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Cellophane is the most popular material for manufacturing cigar packaging; its permeability to water vapor makes cellophane a good product for this application as cigars must be allowed to "breathe" while wrapped and in storage. Cellophane sales have dwindled since the 1960s, due to alternative packaging options.
Richard Gurley Drew (June 22, 1899 – December 14, 1980) was an American inventor who worked for Johnson and Johnson, Permacel Co., and 3M in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he invented masking tape and cellophane tape.
Pressure-sensitive tape or pressure-sensitive adhesive tape (PSA tape) is an adhesive tape that sticks when pressure is applied without the need for a solvent (such as water) or heat for activation. It is also known in various countries as self-stick tape , sticky tape , or just adhesive tape and tape , as well as genericized trademarks , such ...
The Scotch brand includes many different constructions (backings, adhesives, etc.) and colors of tape. The use of the term Scotch in the name was a pejorative meaning "parsimonious" in the 1920s and 1930s. The brand name Scotch came about around 1925 while Richard Drew was testing his first masking tape to determine how much adhesive he needed ...
Scotch tape: Clear adhesive tape (US) 3M: Appears in dictionaries as both generic and trademarked. [196] "Trademark Law" advises that proper usage is "Scotch brand cellophane tape" to combat "generic tendencies". [197] Ski-Doo: Snowmobile: Bombardier Recreational Products: Usage in Canada, especially Quebec and British Columbia. [198] Sea-Doo
The tape can be used to repair tears in paper, or to attach pieces of paper or cardboard together for modelling. On fragile paper surfaces the tape can only be used once, as removing it will either tear the paper or remove the top layer of rough cardboard; on smooth painted surfaces it can generally be removed without leaving any trace, though sometimes the adhesive can remain on the surface ...
The article implies that cellophane is the current base material of Scotch Tape. This may have been true far in the past, but it seems very dubious that it would be true in modern times. The Scotch Tape article does not seem to agree with this article. - 96.237.4.73 ( talk ) 15:27, 2 February 2013 (UTC) [ reply ]
Dennison Mending Tape from the second half of the 20th century. From the Museo del Objeto del Objeto collection. Pressure-sensitive tape, PSA tape, self-stick tape or sticky tape consists of a pressure sensitive adhesive coated onto a backing material such as paper, plastic film, cloth, or metal foil. It is sticky (tacky) without any heat or ...