GB2209992A

GB2209992A - Peelable laminates

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Publication number: GB2209992A
Application number: GB8821740A
Authority: GB
Inventors: Noboru Matsuguchi; Tadashi Matsuguchi
Original assignee: Daimatsu Kagaku Kogyo Co Ltd
Current assignee: Daimatsu Kagaku Kogyo Co Ltd
Priority date: 1987-09-18
Filing date: 1988-09-16
Publication date: 1989-06-01
Also published as: GB8821740D0; FR2620722A1; IT1230499B; IT8821977A0

Abstract

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Description

SPECIFICATION TITLE OF THE INVENTION TEMPORARILY STICKING MATERIAL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a temporarily sticking material and a manufacturing method thereof. Principally, the present invention relates to a temporarily sticking material which is preferably used as the sticking material divided into a portion adhered completely to a material to be sticked and a portion adhered weakly thereto, whereby, for example, a portion provided with confidential matters is covered temporarily and if necessary, the portion adhered weakly is peeled off from the material to be sticked for access to the confidential portion, and a manufacturing methoe thereof.

Description of the Prior Arts Conventionally, as seen in Japanese Utility Model Patent Publication No. 54-3789, a laminate material which an innerframe portion can be peeled off partially, has been developed.

However, in order to facilitate peeling partially, as seen in Japanese Utility Model Patent Publication No. 54 3789, a paper must be possible to peel off partially by forming an adhesive surface formed by coating a dry paste entirely on the paper surface, and by subjecting the other base material to a peeling process such as silicon processing so as to be peeled off partially or only one laminate of the laminate material is peeled off. Thus, in the prior art laminate material, since the dry paste must be coated on one laminate side and the peeling processing such as silicon processing must be performed on the other laminate material side in manufacturing, structures of the laminate material become complicated and result in a high manufacturing cost due to many manufacturing processes.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, it is a principal object of the present invention to provide a temporarily sticking material, in which surface treatment of the material to be sticked is not required and only by post-processing of the temporarily sticking material stuck, can be stuck completely and can be peeled off easily after sticking so as to be used in various purposes complying with the user's needs, and a manufacturing method thereof.

A first invention involved relates to a temporarily sticking material comprising a base material opaque at least partly, an inter-layer peel ply formed on the principal surface of the base material, and an adhesive layer formed on the principal surface of an inter-layer peel ply with at least part thereof being transparent.

A second invention involved relates to another manufacturing method of a temporarily sticking material comprising a step of preparing a base material opaque at least partly, a step of forming a inter-layer peel ply by printing or coating a release agent on the principal surface of the base material, and a step of forming an adhesive layer transparent at least partly on the principal surface of the inter-layer peel ply.

According to the present invention, the inter-layer peel ply is formed between the opaque base material and the transparent adhesive layer and base material is stuck to the material to be sticked by means of the aforementioned adhesive layer, and the base material can be peeled off with a relative ease as it is stuck to the transparent adhesive layer relatively weakly where the inter-layer peel ply is formed.

According to the present invention, the base material is stuck to the adhesive layer by means of the inter layer peel ply relatively weakly and is stuck to the material to be sticked still weaker, hence the base material can be peeled off the material to be sticked. After the base material has been peeled off from the material to be sticked, the secret information on the principal surface of the material to be sticked can be seen through the transparent part of the adhesive layer.

Moreover, by appling the temporarily sticking material without processing the material to be sticked, a laminate, which is covered with the base material stuck weakly on the material to be sticked until a covering purpose has been achieved, can be obtained, and the user is required only to do a simple pasting work, this making this type of temporarily sticking material widely applicable.

Furthermore, the temporarily sticking material is just needed to be processed in manufacturing and the material to be sticked is not necessary to be processed, so that its manufacturing process as well as an adhesion machine on the user's side can be simplified with ease.

The aforementioned objects and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from reading of the detailed description of the embodiments given below under reference to the accompanying drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing a temporarily sticking material as an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view showing an application of the above embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an illustrative view showing an example of the method of manufacturing the embodiment shown in FIG. 1.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view a postcard utilized the above embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a state which the base material of the embodiment show in FIG. 4 is peeled off.

FIG. 6A and FIG. 6B are views showing a modification of the aforementioned embodiment, of which FIG. 6A is a sectional view and FIG. 6B is a partly broken-out perspective view.

FIG. 7 and FIG. 8 are illustrative views showing an example of the manufacturing method for the embodiment shown in FIG. 6.

FIG. 9 is a partially plan view showing a separate embodiment of the invention.

FIG. 10 is a partially plan view showing a modification of the embodiment of FIG. 9.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing a temporarily sticking material embodying the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view an application of the aforementioned embodiment.

