Multiple cut to core tape roll
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorsRonald H. Ager, Daniel M. Puls, Gerald L. Vogler
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Abstract
A roll of web and a method of making it has a total web width that is divided into n+1 portions by n circumferential slits. Each portion has a width less than the total web width such that the sum of the width of the portions equals the total web width and such that each portion can be individually used as an independent roll of web. The portions are held together such as by a core or an unslit portion of the web at innermost wraps of web.
Claims15
A method of masking an object with masking tape, comprising the steps of:
- providing a roll of adhesive tape including n circumferential slits which divide the roll of tape into n+1 portions, and means for holding together the portions, wherein the adhesive tape comprises masking tape, and wherein the roll includes at least two outermost portions exposed to contaminants;
- removing a length of tape from one of the portions of tape;
- and
- adhering the length of tape to an object to be masked and painted, wherein the length of tape is arranged so as not to present a contaminated portion along the paint line.
A method of masking an object with masking tape, comprising the steps of:
- providing a roll of adhesive tape including n circumferential slits which divide the roll of tape into n+1 portions, and means for holding together the portions, wherein the adhesive tape comprises masking tape, and wherein the roll includes first and second sacrificial outermost portions exposed to contaminants, and at least one portion between the sacrificial outermost portions;
- removing a length of tape from one of the portions of tape between the sacrificial portions;
- and
- adhering the length of tape to an object to be masked and painted.
A method of masking an object with masking tape, comprising the steps of:
- providing a roll of adhesive tape including n circumferential slits which divide the roll of adhesive tape into n+1 portions, and an unslit portion of the roll of tape at the innermost wraps for holding together the portions, wherein the unslit innermost wraps of tape are a minor portion of a total number of wraps of tape, wherein the adhesive tape comprises masking tape, and wherein the roll includes first and second sacrificial outermost portions exposed to contaiminants, and a plurality of different width portions between the sacrificial outermost portions;
- removing a length of tape from one of the portions of tape between the sacrificial portions;
- and
- adhering the length of tape to an object to be masked and painted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.