Abstract: A pad comprising a plurality of flexible sheets in a stack, and padding means for releasably adhering parts of the major surfaces of adjacent sheets in the stack together to maintain the sheets in the stack. That padding means is provided in that at least some of said sheets having patterns of coadhesive coated on their major surfaces, which patterns of coadhesive are adhered to patterns of coadhesive on adjacent sheets in the stack and releasably adhere parts of the major surfaces of adjacent sheets in the stack together in surface to surface relationship until the patterns of coadhesive are peeled apart.

Abstract: Known laminates can be used to apply graphics to glass panels to present an etched or sand-blasted appearance. Such graphics, which have been cut from a decorative polymeric film of a laminate, can be applied more easily, quickly, and with greater precision when the cover sheet of the laminate is a vented transparent polymeric sheet which bears a layer of vented removable pressure-sensitive adhesive that has been pressed against the graphics. Coextensive with each of the graphics is a layer of aggressive pressure-sensitive adhesive by which the graphics can be applied to a glass panel while wet with a detergent/alcohol/water solution that permits them to be repositioned by a user who can see the graphics through the vented transparent sheet. Positioning is enhanced when the vents are perforations arranged in an orderly pattern such as a rectangular grid.

Abstract: A process for bundling and/or fixing of articles using an extensible plastic tape having a Young modulus of at least approximately 170 bars but less than 7,000 bars and an extensibility in longitudinal direction of at least approximately 150%, with a recovery of less than 50 percent after extension, at least portions of the length of the plastic tape being free of pressure sensitive adhesive. In the process a) the plastic tape is permanently stretched, the permanently stretched tape is arranged around the articles to be bundled and/or fixated, and the ends of the tape are bound together; or b) the plastic tape is permanently stretched, one of its ends is then fixed, and thereafter the permanently stretched plastic tape is arranged around the articles to be bundled and/or fixated, and the other of its ends is fixed; and/or c) one of the ends of the plastic tape is fixed, the plastic tape is permanently stretched and arranged around the articles to be bundled and/or fixated, and the other of its ends is fixed.

Abstract: A sealing strip (5) for a hem flange between two panels (for example, the inner and outer panels (1, 3) of a vehicle door) comprises an inner portion (9) of a tacky, sealing material with an outer part (10) of a non-tacky material, providing the strip with a rounded, shape-retaining, outer surface. To seal the hem flange, the strip (5) is pressed into place along the edge of the flange so that the inner surface (7) of the strip adheres to the panels and the rounded outer surface (10) extends from one panel to the other and covers the tacky material.

Abstract: A wrist rest assembly for use along the front edge of a device to be operated by a person's hands or fingers, such as in front of a computer keyboard, including an elongate base on which is supported an elongate pad comprising a layer of gel within the covering. The pad has sufficient thickness between its top and bottom surfaces and width between its edges to afford supporting a users wrists on the top surface with a portion of the layer of gel beneath and conforming to the supported wrists and to afford significant motion of the top surface of the pad with the supported wrists relative to the bottom surface in a plane generally parallel to the upper surface of the base. The base has a top portion supporting the pad, a bottom portion adapted to be supported on a horizontal surface; and structure that allows the top portion to be supported on the bottom portion with the top surface of the pad at a predetermined one of several different distances above that horizontal surface.

Abstract: A wind instrument that can be used to replicate the calls of birds and animals particularly including the common loon. An instrument having the type of mouthpiece used on a recorder and an elongate body having a bore has an baffle within the bore that closes only a portion of the bore. With the baffle at at least one location in the bore, significant changes can be made in the pitch of the sound being made to replicate calls without movement of the baffle along the bore. The baffle can be fixed and the instrument used to replicate the wail of the common loon, or can be movable so that all of the primary calls of the common loon can be replicated.

Abstract: A mounting composite for removably mounting sheet materials on a vertical wall formed of woven or knitted fabric. The mounting composite comprises a support layer with means along its front surface for retaining and displaying sheet materials, and a fastener attached along a rear major surface of the support layer. The fastener can include a multiplicity of aligned curved hook-like projections, or upstanding stems with mushroom heads. The mounting composite can be firmly removably attached on a vertical wall covered with woven or knitted fabric by engagement of the hook-like projections mushroom heads with the fibers of the fabric.