This temporarily sticking material 10 includes a base material 12 formed of an opaque material.

This base material 12 is formed of a relatively soft material such as paper or a synthetic resin film.

This base material 12, which is required to be opaque and have a suppressiveness, has to be made capable of covering by making it opaque by, for instance, printing it with a silver ink or the like to thereby form a suppression layer or laminating it with a film or foil having suppressiveness such as aluminum foil by the use of an adhesive or the like.

On one principal surface of the aforementioned base material 12, an inter-layer peel ply 14 is formed by printing or coating a wax.

As the wax forming this inter-layer peel ply 14 may be used any of the aminal, vegetable, mineral and petroleumderived waxes, for instance, natural waxes such as paraffin wax, microcrystalline wax or petrolatum wax. Besides, also usable are, among others, Fischer tropush wax and its derivatives, synthetic hydrocarbons such as low-molecular polyethylene and its derivatives, modified waxes such as montan wax derivatives, paraffin wax derivatives and microcrystalline wax derivatives, aliphatic alcohols and acids such as cetyl alcohol and stearic acid, fatty acid esters such us glyceryl stearate and polyethylene glycol stearate, hydrogenated waxes such as glyceride, castor wax and opal wax, synthetic ketone amine amides such as armor wax and acra wax and, further, chlorinated bydrocarbons, synthetic aminal waxes, synthetic waxes such as alpha-olefin wax are as well usable.It is also possible to use mixed waxes containing any of the aforementioned waxes.

On one principal surface of the inter-layer peel ply 14, an adhesive layer 16 transparent at east partly is formed by printing or coating an adhesive of the pressure sensitive type. In this embodiment, the adhesive layer 16 is formed transparent on all surface of the principal surface of the inter-iayer peel ply 14.

To the principal surface of this adhesive layer 16, a release sheet 18 which plays a role of continuously supporting the temporarily sticking material 10 divided into a plurality of parts, at the same time covering and protecting the adhesive layer 16, is temporarily stuck.

Accordingly, the temporarily sticking materials 10 formed from the aforementioned base material 12, the interlayer peel ply 14, and the transparent adhesive layer 16 are formed continuously at a prescribed distance on the release sheet 18, and are formed so that can be easily peeled off the release sheet 18 by the action of the release agent layer formed on the principal surface of the release sheet 18.

Now, to be described is the method of manufacturing the temporarily sticking material, referring mainly to FIG. 3.

First, to be prepared first is a piece of paper as material of the base material 12 and, if the suppressiveness of the paper is insufficient, either principal surface thereof is solid-printed with a silver ink by a known printing method such as offset printing or by coating to thereby form a suppression layer. Alternatively, for formation of this suppression layer, an aluminum foil may be stuck to the principal surface of the paper using, for instance, an adhesive of pressure-sensitive type and this paper-aluminum foil laminate may be used as base material 12.

Meanswhile, a laminate 20 is to be prepared by forming the adhesive layer 16 by application of an adhesive of pressure sensitive type on the principal surface of a release sheet 18 coated with a release agent.

This laminate 20 in a rolled form is mounted on the holding roller 32 of a manufacturing equipment 30 for the temporarily sticking material. Meanwhile, the base material 12 also in a rolled form, is mounted on the holding roller 34 of the same equipment 30.

Then, one end of the rolled-up laminate 20 is pulled out and led into the coating apparatus 36.

This coating apparatus 36 is for coating the surface of the adhesive layer 16 with an inter-layer release agent such as wax agent 14a for formation of the inter-layer peel ply thereon, comprising two rollers 38a and 38b and also a storage vessel 40 and serves to apply by coating the heated and molten inter-layer release agent 14a with the rollers 38a and 38b being revolved.

As this coating apparatus 36, a coating machine such as gravure roll coater or reverse roll coater may be used as well as an well-known printing machine such as offset printing machine or screen printing machine.

Thus, the laminate 20 coated with the inter-layer release agent 14a is led into a laminating machine 42 for further lamination with the base material 12 as shown in FIG. 3.

The laminating machine 42 is for laminating a paper 12a to serve as the base material 12 on the surface of the inter-layer release agent 14a on the laminate 20, is arranged on the path for the laminate 20, and includes a holding roller 34 for holding the base material 12 in roll form.

This paper 12a has one end pulled out and this is introduced between the roller 44a and the opposing roller 44b. Then, the laminate 20 coated with the inter-layer release agent 14a is being led between the rollers 44a and 44b, hence between these rollers 44a and 44b the paper 12a is laid on the laminate 20 with the inter-layer release agent 14a in between. Thus, the laminate 20 with the paper 12a to serve as the base material 12 laid thereon is led through a cooler 46 or cooling roller (not shown).

