US 12,471,723 B2
Flexible hardgoods with enhanced peel removability
Payam Khodaparast, Minneapolis, MN (US); Erik M. Anderson, Hugo, MN (US); and Kevin W. Weber, Roseville, MN (US)
Assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US)
Filed by 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY, St. Paul, MN (US)
Filed on Aug. 19, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/808,466.
Application 18/808,466 is a continuation of application No. 18/482,370, filed on Oct. 6, 2023, granted, now 12,102,242.
Application 18/482,370 is a continuation of application No. 17/964,207, filed on Oct. 12, 2022, granted, now 11,819,146, issued on Nov. 21, 2023.
Application 17/964,207 is a continuation of application No. 17/296,414, granted, now 11,503,929, issued on Nov. 22, 2022, previously published as PCT/IB2019/061033, filed on Dec. 18, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/781,888, filed on Dec. 19, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2024/0407575 A1, Dec. 12, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A47G 1/17 (2006.01); A47G 25/32 (2006.01); A47G 29/087 (2006.01)
CPC A47G 1/17 (2013.01) [A47G 25/32 (2013.01); A47G 29/087 (2013.01)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A hardgood article for use with a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in mounting an object to a surface, the hardgood article comprising:
a molded body with a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction and a frontward side and a rearward side and having a plurality of discrete body segments arranged at a defined pitch, wherein the molded body is more rigid in the longitudinal direction than in the transverse direction, and
a backplate that has a frontward major face and a rearward major face, that is located on the rearward side of the molded body, and that is a molded backplate that is monolithic with the molded body, and wherein the rearward major surface of the molded backplate is configured to have a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer affixed thereto,
wherein the discrete body segments are elongate with a long axis that is at least generally aligned with the longitudinal direction of the molded body and wherein each discrete body segment comprises a rearward face, the rearward faces of the discrete body segments being in integral contact with areas of the frontward major face of the molded backplate,
and
wherein the molded body comprises a frontwardly-extending mounting projection that is a molded mounting projection that is monolithic with the molded body and that is provided by at least one discrete mounting segment, the at least one discrete mounting segment extending frontwardly from a respective discrete body segment and being elongate with the at least one discrete mounting segment having a long axis that is at least generally aligned with the longitudinal direction of the molded body.