Double-coated tape dispenser

• US 3,106,324 A
• Filed: 01/27/1961
• Issued: 10/08/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: George H. Fritzinger
• Original Assignee: George H. Fritzinger
• Inventors: Fritzinger, George H.
• Application Number:
  US04/085,319
• Time in Patent Office: 984 Days
• US Class Current: 225/26
• 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: B65H 35/0026 for delivering pressure-sensitive adhesive tape
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 37/002 Web delivery apparatus, the web serving as support for articles, material or another web
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 41/00 Machines for separating superposed webs
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 225/223 With finger-access opening

Claims

1. A DISPENSER FOR DOUBLE-COATED PRESSURE SENSITIVE TAPE WOUND IN ROLL FORM WITH A NON-ADHESIVE INTERLINE FROM WHICH THE PRESSURE SENSITIVE TAPE IS READILY RELEASABLE, COMPRISING A HOUSING, A CORE JOURNALLED TO SAID HOUSING FOR CARRYING A SUPPLY ROLL OF SAID TAPE, SAID CORE HAVING PERIPHERAL MEANS FOR ENGAGING SAID SUPPLY ROLL WITHOUT SLIPPAGE TO PROVIDE A DRIVE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE SUPPLY ROLL AND CORE, A DISPENSING STATION ON SAID HOUSING UNOBSTRUCTED ACROSS THE TOP THEREOF AND INCLUDING MEANS FOR CUTTING OFF LENGTHS OF DOUBLE-COATED TAPE DRAWN PAST THE STATION FROM THE SUPPLY ROLL, SAID STATION BEING SEPARATED FROM THE SUPPLY ROLL BY A FREE SPACE OPEN AT THE SIDES OF THE HOUSING TO PROVIDE ACCESS FOR THE FINGERS OF THE HAND TO GRIP THE DOUBLE-COATED TAPE PRIOR TO DRAWING LENGTHS OF THE TAPE FROM THE SUPPLY ROLL, A TAKE-UP REEL FOR SAID INTERLINER JOURNALLED ON SAID HOUSING ON AN AXIS PARALLEL TO THAT OF SAID CORE, SAID TAKE-UP REEL BEING MOUNTED IN SAID HOUSING BELOW SAID FREE SPACE BETWEEN THE CORE AND SAID STATION, MEANS ON SAID TAKE-UP REEL FOR ATTACHING THERETO AN END OF THE INTERLINER DRAWN FROM THE SUPPLY ROLL, AND A DRIVE COUPLING INCLUDING AN ADJUSTABLE FRICTION SLIP CLUTCH BETWEEN SAID CORE AND SAID TAKE-UP REEL, SAID DRIVE COUPLING HAVING A TRANSMISSION RATIO TENDING TO OVER-DRIVE SAID TAKE-UP REEL WITH A PERIPHERAL SPEED GREATER THAN THE PERIPHERAL SPEED OF SAID CORE WHEREBY AS THE DOUBLE-COATED TAPE IS DRAWN PAST SAID STATION FROM THE SUPPLY ROLL THE TAKE-UP REEL IS DRIVEN WITH SLIPPAGE OF SAID CLUTCH TO STRIP THE INTERLINER FROM THE SUPPLY ROLL AND WIND THE SAME ON THE REEL.