Claims
- 1. A method of fastening a number of pieces of paper together, comprising the steps of:
- separating a fastener which includes a number of patches from a fastener strip, each of said patches including an interleaving portion which has front and back oppositely-facing sides wherein at least a portion of said front and back sides of said interleaving portion are covered with an adhesive, and a cover portion which has front and back oppositely-facing sides, wherein at least a portion of said back side of said cover portion is covered with an adhesive and said front side of said cover portion is free of adhesive;
- attaching said interleaving portions of said patches to said pieces of paper such that said pieces of paper are each fastened to said fastener and are movable relative to each other; and
- attaching the back side of said cover portion to a topmost one of said pieces of paper.
- 2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said separating step includes severing said fastener from said fastener strip along one of a plurality of perforated lines extending across said fastener strip which divide said fastener strip into a plurality of patches.
- 3. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said separating step includes separating said fastener from said fastener strip such that said number of patches is one less than the number of pieces of paper desired to be fastened together.
- 4. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said attaching step includes the steps of partially severing said fastener along a number of perforated lines which extend thereacross to separate said interleaving portions from each other, and attaching said interleaving portions one-by-one to edge portions of said pieces of paper such that each interleaving portion is attached to two pieces of paper, and such that said pieces of paper are arranged in a stack and are movable relative to each other.
- 5. A method as claimed in claim 4, wherein said interleaving portion attaching steps each include the step of peeling a removable film from a front side and a back side of a respective interleaving portion to expose adhesive on said front and back sides.
- 6. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of said patches includes a first pull tab portion which is located intermediate a first edge of said patch and said interleaving portion and which includes front and back oppositely-facing sides which are free of adhesive, and wherein said attaching step includes holding said first pull tab portions of said fastener one at a time to attach respective interleaving portions of said fastener to said pieces of paper without touching said adhesive.
Parent Case Info
This application is a divisional of application Ser. No. 07/644.971, filed Jan. 23, 1991, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,202,169.
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