Adhesive masking article for corners and door hinges
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorRussel J. Schivley
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Abstract
An adhesive tape masking article that can be used to mask both a door hinge or a corner includes a thin flexible sheet of material having opposed first and second major surfaces, first and second side edges, first and second end edges, and arcuate corners extending between at least one of the first and second side edges and the first and second end edges, and adhesive on at least a portion of at least one of the first and second major surfaces, thereby defining an adhesive surface for adhering the sheet to a surface to be masked. The sheet includes a frangible connection that allows the sheet to be separated into two masking articles, each of which can be used to mask corners.
Claims14
An adhesive tape masking article that can be used to mask both a door hinge or a corner, comprising:
- (a) a thin flexible sheet having a generally rectangular shape that is shaped to correspond to the size and shape of a single leaf of a door hinge, the thin flexible sheet having opposed first and second major surfaces, first and second opposite side edges, first and second opposite end edges, and arcuate corners extending between at least one of the first and second side edges and the first and second end edges, wherein an entirety of the first and second side edges and an entirety of the first and second end edges are linearly uninterrupted between the arcuate corners, and wherein the sheet includes a frangible connection that extends perpendicularly from one side edge to the opposite side edge and that is oriented perpendicularly to each of the side edges;
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- (b) adhesive on at least a portion of at least one of the first and second major surfaces, thereby defining an adhesive surface for adhering the sheet to a surface to be masked.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.