Patent ID: 7108220

Claim:
An adhesive tape for a flying reel splice, comprising: a) a carrier material comprising an upper side and a lower side; b) first and second cleavable systems, comprising first and second paper carriers, respectively, which are adhesively bonded on one side to the lower side of the carrier material, wherein the first and second cleavable systems are separated by a distance W of 3–50 mm; and c) a self-adhesive compound applied on the upper side of the carrier material and on the side of the first and second paper carriers opposite said one side, wherein the carrier material is wider than a combined width of the first cleavable system, the second cleavable system and the distance W, and the first cleavable system is arranged in a region of a leading edge of the adhesive tape at a distance V of 0.5–15 mm, and the second cleavable system is arranged in a middle portion of the adhesive tape.