Decorative tape dispensing and applying apparatus

• US 4,582,558 A
• Filed: 01/16/1985
• Issued: 04/15/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co (3M Company)
• Original Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co (3M Company)
• Inventors: Antonson, David L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wityshyn, Michael
• Application Number:
  US06/692,062
• Time in Patent Office: 454 Days
• Field of Search: 156/523, 156/527, 156/574, 156/577, 156/579, 156/584
• US Class Current: 156/523
• CPC Class Codes: B60B 7/00 Wheel cover discs, rings, or the like, for ornamenting, protecting , venting, or obscuring, wholly or in part, the wheel body, rim, hub, or tyre sidewall , e.g. wheel cover discs, wheel cover discs with cooling fins wheels with cooling fins not provided on the wheel cover disc B60B19/10; apparatus or tools for removing or attaching cover discs hub caps or the like B60B31/06
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 35/0033 and affixing it to a surface B65H35/004 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1348 Work traversing type
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1795 Implement carried web supply
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/195 Delaminating roller means

Abstract

A dispenser for a decorative tape to apply the same in a circular pattern and a fixture connected to the dispenser to guide the same along a circular path. The fixture comprising a rod pivotally connected to the dispenser on an axis perpendicular to the tape applicating roller and having a cross arm adjustable to the rod with guide rollers at each end thereof to define the circular pattern.

Claims

1. A dispenser for a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape comprising

a frame,

means on said frame for supporting a roll of convolutely wound tape,

an applicating roller supported rotatably on said frame with the periphery exposed beyond the frame and on an axis parallel to the axis of the roll of tape,

a guide roller with a knurled peripheral surface positioned adjacent the surface of the applicating roller for contacting the adhesive coated surface of the tape,

guide means for directing the tape from the roll to the guide roller for movement onto the applicating roller,

a cutting blade support member pivoted on said frame and movable from a spaced position in relationship to said guide roller to a position contacting a tape on the periphery of the guide roller to brake the tape against the guide roller and to tension the tape during the cutting of the applied tape from the roll, and a spring connected to said support member to bias the support member against the guide roller.

2. A dispenser for a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape comprising

a frame,

means on said frame for supporting a roll of convolutely wound tape,

an applicating roller supported rotatably on said frame with the periphery exposed beyond the frame and on an axis parallel to the axis of the roll of tape,

a guide roller with a knurled peripheral surface positioned adjacent the surface of the applicating roller for contacting the adhesive coated surface of the tape,

guide means for directing the tape from the roll to the guide roller for movement onto the applicating roller,

a cutting blade support member pivoted on said frame and movable from a spaced position in relationship to said guide roller to a position contacting a tape on the periphery of the guide roller to brake the tape against the guide roller and to tension the tape during the cutting of the applied tape from the roll, and

a buffing roller supported on the support member to buff the tape to a receptor surface and to urge the blade from a position adjacent the applicating roller.

3. A dispenser according to claim 2 wherein a spring is connected to said support member to bias the support member against the guide roller and to urge the buffing roller toward the applied tape.