MULTIROLL SURVEYOR RIBBON DISPENSER

• US 3,589,634 A
• Filed: 09/08/1969
• Issued: 06/29/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Edwin C. Mason
• Original Assignee: Edwin C. Mason
• Inventors: Mason, Edwin C.
• Application Number:
  US04/855,954
• Time in Patent Office: 659 Days
• US Class Current: 242/588.1
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 5/021 to the belt
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 16/005 Dispensers, i.e. machines for unwinding only parts of web roll
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 16/04 cantilever type
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2402/41 Portable or hand-held apparatus

Abstract

A spool for carrying a plurality of rolls of surveyor ribbon, which spool has a flange at one end with a carrying handle with a projection that projects radially over the ribbon rolls and has apertures for guiding the free ends of the unwound ribbon. The spool has a removably flange at the other end for holding the rolls of ribbon on the spool and also has resilient detent means for resiliently and frictionally holding the plurality of rolls of ribbon so that ribbon unwinds only when the free end of the ribbon is pulled.

Claims

1. A multiroll surveyor ribbon dispenser comprising, a spool for carrying a plurality of rolls of ribbon having end flanges, one of said end flanges having means projecting radially therefrom for carrying said spool, a member fixed to said projecting means, which member extends longitudinally over the rolls of ribbon and is spaced radially therefrom, said member having apertures aligned with each of said rolls of ribbon for passing the end of the ribbon therethrough, frictional means on said spool pressing against the inner surface of each of the rolls of ribbon for frictionally retarding rotational movement of the rolls of ribbon on said spool, and means for selectively removing the other of said end flanges to place rolls of ribbon on said spool.

2. A multiroll surveyor ribbon dispenser as claimed in claim 1 wherein, said frictional means comprises a spring detent for each roll of ribbon, which detent has an end projection that contacts the inner surface of each roll of ribbon.

3. A multiroll surveyor ribbon dispenser as claimed in claim 2 wherein, said end projection of said detent projects radially outward from the surface of said spool.

4. A multiroll surveyor ribbon dispenser as claimed in claim 1 wherein, said member has an arcuate shape forming a shield over the top of the spool, and said member has ribbon receiving apertures adjacent the front edge of said member and adjacent the rear edge of said member.

5. A multiroll surveyor ribbon dispenser as claimed in claim 1 wherein, said spool is hollow with one end fixed to said one of said end flanges, a threaded member is secured in said hollow volume of said spool and projects along the axis of said spool, and said other of said end flanges engages said threaded member.

6. A multiroll surveyor ribbon dispenser as claimed in claim 5 wherein, said hollow volume of said spool is circular and is open at the end opposite said one of said end flanges, and said other of said end flanges has an axially projecting cylindrical portion that fits into said circular hollow volume.