Tape dispenser

• US 3,085,727 A
• Filed: 08/10/1960
• Issued: 04/16/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Edward Waltz
• Original Assignee: Edward Waltz
• Inventors: Waltz, Edward
• Application Number:
  US04/048,746
• Time in Patent Office: 979 Days
• US Class Current: 225/66
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 35/0033 and affixing it to a surface B65H35/004 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1365 Fixed cutter
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 225/269 Blade carrier supports package for rotation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 225/284 With brake applied to supply package
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 225/287 With brake or clamp

Claims

1. A PORTABLE DEVICE FOR DISPENSING TAPE FROM A ROLL THEREOF, COMPRISING:

AN AXIALLY SPLIT, SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL DRUM FOR ROTATABLY SUPPORTING THE ROLL OF TAPE, THE EDGES OF SAID DRUM DEFINING SAID SPLIT BEING SPACED APART WHEN SAID DRUM IS IN THE UNSTRESSED CONDITION, SAID DRUM HAVING A CENTRAL APERTURE FOR RECEIVING THE FINGERS OF A NORMAL ADULT HAND, AND SAID DRUM HAVING TWO PAIRS OF CIRCUMFERENTIALLY ELONGATED AND AXIALLY SPACED OPENINGS LOCATED ON ONE SIDE OF A PLANE INCLUDING THE CENTRAL AXIS OF SAID DRUM AND PASSING THROUGH SAID DRUM ADJACENT THE SPLIT THEREIN, ONE PAIR OF OPENINGS BEING ADJACENT THE SPLIT, BEING CIRCUMFERENTIALLY ALIGNED WITH THE OTHER PAIR OF OPENINGS AND BEING OF SMALLER CIRCUMFERENTIAL LENGTH THAN SAID OTHER PAIR OF OPENINGS;

AN ELONGATED BODY MEMBER HAVING A PAIR OF FLAT, SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL ARMS AND A CONNECTING MEMBER SECURED TO AND EXTENDING BETWEEN SAID ARMS NEAR ONE END OF EACH, SAID ARMS BEING SLIDABLY EXTENDABLE THROUGH SAID OTHER PAIR OF OPENINGS IN SAID DRUM AND HAVING END PORTIONS OF REDUCED SIZE EXTENDABLE INTO THE ONE PAIR OF OPENINGS, WHEREBY MOVEMENT OF SAID ARMS THROUGH SAID DRUM IS LIMITED;

A NOTCH IN EACH OF SAID ARMS DISPOSED WITHIN SAID APERTURE AND REMOTE FROM SAID PLANE WHEN SAID END PORTIONS ARE SNUGLY DISPOSED IN SAID OTHER PAIR OF OPENINGS;

A LATCH MEMBER SLIDABLY SUPPORTED UPON SAID DRUM WITHIN SAID APERTURE FOR MOVEMENT CIRCUMFERENTIALLY THEREOF INTO AND OUT OF A POSITION WITHIN SAID NOTCHES FOR POSITIVELY OPPOSING LENGTHWISE MOVEMENT OF SAID ARMS WITH RESPECT TO SAID DRUM;

A CUTTING BLADE HAVING A CUTTING EDGE, AND MEANS ON SAID BODY MEMBER SUPPORTING SAID CUTTING BLADE BETWEEN SAID ARMS NEAR SAID ONE END THEREOF, SAID CUTTING EDGE BEING NEAR TO AND SPACED FROM THE EDGES OF SAID ARMS SAID BLADE BEING DISPOSED AT AN ANGLE OF BETWEEN 65 AND 85 DEGREES TO SAID PLANE;

A LEVER PIVOTALLY SUPPORTED NEAR ONE END THEREOF UPON AND BETWEEN SAID ARMS ADJACENT SAID CONNECTING MEMBER, SAID LEVER BEING MOVABLE BETWEEN A FIRST POSITION EXTENDING AWAY FROM AND TRANSVERSELY OF SAID BODY MEMBER AND A SECOND POSITION EXTENDING LENGTHWISE OF SAID BODY MEMBER;

RESILIENT MEANS ON SAID BODY MEMBER URGING SAID LEVER TOWARD SAID SECOND POSITION, WHEREBY THE OTHER END OF SAID LEVER IS RESILIENTLY URGED AGAINST A ROLL OF TAPE SUPPORTED UPON SAID DRUM BETWEEN SAID ARMS;

FIRST ROLLER MEANS ROTATABLY SUPPORTED UPON AND BETWEEN SAID ARMS NEAR SAID ONE END OF SAID LEVER FOR GUIDING TAPE FROM THE ROLL TO SAID CUTTING EDGE;

AND SECOND ROLLER MEANS ROTATABLY SUPPORTED UPON SAID ONE END OF SAID BODY MEMBER OUTWARDLY OF SAID CUTTING BLADE FOR GUIDING TAPE AWAY FROM SAID CUTTING EDGE.