fully consumed by the thickness of the adhesive layer 18 that is if a 2 mil thick layer of adhesive has been provided on a substrate the thickness of the filament layer will be approximately 2 mils so that if the filaments are pressed into the adhesive such as may occur during manufacture and subsequent handling of the product at least a portion of the segments will still be above the surface of the adhesive layer creating a ratio of about 1 1 filament thickness to adhesive thickness in other arrangements the filament thickness may be about half of the thickness of the adhesive if the adhesive is not particularly flowable such as may be the case with a removable or repositionable adhesive creating a supplemental ratio of about 1 2 filament thickness to adhesive thickness turning now to fig2 of the present invention an alternate open celled web configuration is presented showing a non quadrate pattern of open cells in a honeycomb like arrangement the edge 20 of the pressure sensitive laminate is shown to which the carrier web 21 has been applied and as will be described the carrier web 21 has a series of open cells 22 that are formed by bonding a number of segments 26 and 28 of filaments or strings the filaments or strings are preferably woven into the configuration of the final web assembly before the carrier web is brought into contact with the pressure sensitive laminate alternatively the web can be woven u201c in line u201d that is by feeding the individual segments during the manufacturing process to form the carrier web for the pressure sensitive laminate the bonding of the filaments can occur by application of heat if the filaments are synthetic or may be fused by heat twisting or.