STRUCTURAL AND NON-STRUCTURAL HOTMELT ADHESIVE AND SEALANT TAPE

摘要

Articles of manufacture are disclosed which are funicularly shaped articles comprising a core of a hot-melt adhesive at least partially encased in a sheath of a plastic resin. Extended lengths of such articles can be wound upon a tubular core for each feed and delivery to a hot-melt adhesive extruder and dispensing apparatus. In a second embodiment of the invention, two or more funicularly shaped elements are encased in an outer plastic resin sheath.