Mounting composite
AssigneeMinnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
InventorsPatricia R. Konsti, Robert J. Wolf, Mary K. Miller-Bruns, Christine M. Sawka
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Abstract
A mounting composite for removably mounting sheet materials on a vertical wall formed of woven or knitted fabric. The mounting composite comprises a support layer with means along its front surface for retaining and displaying sheet materials, and a fastener attached along a rear major surface of the support layer. The fastener can include a multiplicity of aligned curved hook-like projections, or upstanding stems with mushroom heads. The mounting composite can be firmly removably attached on a vertical wall covered with woven or knitted fabric by engagement of the hook-like projections mushroom heads with the fibers of the fabric.
Claims32
A mounting composite for removably mounting sheet materials on a vertical wall covered with woven or knitted fabric, said mounting composite comprising;
- a backing layer having opposite front and rear major surfaces;
- means along said front surface and attached to said backing layer for retaining and displaying sheet materials along said front surface;
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- a first fastener strip including a base layer having opposite front and rear major surfaces, said rear major surface being attached surface to surface along the rear major surface of said backing layer, and said fastener strip further including a multiplicity of curved projections, each projection being integral with said base layer, decreasing in cross sectional area away from said base layer, having a pointed end portion opposite said base layer, and being curved away from said base layer in the same hook direction generally parallel to the front surface of said base layer with the pointed end portions being generally pointed in said hook direction;
- said mounting composite being adapted to be removably attached on a vertical wall formed of woven or knitted fabric with the pointed end portions of said projections directed generally vertically downwardly.
A mounting composite for removably mounting sheet materials on a vertical wall covered with woven or knitted fabric, said mounting composite comprising;
- a backing layer having opposite front and rear major surfaces;
- means along said front surface and attached to said backing layer for retaining and displaying sheet materials along said front surface;
- and
- a first fastener strip including a base layer having opposite front and rear major surfaces, said rear major surface being attached surface to surface along the rear major surface of said backing layer, said first fastener strip further including, integral with said base layer, an array of upstanding stems distributed across the front surface of the base layer and a mushroom head at the end of each stem opposite the base layer, said mushroom heads having circular disc shapes with generally planar end surfaces opposite the base layer, which disc shaped heads have diameter to thickness ratios of greater than about 1.5 to 1;
- said mounting composite being adapted to be removably attached on a vertical wall covered with woven or knitted fabric by said first fastener strip.
A mounting composite for removably mounting sheet materials on a vertical wall covered with woven or knitted fabric, said mounting composite comprising;
- a backing layer having opposite front and rear major surfaces;
- means along said front surface and attached to said backing layer for retaining and displaying sheet materials along said front surface;
- and
- fastener means for releasably fastening to woven or knitted fabric along the rear major surface of said backing layer, said fastener means including a multiplicity of curved projections, each projection decreasing in cross sectional area away from said rear surface, having a pointed end portion opposite said rear surface, and being curved away from said rear surface in the same hook direction generally parallel to said rear surface with the pointed end portions being generally pointed in said hook direction;
- said mounting composite being adapted to be removably attached on a vertical wall formed of woven or knitted fabric by said fastening means with the pointed end portions of said projections directed generally vertically downwardly.
A mounting composite for removably mounting sheet materials on a vertical wall covered with woven or knitted fabric, said mounting composite comprising;
- a support layer having opposite front and rear major surfaces;
- means along said front surface and attached to said support layer for retaining and displaying sheet materials along said front surface;
- and
- fastener means for releasably fastening to woven or knitted fabric along the rear major surface of said support layer, said fastener means including an array of upstanding stems distributed across the front surface of the support layer and a mushroom head at the end of each stem opposite the base layer, said mounting composite being adapted to be removably attached on a vertical wall covered with woven or knitted fabric by engagement of said mushroom heads with the fibers of said fabric.
In combination, a vertical wall covered with woven or knitted fabric, and a mounting composite for removably mounting sheet materials on said vertical wall, said mounting composite comprising;
- a support layer having opposite front and rear major surfaces;
- means along said front surface and attached to said support layer for retaining and displaying sheet materials along said front surface;
- and
- fastener means along the rear major surface of said support layer, said fastener means including an array of upstanding stems distributed across the front surface of the support layer and a mushroom head at the end of each stem opposite the base layer, said mounting composite being removably attached on said vertical wall by engagement of said mushroom heads with the fibers of said fabric.
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