Paul, Minnesota. At the time, 3M only made sandpaper. The brand Scotch came about while Richard Drew was testing his first masking tape to determine how much adhesive he needed to add. The troops needed a waterproof tape that could seal considers and repair equipment. The cloth tape was coated with Polyethylene and Duct Tape was born.
The full understanding of adhesion and adhesive tapes continued to evolve and will only lead to new adhesive tape in the future. Today, there are too many adhesive formulations and applications to name, but we provide a pretty darn good list of tapes here. It is interesting that our discovery and adhesive tape history all started with tree sap!
Here is a well made video from the Science Channel to help you understand how tape is made. Adhesive Tape Consultant. Tape Tape History. Tape Glossary. PSA Tape. Heat Activated Tape. He took a correspondence course in machine design, and was soon hired as a lab tech by the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, which was then in the business of manufacturing sandpaper.
That was another household must-have: masking tape. In the s, two-tone cars were trendy. Workers needed to mask off part of the car while they painted the other, and often used glued-on newspaper or butcher paper for the job. But that was difficult to get off, and often resulted in a sticky mess. Drew walked into an auto body shop one day and heard the " choicest profanity I'd ever known " coming from frustrated workers. So he promised a better solution. He spent the next two years developing a tape that was sticky yet easy to remove.
He experimented with everything from vegetable oil to natural tree gums. A company executive, William McKnight, told Drew to stop messing around and get back to his regular job, which he did, but Drew kept doing tape experiments on his own time.
But his first version of masking tape only had adhesive on the edges. When the painters used it, it fell off. Most of us carry a cell phone and there are pieces of various die cut tapes bonding the various layers together and sealing out dust, dirt, and moisture. The tap products we convert at Tom Brown, Inc. The adhesives on our double coated film tapes we use for gasket fabrication is a synthetic version of that India rubber used by Dr.
Day in The acrylic adhesives on our high performance bonding and sealing tapes are more sophisticated. They rely on the reaction of various acrylic monomers in solvent. They can do amazing things such as holding large pieces of glass into metal extrusions on large building without the need for mechanical fasteners. Category: Tom Brown Inc News.
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