Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

Daniel D Smith

John J Mailand

Warren L Langstraat

A dispensing device for use in dispensing sheets of material coated along one edge with a narrow band of readily releasable pressure-sensitive adhesive. The dispenser comprises a container having a pair of sidewalls connected by a top wall which is formed with a transversely extending rectangular opening extending in the direction parallel to the side walls. The sheets are stacked within the dispenser such that upon removing the uppermost sheet in the stack the adhesive coating along one edge of the sheet adhered to the edge of the next sheet in the stack will cause the next sheet in the stack to be withdrawn at that free edge through the dispensing opening upon withdrawal of the uppermost sheet.

Dispenser for adhesive coated sheet material

A stack of flexible sheet material for use in a dispensing device for dispensing individual sheets. The sheets are stacked with alternately opposite edges of successive sheets coated along one edge with a narrow band of readily releasable repositionable pressure-sensitive adhesive. The dispenser comprises a container having a pair of sidewalls connected by a top wall which is formed with a transversely extending rectangular opening extending in the direction parallel to the sidewalls. The stack of sheets are placed within the dispenser such that upon removing the uppermost sheet in the stack the adhesive coating along one edge of the sheet parallel to the opening and adhered to the free edge of the next sheet in the stack will cause the next sheet in the stack to be withdrawn at that free edge through the dispensing opening upon withdrawal of the adhesive coated edge of the uppermost sheet.

Stack of sheet material

A motor-driven wheel for sanding irregular surfaces including a plurality of flexible support members projecting generally radially outwardly from a hub assembly and a plurality of separate nonconnected lengths of flexible abrasive-coated material projecting along the support members from within the hub assembly. Each of the lengths of abrasive-coated material is releasably secured in the hub assembly by separate members positioned adjacent the periphery of the hub assembly which permit, when released, individual movement of the individual lengths into or out of the hub assembly.

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Cottage Grove, MN, United States of America

Daniel D Smith