Stock material or miscellaneous articles – Layer or component removable to expose adhesive
Patent
1998-04-06
2000-06-06
Ahmad, Nasser
Stock material or miscellaneous articles
Layer or component removable to expose adhesive
283 81, 428 416, 428 419, 428 421, 428 422, 428 43, 428192, 428194, 462 72, 462 75, 462901, B42D 500
Patent
active
060715847
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a notepad which comprises a stack of notes joined along a rear edge, for example by strips of pressure-sensitive adhesive, and to a process for its production.
2. Description of Related Art
Notepads in which usually 50 or 100 notes of in each case square or rectangular cross section are stacked one on top of the other in such a way that the pad as a whole is given a cuboidal shape are known. The notes are held together in the pad for example by gluing their rear edges in the pad, with the result that in each case one or more notes can be removed from the pad by tearing away from the gluing (the Lumbeck method of adhesive bonding).
Another way of joining the notes to form a notepad is that each note is coated on its rear side with a strip parallel to the edge of a releasable, self-adhesive pressure-sensitive adhesive (pressure-sensitive adhesive bonding). In this case, each note can be removed from the stack, simply by pulling off a note from the notes lying thereunder in the stack, and detachably stuck again onto another surface. For such a notepad comprising self-adhesive pressure-sensitive adhesive notes it is necessary that each note consisting of paper is provided on its upper side with a release coating, acting as a release aid for the adhesive, and on its underside with a primer coating, as the bonding agent for the pressure-sensitive adhesive.
Advertising long ago discovered such notepads as a preferred advertising medium. For this purpose, the individual notes bear an advertising imprint, for example close to the front edge. If all the notes of a notepad are fanned, for example with the thumb from bottom to top, and the individual notes are allowed to return again into their planar position by upward movement of the thumb, an advertising text on each note appears to the observer.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention is based on the object of designing the notepad mentioned at the beginning in such a way that further possibilities for applying advertising are opened up.
For this purpose, it is provided according to the invention that in the stack at least one first note, in which the running direction of the paper fibers extends parallel to the edge, and at least one second note, in which the running direction extends transversely to the edge, follow successively one after the other. Expediently, a plurality of first notes and a plurality of second notes alternately follow successively one after the other. With special advantage, the arrangement of the notes is set up such that between every two successive first notes there is arranged in each case a second note and between every two successive second notes there is arranged in each case a first note. The moisture absorption of the paper has the effect in the case of the first notes of lengthening the first notes transversely to the rear edge in relation to the second notes by a distance which remains less than one millimeter and is therefore virtually invisible to the eye. Furthermore, the first notes can be more easily bent up transversely to the rear edge than the second notes. Therefore, during the fanning open of the notepad according to the invention by a movement of the thumb from bottom to top, the respectively front region of every second note is visible to the observer and can reveal a first advertising imprint (for example: headache?). During the subsequent reverse fanning open of the notes, that is to say by a movement of the thumb from top to bottom, the viewer is presented with the respectively front region of the first notes, which may bear a different advertising imprint, for example involving an idea related to the first advertising imprint (for example: aspirin). Consequently, the notepad according to the invention offers advertising a new possibility which is surprising for the viewer, all the pads nevertheless only having to be printed on their upper side.
Furthermore, it is expedient that the uppermost and lowermost note of the notepad respectiv
REFERENCES:
patent: 3691140 (1972-09-01), Silver
patent: 5827591 (1998-10-01), Blok
Ahmad Nasser
Ritter & Co.
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