Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

3m Innovative Properties Company

Kirit C Mody

Bernard D Campbell

Ronald Wayne Ausen

William Keith Leonard

Richard J Rolando

Alan J Sipinen

Curtis L Larson

Walter R Romanko

William C Unruh

Shou-Lu G Wang

Stephen P Polski

Michael W Mills

Roy D Erickson

Michael W G Mills

Hang N Tran

There is provided a mechanical fastener bundling strap comprising a bundling strap having a first face and a second face with a bar code readable through hook elements on a first face. The first face is formed by a thermoplastic hook strip material having a first face and a second face. The hook strip first face has an array of upstanding hook projections which form at least in part the first face of the bundling strap, the second face of the hook strip comprises a film which film is provided with a printed UPC code readable through the hook strip first face.

Bundling strap

A mechanical fastener is provided which is lightweight, thin, flexible, and strong, and whose holding power is as great as, or greater than, the holding power of conventional hook and loop type fasteners.

High strength, flexible, light weight hook and loop bundling straps

A hook fastener portion is disclosed for use in a hook and loop fastener that has a woven backing with portions of pile monofilaments projecting from its front surface providing hooks adapted for making releasable engagement with loops of the fastener. In another embodiment, a hook fastener-portion is disclosed for interengagement with an opposed, like hook fastener portion. A layer of thermoplastic material along a rear surface of the backing and the mechanical engagement of the portions of the pile monofilaments woven into the backing anchor the monofilaments in the backing, and that layer of thermoplastic material can be a hot melt adhesive used to adhere the hook fastener portion to a substrate.

Disposable diaper with fastener

A hook fastener portion for use in a hook and loop fastener that has a woven backing with portions of pile monofilaments projecting from its front surface providing hooks adapted for making releasable engagement with loops of the fastener. Only a layer of thermoplastic material along a rear surface of the backing and the mechanical engagement of the portions of the pile monofilaments woven into the backing anchor the monofilaments in the backing, and that layer of thermoplastic material can be a hot melt adhesive used to adhere the hook fastener portion to a substrate.

Disposable diaper with thermoplastic material anchored hook fastener

A storage/dispensing assembly, e.g., a roll or stack, of loop fastener material such as is used in hook and loop fastening system comprising one or more multilayer sheets of loop fastener material arranged such that the adhesive layer of an overlying portion of the loop fastener material is in direct contact with the loop layer of an underlying portion of the loop fastener material. The loops are such that, when the overlying portion of the loop fastener material is removed from the assembly, the loops of the underlying portion are presented in an engagable state. Also, a method for dispensing such loop material from such assemblies such that as the adhesive layer of the overlying portion is separated from the loops of the underlying portion, the loops of the underlying portion are presented in an engagable state.

Loop fastener material storage/dispensing assembly

A unified, composite tape structure comprising two outer pressure-sensitive adhesive layers and a backing joined via melt processing. At least one of the backing and two outer adhesive layers is not mutually coextensive. A method of making the tape comprising the use of melt processing is also disclosed.

Double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape and method of making

A method utilizing melt processing for making a unified, composite tape structure that includes two outer pressure-sensitive adhesive layers and a backing wherein at least one of the two outer adhesive layers is not mutually coextensive.

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Shoreview, MN, United States of America

Kirit C Mody