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US 6,637,124 B2Granted
Adhesive measuring tape
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorJeffrey C. Pederson
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Abstract
An adhesive backed measuring tape is disclosed that can provide customized, printed measurement scales on a single flexible backing that has a positionable or repositionable adhesive for contact with flat surfaces, single curved surfaces, or compound curved surfaces. In a preferred embodiment, the measuring tape has multiple scales printed thereon. The combination of linear sections and transverse axes defined by intervals can permit a variety of repeating scales on a single tape, minimizing waste of tape unrolled from a dispenser.
Claims10
An adhesive backed measuring tape, comprising
- (a) a flexible backing having two major surfaces, wherein one major surface has a measurement layer printed or contacted thereon, thereby providing a measuring tape;
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- (b) a repositionable adhesive layer adhered to the other major surface of the flexible backing or to the surface having the measurement layer printed or contacted thereon, the adhesive layer being capable of being easily slid over a substrate without preadhering to the substrate, wherein said adhesive tape is wound directly upon itself in a roll form and has perforations at given intervals of length according to the measurement layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.