Patent ID: 8512851

Claim:
A continuous wrapping material comprising: a plurality of wrapping units, each one of said plurality of wrapping units comprises a predetermined length of base wrapping material that extends in a longitudinal direction and terminates with a leading edge at one end thereof and a trailing edge at an opposing end thereof, said leading edge and said trailing edge both extend said predetermined length in a width direction that is transverse to said longitudinal direction and terminate at opposing lateral edges, said each one of said plurality of wrapping units also includes a first surface and an opposing second surface, said each one of said plurality of wrapping units is serially connected to at least another one of said plurality of wrapping units at least one of the corresponding leading and trailing edges forming a continuous wrapping material; a first plurality of discrete spaced-apart adhesive areas disposed on said first surface of the wrapping unit, wherein each wrapping unit of the plurality of wrapping units includes the first plurality of discrete spaced-apart adhesive areas, and a second plurality of discrete spaced-apart adhesive areas disposed on said second surface of the wrapping unit, wherein each wrapping unit of the plurality of wrapping units includes the second plurality of discrete spaced-apart adhesive areas; for each specific wrapping unit, one of the leading edge or trailing edge of each specific wrapping unit is free of both first and second adhesive areas; and each of said first plurality of discrete adhesive areas are longitudinally spaced from one another, each of said second plurality of discrete adhesive areas are longitudinally spaced from one another, and said first plurality of discrete adhesive areas is longitudinally spaced from said second plurality of discrete adhesive areas so that when the continuous wrapping material is rolled onto a roll core none of the first plurality of adhesive areas comes into face-to-face contact with any one or more of said second plurality of adhesive areas and when each wrapping unit is wrapped around an item each one of the first plurality of discrete adhesive areas comes into face-to-face contact with a corresponding one of the second plurality of discrete adhesive areas, wherein at least one of said first plurality of adhesive areas adheres to a non-adhesive portion of said second surface of one of said plurality of wrapping units that is not covered by one of said second plurality of adhesive areas when the continuous wrapping material is rolled onto the roll core to ensure that the wrapping material generally remains rolled until use.