Abstract Pressure-sensitive elements, preferably carried in web form suitable for machine handling, are left bare of the pressuresensitive coating along one edge to provide a convenient portion used as a handle in some forms, as a hanger in other forms. In one form the pressure-sensitive elements are coated on both sides except for a very narrow edge, being easily lifted at the edge and then seized and pulled from the web together with a guard piece. In other forms, where the handle portion serves primarily as a hanger, the element is made of sturdy plastic. For some purposes the plastic and its adhesive preferably have sufficient transparency so that the hanger may be secured to a package without concealing any printed matter thereon. In some hanger forms, the element is slit so that if the part by which something is hung starts to peel therefrom, it will peel past portions which are separated from it so that they do not peel with it, these then resisting further peeling.
A web of double-faced pressure-sensitive stickers having the pressure-sensitive coatings arranged on opposite faces along a longitudinally extending zone extending less than the full width of the web, leaving each sticker with an edge portion bare on both faces by which it may be manipulated, said adhesive portions each being covered by a carrier strip guarding one face, and a guard strip guarding the other face and extending over the bare edge portion of each sticker whereby the edges of the sticker and guard strip may be jointly curled and grasped for joint removal from the carrier strip, the double-faced web and said guard strip being jointly readily separable along successive predetermined transverse lines while the carrier strip is relatively tearresistant as compared to the double faced web and guard strip, whereby successive separate stickers, each with its guard piece portion of the guard strip, may be jointly pulled loose from the carrier strip by grasping the uncoated zone, then jointly applied to one of two things to be joined; the guard piece then being removed by grasping its free edge.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
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A web of double-faced pressure-sensitive stickers having the pressure-sensitive coatings arranged on opposite faces along a longitudinally extending zone extending less than the full width of the web, leaving each sticker with an edge portion bare on both faces by which it may be manipulated, said adhesive portions each being covered by a carrier strip guarding one face, and a guard strip guarding the other face and extending over the bare edge portion of each sticker whereby the edges of the sticker and guard strip may be jointly curled and grasped for joint removal from the carrier strip, the double-faced web and said guard strip being jointly readily separable along successive predetermined transverse lines while the carrier strip is relatively tearresistant as compared to the double faced web and guard strip, whereby successive separate stickers, each with its guard piece portion of the guard strip, may be jointly pulled loose from the carrier strip by grasping the uncoated zone, then jointly applied to one of two things to be joined; the guard piece then being removed by grasping its free edge.