TAPE CUTTER

• US 3,751,806 A
• Filed: 05/20/1971
• Issued: 08/14/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John Patrick
• Original Assignee: John Patrick
• Inventors: Patrick, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Jones, Jr., James L.
• Application Number:
  US05/145,432
• Time in Patent Office: 817 Days
• Field of Search: 30/294,314,315
• US Class Current: 30/294
• CPC Class Codes: B26B 27/00 Hand cutting tools not provided for in the preceding groups, e.g. finger rings for cutting string, devices for cutting by means of wires

Abstract

A tape cutter for cutting adhesive tape from human skin having a pointed blade positioned so that the point of the blade is near a rounded tip on the tape cutter. The blade being held in a guide extension that has an open area above the blade to force the tape to be cut against the blade and a bottom rounded portion to force the skin down and away from the tape to be cut.

Claims

1. A tape cutter having a handle, a guide extension on the handle, a guide piece, a blade having a back edge and a bottom edge fastened between the guide extension and the guide piece so that the back edge of the blade fits against a shoulder on the handle and the bottom edge of the blade fits against a lip on the guide extension, the guide extension having an underneath edge above the blade, the handling having a bottom rounded portion near the guide extension and the blade having a point extending to the edge of a rounded tip on the lip of the guide extension.