersed in said adhesive base resin, said first adhesive layer having a normally tacky surface, said hydrophilic colloidal material temporarily maintaining an applied aqueous liquid at said normally tacky surface in an amount sufficient to suppress the tackiness and increase the lubricity of the surface to allow one of said members to be slid along said normally tacky surface to its contiguous relationship with the other of said members, said hydrophilic colloidal material subsequently removing aqueous liquid from the surface to cause the surface to become sufficiently tacky and adhesive to adhere said tape to said member.
A double coated adhesive tape comprising a laminate including first and second adhesive layers, said first adhesive layer comprising a pressure-sensitive adhesive including an acrylic adhesive base resin and a hydrophilic colloidal material dispersed in said adhesive base resin, said first adhesive layer having a normally tacky surface, said hydrophilic colloidal material cooperating with an applied aqueous liquid to temporarily suppress the tackiness and increase the lubricity of the normally tacky surface to enable sliding contact with a substrate without adherence and subsequently causing the surface to become sufficiently tacky and adhesive to adhere said tape to said substrate.
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