Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

3m Innovative Properties Company

Robert P Molenda

Douglas P Bodziak

Michael S Groess

Ray A Hunder

Steven L Grovender

Randall M Mills

Lee A Timmerman

Steven P Roth

George R Rabuse

A pad comprising a plurality of flexible sheets in a stack, and padding means for releasably adhering parts of the major surfaces of adjacent sheets in the stack together to maintain the sheets in the stack. That padding means is provided in that at least some of said sheets having patterns of coadhesive coated on their major surfaces, which patterns of coadhesive are adhered to patterns of coadhesive on adjacent sheets in the stack and releasably adhere parts of the major surfaces of adjacent sheets in the stack together in surface to surface relationship until the patterns of coadhesive are peeled apart.

Pad including coadhesively adhered sheets

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 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.

An advertising insert for ad signatures in magazines is convenient when comprised of a readily peelable and adhesively repositionable sheet bearing a coupon, phone number or the like which is part of a backer which can be removed along perforations from an edge adhered to the ad signature.

Repositionable advertising insert

A staple-supporting strip for use with staples when binding documents together which affords removal and retention of the staples. The staple-supporting strip comprises a narrow elongate strip of tough polymeric material between 0.1 and 0.15 mm thick. The strip may be colored or printed with a window identifying the area for reception of the staples. A narrow coating of a low-tack pressure-sensitive adhesive facilitates positioning of the strip on the uppermost sheet of the documents to be stapled together.

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Stillwater, MN, United States of America

Robert P Molenda