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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 1984
Filed:
Jun. 03, 1983
Wallace R Jones, Waite Hill Village, OH (US);
The Excello Specialty Company, Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
A paint mask and method for masking a work surface wherein the mask structure is comprised of a first mask layer and a second liner layer. One face of the first layer includes an adhesive coating with the second layer being adhesively secured thereto. A predetermined design configuration is defined in the mask structure by discontinuous cuts extending through both the first and second layers. Score cuts extending through the second layer in spaced apart generally coextensive relationships with the discontinuous cuts define band-like areas. Removal of these band-like areas exposes band areas of adhesive on the first layer which are used to adhesively secure the mask in a desired orientation on a work surface. The discontinuous cuts facilitate removal of that portion of the mask structure disposed on the other side thereof from the score cuts to be removed from covering association wtih the work surface. Pairs of additional score lines may be advantageously included at strategic locations in the second layer to facilitate ease of removal of the band-like areas and/or to increase the amount of exposed adhesive for securing purposes.