Tool for transferring a film

• US 6,976,652 B2
• Filed: 07/05/2002
• Issued: 12/20/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kores Holding Zug AG
• Original Assignee: Kores Holding Zug AG
• Inventors: Koreska, Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ
• Application Number:
  US10/482,841
• Publication Number:
  US 20040182962A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,264 Days
• Field of Search: 242/588, 242/588.2, 242/588.3, 242/916, 156/579, 156/574, 156/577, 156/584, 156/540, 156/238, 156/247, 156/391, 156/486, 206/391
• US Class Current: 242/588.2
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 37/007 Applicators for applying coatings, e.g. correction, colour or adhesive coatings
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/18 Surface bonding means and/or assembly means with handle or handgrip

Abstract

A hand-operated tool for transferring a film from a tape to a substrate includes a housing from which a film transfer member projects outwards and in which a film supply reel, from which the tape is pulled over the transfer member for transferring the film, and a winding-up reel are rotatably mounted, and a sliding coupling is provided for a torque transmission from the supply reel to the winding-up reel, the empty tape being wound up on the winding-up reel after transfer of the film (11) at the transfer member; at a bottom side of the housing which, when transferring the film to the substrate, faces this substrate, in a transition region between a housing part accommodating the transfer member and a housing part housing the reels, a supporting member defining a tilting support is provided on both sides of the housing main middle plane, which supporting member, in combination with the transfer member, provides a three-point support on the substrate.

Claims

1. A hand-operated tool for transferring a film from a tape to a substrate, said tool comprising a housing from which a film transfer member (4) projects outwards and in which a film supply reel, from which the tape is pulled over the transfer member for transferring the film, as well as a winding-up reel, which is coaxial to the supply reel, are rotatably mounted, and a sliding coupling provided for a torque transmission from the supply reel to the winding-up reel, the tape being wound up on the winding-up reel after transfer of the film at the transfer member, wherein at a bottom side of the housing which, when transferring the film to the substrate, faces this substrate, in a transition region between a housing part accommodating the transfer member and a housing part housing the reels, two separate supporting means defining a tilting support for the housing, which tilting support is fixed relative to the housing, are externally provided on both sides of a housing main middle plane, which supporting means, in combination with the transfer member, provide a three-point support on the substrate, wherein the supporting means are formed by rollers laterally mounted on the housing.

2. A hand-operated tool according to claim 1, wherein the rollers are put onto an axle which passes through the housing.

3. A hand-operated tool according to claim 2, wherein the axle in the housing interior additionally supports the transfer member.

4. A hand-operated tool according to claim 2, wherein the axle is mounted on the bottom side of the housing.

5. A hand-operated tool according to claim 4, wherein the axle is snapped into bearing projections provided on the bottom side of the housing.

6. A hand-operated tool according to claim 4 or 5, wherein the rollers are integrally formed with the axle.

7. A hand-operated tool according to claim 6, wherein the rollers are integrally formed as an injection molded part.

8. A hand-operated tool according to claim 1, the rollers are put onto separate lateral axles.

9. A hand-operated tool according to claim 8, wherein the rollers are mounted in snap fit on the respective axles.

10. A hand-operated tool according to claim 1, wherein the rollers are inserted into undercut housing recesses.

11. A hand-operated tool according to claim 10, wherein the rollers are snapped into the undercut housing recesses.