See also: Scotch tape

The term of Scotch is often used to speak about the Adhesive tape on only one face and transparency, making it possible for example to repair tears, to assemble, or to stick to a wall sheets of paper.

It is a Registered trademark pertaining to the company 3M. The word Scotch must, for this reason, be written with a capital initial. It is more particularly the engineer Dick Drew who invented this adhesive system, in 1925.

History of name

The company 3M painted the body of car, and the fashion of the time was to paint of 2 different colors. The customers required clear and precise delimitations. The solution adopted by the company was to pose newspapers, but this solution posed problem on takeoff because this process damaged painting. Dick Drew, sought with the agreement of its superiors a system more adapted. He invented a broad adhesive tape then, sticking on the 2 edges. The employees of the company 3M, thinking that it was about a saving in adhesive, called it Scottish ribbon ( Scotch tape types ), because of the reputation of the Scot to be sparing. By diminutive, the word Scotchies was used, then Scotch entered the current language.

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• Marks used as names

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