Trigger operated brake for handheld tape dispenser

• US 8,893,941 B2
• Filed: 10/27/2010
• Issued: 11/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Philo Jefferson Pinto
• Original Assignee: Philo Jefferson Pinto
• Inventors: Pinto, Philo Jefferson
• Primary Examiner(s): FLORES SANCHEZ, OMAR
• Application Number:
  US12/913,365
• Publication Number:
  US 20120104067A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,490 Days
• Field of Search: 225/82, 225/79, 225/56, 225/61, 225/66, 225/87
• US Class Current: 225/56
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2403/725 Brakes
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 35/0033 and affixing it to a surface B65H35/004 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 225/257 Blade mounted on hand-held wound package
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 225/287 With brake or clamp
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 225/293 Manually applied, spring returned

Abstract

A mechanism to halt the dispensing of pressure sensitive adhesive tape from a handheld dispenser with a finger operated trigger (10) which forces lever (13) to engage brake plate (15) with cogs to mesh with the cogs on the cogged spool holder (16) to positively stop the dispensing of tape.

Claims

1. A handheld dispenser of pressure sensitive adhesive tape comprising:

a handle, and

a rotating spool holder including a brake plate and holding a roll of pressure sensitive adhesive tape on the tape spool holder

a cutting blade;

an idler pulley; and

a finger activated trigger stopping the motion of the tape supply reel holder by engaging the brake plate through actuating a lever coupling the brake plate and the trigger, thus stopping the dispensing of tape when the trigger is pressed by a finger.

2. A device according to claim 1, wherein the device includes a spring biased trigger which is coupled to the lever.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the lever is coupled to the brake plate, the brake plate being toothed.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the brake plate interlocks with teeth disposed in the spool holder to prevent it from turning.

5. The device according to claim 4, wherein the toothed brake plate engages a plurality of teeth disposed about an interior circumference of the rotating spool holder.