Patent ID: 6458440
Filing Date: 2002-10-01
Classification: B65D,B65G,Y10T

Abstract:
A sheet of a plurality of glass sheet spacers attached to a common backing film said spacers comprising resilient foam bodies having an adhesive-carrying surface comprising a continuous unstepped surface having an adhesive-free portion adjacent an adhesive-carrying portion, adhesive provided at said adhesive-carrying surface of said spacers between said adhesive-carrying portions and said backing film, said adhesive is removable adhesive and said spacers having a second surface spaced from said adhesive-carrying surface by the thickness of said spacers and extending generally parallel to said adhesive-carrying surface and being adhesive free; wherein said spacers are disposed on said common backing film in a grid pattern with a plurality of spacers in one direction of the grid and a plurality of spacers in a transverse direction of the grid, and wherein each said spacer has said adhesive-free portion provided on a flexible finger-lift part of said spacer and at an edge thereof and wherein said spacer has said adhesive-free portion being flexible enough such that when said spacers are attached to a flat glass sheet surface in use a person can bend or roll said finger-lift part of said spacer upwards out of the plane of said adhesive-carrying portion with a finger, thereby facilitating a rolling-off action and/or manual gripping of said finger-lift part of said spacer whilst said adhesive-carrying portion of said spacer is still in contact with said flat surface.