Automatic drawing and cutting device for adhesive tape dispenser

• US 6,065,519 A
• Filed: 12/29/1998
• Issued: 05/23/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: LSC Systems Co.
• Original Assignee: Sang-Chul Lee
• Inventors: Lee, Sang-Chul
• Primary Examiner(s): Rada, Rinaldi I.
• Assistant Examiner(s): LUNA, ANA M
• Application Number:
  US09/222,131
• Time in Patent Office: 511 Days
• Field of Search: 225/10, 225/11, 225/14, 225/15, 83/649, 156/527, 156/577, 156/579, 156/574, 156/523, 156/510
• US Class Current: 156/523
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 35/006 with means for delivering a predetermined length of tape
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 35/008 Arrangements or adaptations of cutting devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/12 Surface bonding means and/or assembly means with cutting, punching, piercing, severing or tearing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1348 Work traversing type
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/18 Surface bonding means and/or assembly means with handle or handgrip
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 225/205 With feed-out of predetermined length from work supply
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 225/211 Manually operated feed-out mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/896 Rotatable wound package supply

Abstract

The present invention relates to an automatic drawing and cutting device for an adhesive tape dispenser. The adhesive tape dispenser includes a case body for containing an adhesive tape and having a detachable cover, a drawing means for automatically drawing the adhesive tape from the case body in a desired length, and a cutting means for automatically cutting the adhesive tape drawn by the drawing means. According to this automatic drawing and cutting device for an adhesive tape dispenser, the adhesive tape may be automatically drawn from the adhesive tape dispenser in a desired length by pulling a handle of the drawing means with a user'"'"'s finger cutting the drawn adhesive tape by only sliding forward a sliding member of the cutting means, thus improving the convenience of operation.

Claims

1. An automatic drawing and cutting device for an adhesive tape dispenser, the adhesive tape dispenser comprising:

a case body for containing an adhesive tape therein, the case body having a cover which is detachably mounted, an outlet through which an adhesive tape is passed;

drawing means for drawing the adhesive tape from the adhesive tape dispenser into a desired length; and

cutting means for cutting the adhesive tape drawn by the drawing means,

characterized in that,

the drawing means includes a pair of latch drums having a latch gear on their inner peripherals respectively and a shaft integrally formed at a middle part thereof;

a latch handle pivotally mounted on the shaft of the latch drums and having a pin formed integrally;

a push latch pivotally mounted on the latch handle by the pin of the latch handle, the push latch being engaged with one of the teeth of the latch gear;

a first and a second brackets positioned between the latch drums, each end part of the brackets being mounted in the case body by pin joint;

a holding latch pivotally mounted by a pin of the second bracket in opposite direction of the push latch and engaged with one of the teeth of the latch gear to prevent a contrary rotation of the latch drums;

a first coil spring located on the shaft of the latch drums, the first coil spring resiliently supporting the latch handle and the push latch;

a second coil spring positioned on a pin of the second bracket and resiliently supporting the holding latch; and

a pair of rollers connected with the latch drums by a pair of belts, each of the belts surrounding circumferences of the latch drums and the rollers, and

the cutting means includes a sliding member slidingly positioned on an upper part of the case body and having a protrusion;

a movable bar movable by forward sliding of the sliding member and having a projection part, the movable bar pivotally mounted by a first hinge of the case body, a top end part of the movable bar being engaged with the protrusion of the sliding member;

a lever pivotally mounted by a second hinge of the case body and pressed down by pressure of the projection part of the movable bar moving forward;

a cutter detachably mounted at a front end of the lever; and

a holder for supporting the cutter and holding the adhesive tape during cutting operation, the holder positioned at the front end of the lever having the cutter and connected to the lever by a pin-shaped spring, wherein when the sliding member is pulled forward, the lever is pressed down by the pressure of the movable bar moving forward and the cutter connected with the lever is lowered to cut the adhesive tape.

2. An automatic drawing and cutting device for an adhesive tape dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the first coil spring has one end part pressing one side of the push latch and the other end part hooking up a pin of the second bracket in order for the first coil spring to resiliently support the latch handle and the push latch, so that the latch handle and the push latch can be returned to their original positions after the latch handle is pulled into counterclockwise direction.

3. An automatic drawing and cutting device for an adhesive tape dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the cutting means further includes a supporting spring located under the lever, the supporting spring for resiliently supporting the lever to return the pressed down lever to its original position.

4. An automatic drawing and cutting device for an adhesive tape dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the case body includes a protruded semicircular part integrally formed at an upper front end part thereof, the protruded semicircular part pressing down the drawn adhesive tape so that the adhesive tape can be attached to an object.