Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

Lyle H Mickschl

Robert C Brown

Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape closures for diapers or other garments are formed from backing strips which are divided into three portions of roughly equal area. One end portion and one of the other portions are surfaced with pressure-sensitive adhesive, while the remaining portion is surfaced with a release material; the latter two portions are folded together. In use, the first end portion is adhered to one garment border, a second border juxtaposed or overlapped, the folded portion of the closure then unfolded, and the thus-exposed adhesive surface adhered to the second border. These closures may be formed by cutting parallel strips across an elongate sheet of appropriately configured convolutely wound adhesive-coated sheet material.

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Hudson, WI, United States of America

Lyle H Mickschl