The Kendall Company

Tyco Adhesives LP

Abboud L Mamish

Leonard D DeCoste, Jr

Serra M Jerry

Paul S Goldsmith

Stephanie L Laurin

Flexible, conformable, pressure sensitive adhesive film material has a plastic film and a compatible pressure sensitive adhesive layer on at least a first surface of the plastic film. The plastic film is formulated of plastic film polymers and optional additives. The plastic film polymers include, at least, thermoplastic ethylene/styrene interpolymer in major part, and a temperature modifier polymer, which increases the thermal resistance of the plastic film. The pressure sensitive adhesive layer is compatible with the plastic film, such as acrylic-based adhesive and shear-coated rubber-based adhesive. The PSA film material can be harness tape for use in wire harness constructions and can provide advantageously low fogging and good recyclability, along with performance characteristics suitable to stringent harness tape and other end-use applications. In certain embodiments, a plastic barrier layer is coextruded with the plastic film, and a surface of the plastic film opposite the adhesive layer.

Non-fogging pressure sensitive adhesive film material

Adhesives, particularly pressure sensitive adhesives, and adhesive tapes, e.g., harness tapes, that exhibit low-fogging characteristics. The adhesive is a cured composition of an elastomer and a cure system including a sulfur-containing and a zinc-based curing agent.

Low-fogging pressure-sensitive adhesive

Novel finger-tearable industrial tapes comprising:

Industrial tapes

Novel methods for preparing masking tapes by coating a thin layer of a polyolefinic material onto a lightweight nonwoven cloth and then applying a layer of adhesive, preferably a hot melt adhesive onto the opposed surface of the nonwoven cloth; and novel masking tapes prepared thereby. In the preferred embodiments, the polyolefinic layer consists essentially of a thin stratum of a high density polyethylene and a thin layer of low density polyethylene.

Masking tape

Novel adhesive tapes consisting essentially of, in order, (1) a layer comprising glass or resin microspheres dispersed in a polymeric matrix; (2) a cloth scrim or reinforcing fabric; and (3) a layer of adhesive, preferably a pressure-sensitive adhesive.

Novel adhesive tapes

Novel adhesive tapes comprising a cloth material and a layer of plastic foam having a thin plastic skin adhered to one surface and a layer of adhesive, e.g. a pressure-sensitive adhesive adhered to the opposed surfaces; and methods for making same.

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Natick, MA, United States of America

Abboud L Mamish