Patent ID: 7413786

Claim:
An adhesive roll cleaner comprising: a core tube including a plurality of adhesive tapes, each of the adhesive tapes including an adhesive applied to one side thereof to form an adhesive portion, each of the adhesive tapes being helically wound around the core tube in a layered configuration with the adhesive portion out, each of the adhesive tapes being wound with a gap of prescribed width between every adjacent turn, and the adhesive tapes having different widths being arranged in groups such that adjacent tapes in a group that is lowest have a smallest width, adjacent adhesive tapes in a group that is uppermost have a largest width, and a width of adjacent adhesive tapes in an intermediate group, which is positioned between the uppermost and lowest adhesive tapes is between the largest width and smallest width, wherein a width of the gap between adjacent turns increases from an innermost layer with respect to the core tube, to an outermost layer, with respect to the core tube, such that a gap between adjacent turns in the innermost layer is smaller than a gap between adjacent turns in the outermost layer.