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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 1989
Filed:
Aug. 17, 1987
Patrick G Zimmerman, St. Paul, MN (US);
Gordon G Johnson, Lake Elmo, MN (US);
Susan L Korpela, St. Paul, MN (US);
Caroline L Vernon, Stillwater, MN (US);
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
A pressure-sensitive adhesive tape comprising a plurality of superimposed layers, at least one outer layer being a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, contiguous layers defining an interface therebetween, each of the layers comprising a photopolymerized matrix of polymeric chains; the polymeric chains extending from the matrix of one of the layers through the interface into the matrix of a contiguous layer; the polymeric chains comprising polymerized monomers having migrated from the matrix of each contiguous layer prior to polymerization, whereby the layers cannot be delaminated.