3m Innovative Properties Company

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

Douglas P Bodziak

James E Nash

David C Windorski

Gerald E Mueller

Traxton J Turner

Robert P Molenda

Ray A Hunder

Steven L Grovender

Jordan C DuCharme

Daniel J Tipping

Steven P Roth

Peter J Newbould

David James Prince

Jane E Harvey Pennaz

Timothy J O'Leary

Michael S Groess

June M Armbruster

Michel Bourdin

Debra A Obermueller Leptien

Timothy A Mogck

Timothy J O'LEARY

A notepad includes multiple sheets that are arranged into a stack. Each sheet has a first major face, a second major face, and a perimeter edge at which each of the first and second major faces terminate. The notepad also includes an adhesive disposed on a portion of the second major face of each sheet such that the portion of the second major face of each sheet releasably adheres to a corresponding portion of the first major face of an underlying sheet. The portion being disposed with the adhesive lies adjacent to a portion of the perimeter edge of a corresponding sheet for forming a releasably bonded side of the stack. Also, the stack is twisted about a common central axis of the sheets present therein such that the notepad has a spiral shape.

Spiral-shaped adhesive notepads and methods and devices for making them

An assembly for dispensing full adhesive notes comprising: a pad comprising a plurality of full adhesive notes arranged in a dispensing stack; and a retention surface comprising a mounting face and adjacent recessed portion; wherein the adhesive on the bottommost note is adhered to the mounting face and portions of the note extend beyond the mounting face.

Assembly for dispensing full adhesive notes

Dispenser

A foldable and unfoldable pop-up article with a tensioning member.

Foldable pop-up article

A dispenser includes an upper member having a slot and a lower member attached to the upper member thereby forming a housing, the lower member having an outer surface; a stack of sheets assembled in a fan-fold configuration disposed in the housing; and a polymeric holding film having a first surface attached to the outer surface of the lower member. The holding film having a flexural modulus less than about 50 MPa, as measured according to ASTMD790 standard, and a roughness parameter, Rof less than about 1 micrometer, as calculated according to ASME B46.1 standard.

Attachment system and dispensers used therewith

A refillable sheet dispenser of the type having walls defining a cavity adapted to receive a stack of sheets including first and second end walls at opposite ends of a side wall with the first end wall having an elongate outlet opening through which individual sheets from the stack in the cavity may be manually withdrawn, while the stack of sheets is biased toward the first end wall. The biasing is provided by a strip of non metallic material bent to provide the biasing force and to provide space within it in which refill stacks of sheets or other items may be stored.

Refillable sheet dispenser with storage

An advertising assembly which comprises a paper or polymeric backing layer having opposite major surfaces printed with advertising indicia; and a plurality of sheets each comprising a layer of flexible polymeric material having a coating of repositionable pressure sensitive adhesive on one of its side surfaces on a second end portion adjacent a second end while being free of adhesive on both of its side surfaces along a first end portion. The sheets are releasably adhered in parallel rows to the first surface of the backing layer by the coatings of pressure sensitive adhesive with the sheets in each row being positioned with their side edge surfaces adjacent and with their first end portions aligned, and can be printed with advertising indicia.

Advertising assembly

A pad of regular hexagonal flexible sheets each having a front surface adapted to be written on, and a coating of repositionable pressure sensitive adhesive over a portion of its rear surface releasably adhering the sheet to an underlying sheet in the pad. Information can be written on the front of the sheets, and the individual written on sheets can be adhered to a planar surface in side by side relationship with edge portions of up to six adjacent sheets in contact to represent relationships between the information on the sheets.

Hexagonal pad

A dispenser for a stack of sheets disposed in a stack with each of the sheets having a band of adhesive coated on a portion of its bottom surface adjacent one edge by which the sheet is releasably adhered to the top surface, of the adjacent sheet in the stack, the sheets being stacked with the bands of adhesive of adjacent sheets at alternate opposite sides of the stack. The dispenser includes normally generally planar top wall formed by a single layer of resiliently flexible polymeric material and having two opposed portions with a slot therebetween through which the uppermost sheet in the stack can be withdrawn, whereupon the top wall portion adjacent the band of adhesive on the uppermost sheet will flex away from the stack to form a surface adjacent the stack along which the sheet being withdrawn and the end of the second uppermost sheet in the stack to which the band of adhesive on the sheet being withdrawn is adhered can slide, and the top wall portion opposite the band of adhesive on the withdrawn uppermost sheet will place drag on the second uppermost sheet in the stack so that the force applied to withdraw the uppermost sheet will peel the uppermost sheet away from the end of the second uppermost sheet in the stack after it is withdrawn through the slot rather than fully withdrawing the second sheet through the slot.

Dispenser for a stack of sheets

The combination of (1) sheets of note paper in a stack with each of the sheets having a narrow band of adhesive coated on its bottom surface along one edge by which the sheet is adhered to the top surface of the adjacent sheet in the stack, the sheets being stacked with the band of adhesive of adjacent sheets at alternate opposite sides of the stack, and (2) a dispenser comprising a housing closely receiving the top, bottom and first side surfaces of the stack of sheets. The housing includes a top wall of flexible material adjacent the top surface of the stack, which top wall has through flanking slits parallel to and flanking side surfaces of the stack and generally centered along those side surfaces, and spaced edge surfaces extending between the flanking slits. The flanking slits and edge surfaces define two opposed flap like portions of the top wall and a slot through the top wall between the flap like portion through which slot projects a portion of the uppermost sheet in the stack. When the uppermost sheet in the stack is withdrawn through the slot the flap like portion adjacent the band of adhesive on the uppermost sheet will flex away from the stack to form a convex arcuate surface adjacent the stack along which the sheet being withdrawn and the end of the second uppermost sheet in the stack to which the band of adhesive is adhered can slide to thereby restrict curling of the sheets, and the flap like portion opposite the band of adhesive on the withdrawn uppermost sheet will place drag on the second uppermost sheet in the stack so that the force applied to withdraw the uppermost sheet will peel the uppermost sheet away from the end of the second uppermost sheet in the stack after it is withdrawn through the slot rather than fully withdrawing the second sheet through the slot.

Dispenser for a small stack of note paper

A pad of regular hexagonal flexible sheets each having a front surface adapted to be written on, and a coating of repositionable pressure sensitive adhesive over a portion of its rear surface releasably adhering the sheet to an underlying sheet in the pad. Information can be written on the front surfaces of the sheets, and the individual written on sheets can be adhered to a planar surface in side by side relationship with edge portions of up to six adjacent sheets in contact to represent relationships between the information on the sheets.

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Lake Elmo, MN, United States of America

Douglas P Bodziak