Talk:Pressure-sensitive tape/Archive 1

Date of invention?
The article claims that adhesive tape was invented in 1925, but various web sources (Inventor of the Week Archive) say that the band-aid was invented in 1917 when Earle Dickson stuck a wad of gauze to a strip of surgical tape. (Other pages give a date of 1921: )

In any case, this seems like a contradiction: Isn't surgical tape a form of adhesive tape? What's the 1924 date? When adhesive tape was sold as a general-purpose product?

And then the question I really have is:when was surgical tape invented? --IvyMike 05:56, 27 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I think people have been applying glue to paper (or even leaves) since time immemorial. It's probably impossible to say precisely when it stopped being "bandages + adhesive" and started being "tape"

wow I didn't have any idea what "unwind" meant until I visited this page, cheers!

Invention of tape
According to the manufacture Beiersdorf

Medical adhesive dressing can be traced to Paul Beiersdorf of Hamburg, Germany who took out a patent on a new method of manufacturing medical adhesive dressing. A patent was taken out in 1882. The first technical adhesive tape "Cito" was introduces by Beiersdorf in 1897. Beiersdorf tape product are sold under the Tesa brand.
 * Beiersdorf History


 * Tesa Tape History

The website for Permacel


 * Permacel History

has that the company Johnson & Johnson was producing masking tapes and founded Permacel in 1927 to produce and market masking tape.

RustySpear 00:43, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

According to the website at:

"Pressure-sensitive tape was first developed in 1845 by Dr. Horace Day, a surgeon, who devised a method of applying a natural rubber adhesive to strips of cloth, thus producing a kind of surgical tape which he used in his practice." RustySpear 00:59, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * History of Tape, Pressure-Sensitive Tape and Techniques for its Removal From Paper, By Merrily A. Smith, Norvell M. M. Jones, II, Susan L. Page and Marian Peck Dirda, All four authors are senior paper conservators in the Conservation Office, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., 20540. ,
 * A version of this paper was published in the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation Merrily A. Smith, Norvell M. M. Jones, Susan L. Page, & Marian Peck Dirda. "Pressure-Sensitive Tape and Techniques for its Removal From Paper"   JAIC 1984, Volume 23, Number 2, Article 3 (pp. 101 to 113

Why does it stick?
What makes tape stick? Does it chemically react with what you're sticking it to? I looked around articles like adhesive and adhesion, but they didn't really help. 72.75.19.143 22:53, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Look at Pressure sensitive adhesive.

List happy
This article is far too list happy, so I've marked it with the appropriate template. The important information should be pulled out of list form and made into a substantial article. -Superbeecat 04:18, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Regarding recent attempt to retitle to "Tape"
I have reverted back to the title of Pressure Sensitive Tape: that's what it is. Note that the title for the manufacurers of PSA tape is PSTC. There are many other types of "tape": magnetic tape, gummed tape, etc. Please leave the article titled as Pressure Sensitive Tape. Rlsheehan (talk) 22:57, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Proposal of new title: adhesive tape
I propose to change the title of the article to "adhesive tape", and to change the order of the synonyms listed, based on the following current Googling research:

--Dan Polansky (talk) 17:55, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * No. Please leave it as pressure senisitve tape - - - that is the correct name.  In addition, there are some kinds of "adhesive tapes" which are not pressure sensitive (PSA). Rlsheehan (talk) 22:49, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * YES This is the name by which the population most knows it. Such products are typically sold under the name "adhesive tape."Hellno2 (talk) 00:40, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The industry association calls itself the Pressure Sensitive Tape Council. ASTM standards all call it pressure sensitive tape.  Keep it correct.  "Adhesive tape" links here. Rlsheehan (talk) 00:51, 27 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes Adhesive tape / sticky tape / or some brand name - in the UK the dictionary definition is Sellotape or sellotape (Chambers), "a form of usually transparent adhesive tape". I'd never heard of Pressure sensitive tape before! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ephebi (talk • contribs) 00:24, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Can we at least ditch the ugly caps from the title? They're against the WP:MOS. --99.236.23.76 (talk) 19:47, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, the caps have been removed. The article title needs to remain "Pressure sensitive tape"; the manufacturer's belong to PSTC, ASTM calls it PSA tape.  Rlsheehan (talk) 01:43, 8 May 2008 (UTC)