Patent ID: 6887553

Claim:
A roll of masking material having an axis, first and second axially spaced ends, and a predetermined width between said spaced ends, said roll of masking material comprising a coiled elongate sheet, said sheet-having opposite first and second elongate edges, having longitudinal folds defining, with said elongate edges, edges of longitudinally extending portions of said sheet, said longitudinally extending portions of said sheet including pleated portions of said sheet each having opposite major surfaces generally parallel with said axis, said pleated portions being superimposed major surfaces to major surfaces to form a laminate with outermost ones of said superimposed pleated portions defining the opposite outer surfaces of said laminate, and at least some of the edges of said superimposed pleated portions being positioned generally radially aligned at said first end of said roll, said longitudinally extending portions of said sheet further including a first radial portion extending radially of said roll along said radially aligned edges at said first end of said roll from the edge of one of the outermost pleated portions at said first end of said roll and a first distal portion having said first elongate edge of said sheet and extending for a distance less than said predetermined width along the outer surface of the laminate toward the second end of the roll from the edge of said first radial portion opposite the outer most pleated portion to which the first radial portion is attached; said one of the outer most pleated portions to which the first radial portion is attached being disposed radially outwardly of the roll from the other one of said outermost pleated portions in the laminate.