Patent ID: 7892384

Claim:
A method of forming a non-adhesive protruding pull tab at an end of a length of stretch releasing adhesive tape, comprising: providing an elongate length of stretch releasing adhesive tape having first and second oppositely facing major surfaces, both surfaces comprising adhesive; providing a single piece of tab film having first and second oppositely facing major surfaces, at least one major surface being adherable; contacting a first area of the adherable major surface of the tab film with an adhesive-containing area of the first major surface of the adhesive tape, said area being at a terminal end of the adhesive tape, to form a tab/tape bonded area; wrapping the tab film around the terminal end of the adhesive tape such that a portion of the tab film protrudes past a terminal edge of the terminal end of the elongate length of stretch releasing adhesive tape and is in non-contacting relation to the terminal edge; and, contacting a second area of the adherable major surface of the tab film with an adhesive-containing area of the second major surface of the adhesive tape, said area being at the terminal end of the adhesive tape, to form a tab/tape bonded area; wherein a non-adhesive pull tab comprising a protruding tab portion is formed at the terminal end of the elongate length of adhesive tape.