The cooler 46 is for cooling the inter-layer release agent 14a applied between the laminate 20 and the paper 12a.

In the cooler 46, the inter-layer release agent 14a sandwiched between the laminate 20 and the paper 12a is cooled and solidified to form the inter-layer peel ply 14.

As mentioned above, the laminate further laminated with the base material 12 with the inter-layer peel ply 14 in between is led through a stamping unit 48. The stamping unit 48 includes the so-called die cutter, and by this die cutter proper cuts are made in the base material 12, interlayer peel ply 14, and adhesive layer 18. The stamping unit 48 may as well be of the type having an edged roll, the socalled die roll.

The laminate 20 further laminated with the base material 12 et cetera with cuts made therein is divided as it passes over a roller 50 between necessary and unnecessary parts and the unnecessary parts are wound round a waste take-up roller 52, while the temporarily sticking material 10 (neseccary parts) temporarily stuck to the release sheet 18 is wound round a take-up roller 54.

Instead of the stamping unit 48 and the take-up roller 54, a cut-making unit may as well be used. This cut-making unit includes a cutting blade for making cuts in the base material 12, inter-layer peel ply 14, and adhesive layer 16 so as to divide the temporarily sticking material 10 into a plurality of parts.

The temporarily sticking material 10 is used as following.

For example, as shown in FIG. 4, to concealed the secret information such as the balance of a person's bank deposit on the surface of the postcard, the material to be sticked A such as the postcard is sent in successively, and the temporarily sticking material 10 is unrolled. When the temporarily sticking material 10 is longer than the material to be sticked A, the size of the temporarily sticking material 10 is adjusted by cutting it in a suitable size.

Next, one sticking material of the temporarily sticking material 10 adjusted in the suitable size is stacked on a suitable part of the material to be sticked sent, and is sticked with the adhesive power of the adhesive layer 16 of the temporarily sticking material 10 surface by pressing the surface of the material to be sticked A with a pressing roller.

When pressed and sticked these, the base material 12 of the temporarily sticking material 10 is stuck weakly because of the presence of the inter-layer peel ply 14.

Hence, as shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 5, the due recipient can be peeled off the base material 12 from the material to be sticked easily, and can see the secret information such as the balance of the porsion's bank deposit under it through the transparent parts of the adhesive layer 16.

As examples of the base material 12 there can be cited, besides the one shown in the aforementioned embodiment, synthetic paper, films of cellophane, polyethylene, polyester and the like or a aluminum foil et cetera, but it is advisable to choose one relatively soft lest this temporarily sticking material 10 stuck to the material to be sticked A should accidentally come off the material to be sticked A against the adhesion of the interlayer peel ply 14.

When as the base material 12 what is excellent in suppressiveness such as aluminum foil has been selected, formation of a suppression layer such as in the aforementioned embodiment may be dispensed with.

Although in the aforementioned embodiment continuous paper in roll form was selected as the base material 12, it may as well be separated in sheet form.

The surface of the base material 12 may be printed in a mode suited for the material to be sticked A, and when the base material 12, and inter-layer peel ply 14 are formed to be continuous, marks for checking the feeding pitch of the base material 12 such as black arrows may be printed as shown in FIG. 4.

FIG. 6A and FIG. 6B are views showing a temporarily sticking material as a modification of the aforementioned embodiment.

As shown in FIG. 6A, the temporarily sticking material 60 includes a base material 62, inter-layer peel ply 64, transparent adhesive layer 66 and release sheet 68.

In this temporarily sticking material 60, a part of the adhesive layer 66 is spotly stuck directly to the base material 62, as shown in FIG. 6B.

Hence, where the inter-layer peel ply 64 is not formed, the base material 62 is stuck to the adhesive layer 66 relatively strongly so that there is little risk of the base material 62 being accidentally peeled off the adhesive layer 66 even where the inter-layer peel ply 64 is present.

Now, described below is the method of manufacturing the temporarily sticking material 60 illustrated in FIG. 6A and FIG. 6B, referring mainly to FIG. 7 and FIG. 8.

FIG. 7 is an illustrative view showing an example of manufacturing equipment for a laminate 70 formed by laminating the base material 62 and inter-layer peel ply 64.

The illustrated manufacturing equipment 80 for this laminate 70 includes a holding roller 82 for holding the strip-like base material 62 in roll form. The base material 62 held by the holding roller 82 has one end thereof pulled out and this end is led into an inter-layer release agent coating unit 84.

This inter-layer release agent coating unit 84 is for printing or coating the surface of the base material 62 with an inter-layer release agent 64a such as wax, and includes two rollers 86a and 86b.

