Patent ID: 7296301

Claim:
A disposable knee-pad comprising: (a) an outer casing consisting of an oblong sheet of durable, flexible, impermeable, chemical-resistant plastic, which outer casing has peripheral edges which are folded inward toward the center of the oblong sheet to form a concave cavity within the outer casing; (b) a padding layer located inside the concave cavity of the outer casing, which padding layer consists of a flexible, resilient natural or synthetic padding material; (c) a permanent adhesive layer located between the padding layer and the peripheral edges of the outer casing, which permanent adhesive layer is permanently adhesively bonded to the padding layer, the peripheral, edges of the outer casing, and a temporary adhesive layer, which temporary adhesive layer constitutes the area of the knee pad which detachably adheres to a pants leg, and which temporary adhesive layer consists of a non-permanent, pressure sensitive adhesive that will not damage a typical work pants fabric or leave adhesive residue thereupon when the knee-pad is detached from the pants leg; and (d) a peel sheet which overlays and protects the temporary adhesive layer before the knee-pad is readied for attachment to a pants leg, and which peel sheet is removed, thereby exposing the temporary adhesive layer, prior to attaching the knee-pad to a pants leg.