US4895745A
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Dark acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive
Assignee: 3M Co
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Filing: 1989-02-21
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Granted: 1990-01-23
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Expires: 2009-02-21
Abstract
Abstract A pressure-sensitive adhesive tape can be produced by photopolymerization and yet its pressure-sensitive adhesive layer can have a dark appearance when it contains a pigment or dye plus finely divided hydrophobic silica. As compared to a tape which is identical except for omission of the hydrophobic silica, the adhesive layer of the tape is substantially darker and usually of substantially more intense color. Furthermore, the tape exhibits better adhesive properties than do otherwise identical tapes containing no silica. The pressure-sensitive adhesive preferably is an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive and may be filled with glass microbubbles which afford a foamlike appearance and character.
Inventors
- 👤 George F. Vesley
- 👤 Jurgen Klingen
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-27 07:12
CPC Classifications
C; C09; C09J; C09J7/00; C09J7/30; C09J7/38; Y; Y10; Y10T; Y10T428/00; Y10T428/14; Y10T428/1414; Y10T428/249921; Y10T428/249953; Y10T428/249971; Y10T428/249974; Y10T428/249982; Y10T428/249984; Y10T428/28; Y10T428/2852; Y10T428/2878; Y10T428/2891; Y10T428/29; Y10T428/2982; Y10T428/2991; Y10T428/2993; Y10T428/2996
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 17
Claim 1
Independent Claim
72 words
A colored acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive tape comprising a flexible carrier supporting a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in which is dispersed a pigment or dye plus hydrophobic silica having a surface area of at least 10 m 2 /g and in an amount comprising by weight from about 2 phr to about 15 phr, wherein said tape has a more intense color than an identical tape in which the adhesive contains no hydrophobic silica.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
72 words
A colored acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive tape comprising a flexible carrier supporting a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in which is dispersed a pigment or dye plus hydrophobic silica having a surface area of at least 10 m 2 /g and in an amount comprising by weight from about 2 phr to about 15 phr, wherein said tape has a more intense color than an identical tape in which the adhesive contains no hydrophobic silica.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
16 words
Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape as defined in claim 1 wherein said pigment or dye comprises carbon black.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
34 words
Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape as defined in claim 2 wherein the adhesive layer contains microbubbles and has a thickness of about 1.0 mm, and the carbon black comprises 0.08-0.1 phr of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
24 words
Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape as defined in claim 1 wherein the surface area of the hydrophobic silica is from 50 to 400 m 2 /g.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
35 words
Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape as defined in claim 1 wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive comprises at least one copolymer of monomers comprising (a) acrylic acid ester of nontertiary alcohol and (b) copolymerizable monomer having a polar group.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
35 words
Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape as defined in claim 5 wherein the monomer (a) comprises a major proportion of acrylic acid ester of nontertiary alkyl alcohol, the molecules of which have from 1 to 14 carbon atoms.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
46 words
Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape as defined in claim 6 at least a major proportion of said molecules have a carbon-to-carbon chain of 4-12 carbon atoms terminating at the hydroxyl oxygen atom, said chain containing at least about one-half the total number of carbon atoms in the molecule.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
17 words
Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape as defined in claim 7 wherein the copolymerizable monomer (b) is predominately acrylic acid.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
39 words
Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape as defined in claim 7, having first and second surfaces wherein the copolymerizable monomer (b) at said first surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is predominantly acrylic acid and at said second surface is predominantly N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
25 words
Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape as defined in claim 1 wherein the flexible carrier has a low-adhesion surface from which the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer can be transferred.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
23 words
Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape as defined in claim 1 wherein microbubbles are dispersed throughout a core portion of or the entire pressure-sensitive adhesive layer.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
13 words
Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape as defined in claim 11 wherein the microbubbles are glass.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
12 words
Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape as in claim 11 wherein the microbubbles are polymeric.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
40 words
Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape as defined in claim 11 wherein microbubbles are dispersed throughout a core portion of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and covering that core portion is a relatively thin, dense, microbubble-free pressure-sensitive adhesive layer containing a pigment of dye.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
19 words
Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape as defined in claim 1 wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is at least in part celluar.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
35 words
Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape as defined in claim 15 wherein said pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is in part celluar, and the celluar portion covered with a relatively thin, dense pressure-sensitive adhesive layer containing a pigment or dye.
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