The inter-layer release agent 64a is applied to the roller 86a. Hence, when the rollers 86a and 86b are revolved, the surface of the base material 62 being led therebetween is printed or coated with the interlayer release agent 64a except for spots.

As the inter-layer release agent coating unit 84 may as well be used a coating machine of some other type or a known printing machine such as offset printing machine or screen printing machine.

The base material 62 printed or coated with this interlayer release agent 64a is then led through a drying unit 88 for solidification of the inter-layer release agent 64a.

The laminate with the inter-layer release agent 64a solidified on its surface in the drying unit 88 is properly wound up in roll form after solidlfication of the inter-layer release agent 64a.

And the laminate 70 wound up in roll form as shown in FIG. 8 is then loaded in a laminating unit 90 for formation of an adhesive layer 66.

In this laminating unit 90 a release sheet 68 is loaded in roll form, one end thereof is pulled out and is led into an adhesive coating unit 92 for having the surface of the release sheet 68 printed or coated with an adhesive 66a such as an adhesive of the pressure sensitive type.

The adhesive coating unit 92 includes two rollers 94a and 94b.

The roller 94b has its lower part kept dipped in the adhesive 66a in the bottom portion of a pan 94c.

Hence when the rollers 94a and 94b are revolved, the surface of the release sheet 68 is printed or coated with the adhesive 66a. As this adhesive coating unit 92 may as well be used a coating machine of some other type or a printing machine of a known type such as offset printing machine or screen printing machine.

The release sheet 68 thus printed or coated with the adhesive 66a is then led through a drying unit 96 including, for example, a heater. In the drying unit 96, the adhesive 66a applied to the surface of the release sheet 68 by printing or coating is dried to form the adhesive layer 66.

The release sheet 68 with the adhesive layer 66 formed thereon is led into a laminating unit 98.

Meanwhile, the aforementioned laminate 70 is held in roll form on a separate holding roller 100, one end thereof is pulled out and this end is led into the laminating unit 98. The laminating unit 98 includes two rollers 102a and 102b. Between these two rollers 102a and 102b, the laminate of the release sheet 68 and the adhesive layer 66 is passed through together with the laminate 70 so that the inter-layer peel ply 64 of the laminate 70 is stuck to and laminated on the adhesive layer 66. When these rollers 102a and 102b are revolved, the laminate of the adhesive layer 66 et cetra and the inter-layer peel ply 64 of the laminate 70 passing therethrough are stuck together and the temporarily sticking material 60 is formed thereby.

The temporarily sticking material 60 formed is wound round a take-up roller 104 to be kept in roll form.

When this is to be used, the roll may be unrolled and stamped in the desired shape as described above.

In each embodiments, the cuts may be formed along all edges of the base material. When the cuts are formed like that, the center portion of the temporarily sticking material is peeled off easily. In this case, as shown in FIG. 9, when each cuts are constituted with a linear cut portion and a curvilinear cut portion respectively so as to overlap a part of one cut 224 and a part of the next cut 224 in a direction for peeling the temporarily sticking material 210, the center portion of the sticking material 210 can be peeled off easily. In addition, for peeling off the center portion of the temporarily sticking material easily, as shown in FIG.

10, for example, linear cuts 324 formed along edges of the base material 312 on a slant so to overlap a part of one cut 324 and a part of the cuts 324 in a direction for peeling off the temporarily sticking material 310.

The present invention, preferred embodiments thereof, having thus been described and illustrated in detail, it is to be understood that such description and illustration made above are solely for the purpose of explanation and are by no means limitation, and the spirit and scope of the resent invention is limited only by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A temporarily sticking material comprising: a base material opaque at least partly; an inter-layer peel ply formed on the principal surface of said base material; and an adhesive layer formed on the principal surface of said inter-layer peel ply, being transparent at least partly.

2. A temporarily sticking material in accordance with claim 1, wherein said base material has a suppression layer formed on the principal furnace of the side on which said inter-layer peel ply is formed.

3. A temporarily sticking material in accordance with claim 1, wherein said inter-layer peel ply is formed by printing or coating with a wax.

4. A method of manufacturing a temporarily sticking matelial comprising: a step of preparing a base material opaque at least partly; a step of forming an inter-layer peel ply by printing or coating a inter-layer release agent on the principal surface of said base material; and a step of forming an adhesive layer transparent at least partly on the principal surface of said inner-layer peel ply.

5. A method of manufacturing a temporarily sticking material in accordance with claim 4, wherein a step of preparing said base material with a supression layer formed on one principal surface thereof.

6. A method of manufacturing a temporarily sticking material in accordance with claim 4, wherein said inter-layer release agent is a wax.