Assembly for dispensing full adhesive notes

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10457085-B2
Application number	US-201716069534-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 20, 2017
Priority date	Feb 22, 2016
Publication date	Oct 29, 2019
Grant date	Oct 29, 2019

Abstract

An assembly for dispensing full adhesive notes comprising: a pad comprising a plurality of full adhesive notes arranged in a dispensing stack; and a retention surface comprising a mounting face and adjacent recessed portion; wherein the adhesive on the bottommost note is adhered to the mounting face and portions of the note extend beyond the mounting face.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An assembly for dispensing adhesive notes comprising:
a pad comprising a plurality of adhesive notes, wherein each adhesive note in the plurality includes a sheet having a front face and a back face and an adhesive on the back face of the sheet and wherein the adhesive covers at least 75% of the surface area of the back face of the sheet; and
a dispenser including a retention feature adapted to receive and secure the pad, the retention feature comprising a pillar having a mounting face and a recessed portion surrounding the pillar;
wherein the adhesive note directly adjacent to the pillar is adhered to the mounting face of the pillar and wherein a surface area of the adhesive is greater than a surface area of the mounting face, and wherein a geometric center of the adhesive is aligned over the mounting face.

2. The assembly of claim 1 wherein the sheets comprise paper.

3. The assembly of claim 1 wherein the adhesive covers at least 85 percent of the surface area of the back face of the sheet.

4. The assembly of claim 1 wherein the notes have an aspect ratio of from about 2:1 to about 1:2.

5. The assembly of claim 1 wherein the notes are substantially rectangular in shape.

6. The assembly of claim 1 wherein the surface area of the mounting face is equal to from about 15 percent to about 40 percent of the surface area of the adhesive portion of the notes.

7. The assembly of claim 1 wherein the surface area of the mounting face is equal to from about 20 percent to about 30 percent of the surface area of the adhesive portion of the notes.

8. The assembly of claim 1 wherein the dimensions of the mounting face are about 1.5 inches×1.5 inches (3.8 cm by 3.8 cm) and the dimensions of the sheets are about 3 inches by 3 inches ((7.7 cm by 7.7 cm).

9. The assembly of claim 1 wherein the height of the mounting face is at least about 0.03 inch (0.8 mm) above the level of the recessed portion.

10. The assembly of claim 1 wherein the height of the mounting face is at least about 0.06 inch (1.5 mm) above the level of the recessed portion.

11. The assembly of claim 1 wherein the height of the mounting face is at least about 0.12 inch (3 mm) above the level of the recessed portion.

12. The assembly of claim 1 wherein the retention feature comprises one or more peripheral wall segments.

13. The assembly of claim 12 wherein at least part of the one or more peripheral wall segments extends to a height at least as high above the mounting face as the thickness of the pad.

14. The assembly of claim 13 wherein at least one of the one or more peripheral wall segments is profiled to have a relatively shorter height at some portion and relatively taller height at another portion.

Assignees

• 3M Innovative Properties Co

Inventors

• Bodziak Douglas P
• Turner Traxton J
• Mueller Gerald E
• Ducharme Jordan C
• Tipping Daniel J

Classifications

• B42D5/005 Primary

  Supports for note-pads (B42F9/00 takes precedence; underlays B43L3/00) · CPC title

• B65D83/08

  for dispensing thin flat articles in succession (for surgical scalpel blades A61B17/3215) · CPC title

• B42D5/003

  Note-pads · CPC title