Adhesive tape dispenser

• US 8,602,280 B2
• Filed: 04/10/2012
• Issued: 12/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chi-Tsai Chang
• Original Assignee: Chi-Tsai Chang
• Inventors: Chang, Chi-Tsai
• Primary Examiner(s): MICHALSKI, SEAN M
• Application Number:
  US13/443,476
• Publication Number:
  US 20120193389A1
• Time in Patent Office: 609 Days
• Field of Search: 225/19, 225/20, 225/89, 225/39, 225/43, D19/69, D19/70
• US Class Current: 225/43
• CPC Class Codes: B26D 7/00 Details of apparatus for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting cutters B26D1/00; arrangements for guiding hand cutting tools B26B29/06; punching tools or dies, cutting-out knives or dies B26F
• CPC Class Codes: B26F 3/02 Tearing
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 35/0026 for delivering pressure-sensitive adhesive tape
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 35/0073 Details
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 225/243 Blade on pivoted closure for housing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 225/295 Blade manually movable to or from severing position

Abstract

An adhesive tape dispenser of the present invention includes a housing and a tape holder. The housing has an opening and a pivot axle disposed on the opening. The tape holder is received in the housing and has a pivot hole to receive the pivot axle. The housing and the tape holder have a limitation structure to enable the tape holder to pivot between a closed position and an open position. The housing has a pressing portion which is able to press the tape holder to cancel limitation of the limitation structure, and then the tape holder is able to pivot away from the opening freely to facilitate the replacement of tape roll. Thereby, the adhesive tape dispenser of the present invention can provide an easy way to operate, and the replacement of tape roll becomes more convenient.

Claims

1. An adhesive tape dispenser, including:

a housing, the housing having a first wall, an opposite second wall, and a cavity between the first and the second walls, the second wall having a sliding axle protruding toward the cavity and a pressing portion which is able to protrude toward the cavity, the housing having an opening located between the first wall and the second wall, the housing also having a pivot axle disposed at the opening, a longitudinal direction of the pivot axle being perpendicular to the first and the second walls, the pivot axle partitioning the opening into a first opening and a second opening;

a tape holder, being received in the cavity and having a first face and a opposite second face, the first face facing the first wall, the second face facing the second wall, the first face having a tape axle, a longitudinal direction of the tape axle being perpendicular to the first face, the second face having a first limiting piece and a second limiting piece, a sliding slot being defined between the first and the second limiting pieces to enable the sliding axle to slide inside, the first limiting piece having a fixed first end and a free second end, the second limiting piece having a free third end and a fixed fourth end, the first end corresponding to the third end positioninally, the second end corresponding to the fourth end positionally, the tape holder having a lateral face between the first and the second faces, the lateral face having a pivot hole to receive the pivot axle to enable the tape holder to pivot relative to the housing, the lateral face having a pressing end and an opposite cutting end, the pressing end being able to pivot toward inside of the first opening, the cutting end being able to pivot away from the second opening, a cutter being disposed at an end of the cutting end;

wherein the tape holder is able to pivot between a closed position and an open position due to limitation of the sliding slot to the sliding axle;

wherein when the tape holder is at the closed position, the lateral face covers the opening, the tape holder is located in the cavity completely;

wherein when the tape holder is at the open position, the sliding axle abuts against a blocking portion of the third end of the second limiting piece, the pressing end enters the first opening, the cutting end leaves the second opening;

wherein when the tape holder is at the open position and the pressing portion protrudes toward the cavity, the third end of the second limiting piece is pressed by the pressing portion to move toward the first wall of the housing, the sliding axle is thereby not blocked by the blocking portion and is able to leave the sliding slot to enable the cutting end to pivot away from the second opening further.

2. The adhesive tape dispenser of claim 1, wherein the sliding slot has a receiving portion at the second end of the first limiting piece and the fourth end of the second limiting piece, a width of the receiving portion is larger than widths of other parts except the receiving portion of the sliding slot when the sliding axle is located on the receiving portion, the sliding axle is able to press the first and the second limiting pieces away from the sliding slot to broaden the widths of the slot when the sliding axle moves toward the first end of the first limiting piece and the third limiting piece.

3. The adhesive tape dispenser of claim 1, wherein the cutter has a saw-tooth edge.

4. The adhesive tape dispenser of claim 1, wherein the pressing portion is an elastic piece which is able to protrude toward the cavity.

5. The adhesive tape dispenser of claim 1, wherein the tape holder is able to pivot to expose the tape axle outside of the second opening.

6. The adhesive tape dispenser of claim 1, wherein the cutter corresponds to an edge of the second opening positionally.