Inventors:
Roger L. Svejkovsky - Austin MN
International Classification:
H01B 708
Abstract:
A thin, flexible, electrically conductive adhesive tape is described suitable for do-it-yourself wiring in low voltage applications including a pair of longitudinally extending parallel electrical conductors each made of a multiplicity of strands of wire enclosed within a backing strip. The backing is paper-thin and can comprise a pair of layers of transparent or translucent plastic material bonded together around the conductors or a single thickness within which the conductors are embedded, the backing being formed for example by co-extrusion of upper and lower layers which are brought together while still in a molten condition so as to fuse together totally enclosing the wires. A stripable cover sheet is preferably provided over a pressure sensitive layer on one surface of the tape. The tape can be separated longitudinally into two tape strips by the provision of a central longitudinally extending line of perforations.