Polyolefin ribbon having remoistenable adhesive bonded thereto

Abstract From the Canadian patent

An inexpensive easy-to-produce, adhesive-coated, polyolefin ribbon or the like is provided which has desirable remoistenability and excellent peel strength characteristics, notwithstanding elimination of the need of physically treating the polyolefin substrate prior to adhesive coating by methods such as chemical etching or other means of surface abrading. A primer layer is applied and bonded directly to the polyolefin ribbon without any preliminary treatement thereof, and a remoistenable adhesive layer containing polyvinyl alcohol is applied over the primer layer and bonded thereto to complete the ribbon. In preferred forms, the primer layer includes respective quantities of ethylene vinyl …