Lost button replacement method and apparatus
OwnerMilton Chernackinventor
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Abstract
A replacement button assembly comprises a replacement button, a carrier sheet for securing and carrying the replacement button, a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet underlying the carrier sheet, and an adhesively removable backing sheet underlying the adhesive sheet. Such replacement button assembly can be easily adhered to a garment after the removable backing sheet is stripped from the assembly. The present invention also provide a process of making the replacement button assembly.
Claims8
A replacement-button assembly for attachment to a cloth-like article, comprising:
- a. a button of a predetermined configuration;
- b. a carrier sheet, means for securing said button to said carrier sheet, said carrier sheet having a first surface facing said button and a second surface opposite to said first surface;
- c. a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet adhering to said second surface of said carrier sheet, said pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet having an adhesive sheet hole, which is concentric with and dimensioned smaller than said button;
- d. a backing sheet adhesively detachably connected to said pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet, said backing sheet having a backing sheet hole which is concentric with and dimensioned smaller than said button, said backing sheet hole being arranged in alignment with said adhesive sheet hole.
A unitary product including a plurality of replacement button assemblies, comprising:
- a. a carrier sheet having a first and a second surface;
- b. a plurality of buttons of predetermined configuration in a planar array in confronting relation with said first surface of said carrier sheet;
- c. a plurality of means for securing said plurality of buttons to said carrier sheet;
- d. a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet adhering to said second surface of said carrier sheet, said pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet having a plurality of adhesive sheet holes in alignment with said plurality of buttons, each of said holes being concentric with and dimensioned smaller than each of said buttons;
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- e. a backing sheet adhesively, detachably connected to said pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet, said backing sheet having a plurality of backing sheet holes in alignment with said plurality of buttons each of said backing sheet holes being concentric with and dimensioned smaller than each of said buttons, the portions of said carrier sheet underlying said buttons being detached from the remainder of said carrier sheet and being removably held relative to said remainder of said carrier sheet by said pressure-sensitive adhesive and said backing sheet, whereby an individual button, its underlying portion of said carrier sheet and said pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet adhering thereto can be removed as a unit without disturbing said backing sheet.
A process for making a replacement-button assembly, comprising the steps of:
- a. detachably adhering a backing sheet to a first surface of a pressure sensitive adhesive sheet to form a adhesive-backing sheet assembly;
- b. punching a plurality of holes in a predeterminately spaced relation through said adhesive-backing sheet assembly;
- c. adhering a carrier sheet to a second surface of said pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet;
- c. cutting through said carrier sheet around each of said plurality of holes to form a plurality of individual units, so that said plurality of units are held separably relative to each other on said backing sheet.
- e. securing each of a plurality of replacement buttons on said individual units of said carrier sheet in a matching relation with said plurality of holes, said each of said replacement buttons being secured on said carrier sheet without being connected with said adhesive-backing sheet assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.