Tape dispenser

• US 3,102,671 A
• Filed: 03/05/1962
• Issued: 09/03/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Irvin J. Gershen
• Original Assignee: Irvin J. Gershen
• Inventors: Gershen, Irvin J.
• Application Number:
  US04/177,645
• Time in Patent Office: 547 Days
• US Class Current: 225/43
• CPC Class Codes: B65C 11/00 Manually-controlled or manually-operable label dispensers, e.g. modified for the application of labels to articles special furniture, fittings, or accessories for shops, storehouses, bars, or the like A47F; for paper napkins, for toilet paper A47K; for playing cards A63F; movable-strip writing or reading apparatus B42D19/00; adhesive tape dispensers B65H35/002; dispensers for tickets G07B; coin-operated dispensers for stamps G07F ; dispensing devices for pamphlets from vehicles G09F21/22
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/0841 and for cutting interconnected articles cutting devices for dispensers intended for re-use B65H35/008
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/672 on cores
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 35/002 Hand-held or table apparatus B65H35/006 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 225/243 Blade on pivoted closure for housing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 225/248 Single blank container

Claims

1. A MOLDED TAPE DISPENSER FORMED OF A FLEXIBLE AND RESILIENT PLASTIC MATERIAL;

WHICH COMPRISES A PAIR OF OPPOSED SIDE WALLS SPACED FROM ONE ANOTHER;

AN END WALL CONNECTING THE SIDE WALLS ADJACENT THEIR PERIMETERS AND DEFINING AN APERTURE TO ALLOW TAPE TO PASS FROM THE INTERIOR TO THE EXTERIOR OF SAID DISPENSER;

SAID END WALL BEING DIVIDED INTO A PLURALITY OF SECTIONS;

ONE BEING INTEGRAL WITH BOTH OF SAID SIDE WALLS AND HINGEABLY CONNECTED TO EACH OF THEM BY A REDUCED THICKNESS HINGE OF THE SAME PLASTIC MATERIAL AND THE REMAINDER OF SAID SECTIONS EACH BEING INTEGRAL WITH ONLY ONE OF THE SIDE WALLS AND EXTENDING APPROXIMATELY PERPENDICULAR THERETO ACROSS THE SPACE BETWEEN THE SIDE WALLS WHEN THE DISPENSER IS CLOSED;

A CUTTING ARM INTEGRAL WITH, AND HINGEDLY CONNECTED BY A REDUCED THICKNESS HINGE PORTION TO A SECTION OF SAID END WALL ADJACENT TO THE END WALL SECTION DEFINING SAID APERTURE;

SAID HINGED ARM FITTING OVER SAID APERTURE WHEN THE ARM IS SWUNG DOWN ON THE END WALL OF SAID DISPENSER;

A CUTTER MOUNTED IN THE END OF SAID ARM AND LOCATED BEYOND SAID APERTURE WHEN THE ARM IS SWUNG DOWN ON THE END WALL;

AND AN ANVIL PORTION OF SAID RESILIENT PLASTIC MATERIAL PRESENTED BY THE END WALL IN THE PATH OF THE CUTTER WHEN THE HINGED ARM IS SWUNG DOWN ON THE END WALL, CORRESPONDING PORTIONS OF SAID SIDE AND END WALLS FITTING TOGETHER WHEN PRESSED INTO CONTACT TO CLOSE THE DISPENSER BUT BEING SEPARABLE FROM ONE ANOTHER TO OPEN THE DISPENSER;

WHEREBY A ROLL OF TAPE MAY BE POSITIONED INSIDE THE DISPENSER WHEN IT IS OPEN, THE FREE END OF THE TAPE MAY BE PASSED THROUGH THE APERTURE AND THE OVER THE ANVIL PORTION, AND THE CUTTER MAY BE SWUNG DOWN ONTO THE ANVIL, WHEN THE DISPENSER IS CLOSED TO SEVER THE TAPE.