Abstract: The present invention comprises a refillable tape dispenser comprising a housing including a side wall, and a tubular hub having a longitudinal axis defining an axial direction, and a first end fixed to the side wall. The hub comprises a continuous base portion joined to the side wall, first and second opposed arcuate guide portions, and first and second opposed arcuate flexible portions which have distal ends remote from the continuous base portion. The first and second flexible portions have axially extending side surfaces defining a non-diametrical chord for the cylindrical hub and have a retaining lug at their distal ends. The retaining lugs have a remote end spaced axially from the distal ends of the flexible portions, a first retaining surface projecting radially outward of the flexible portion, and a second retaining surface projecting radially inward of the flexible portion.

Abstract: A photo album held together by attachment assemblies, each including (1) a barrel part having an internally threaded tubular portion and a plate at one end that will not pass through the openings in the pages and attachment portions of covers for the album; and (2) a screw part comprising an externally threaded portion adapted to threadably engage the tubular portion, and a head at one end that also will not pass through the openings in the pages and the attachment portions. The plates have projections received in sockets in the attachment portion of the rear cover to restrict rotation of the barrel parts; and the heads on the screw parts have ridges along their peripheries and large diameters that afford easy manual engagement with them to engage or disengage the screw parts with respect to the barrel parts.

Abstract: A refillable tape dispenser including opposed hub portions adapted to project axially into and journal the core of a roll of tape. Each of the hub portions includes cam surfaces having ends ending at an inner surface, which cam surfaces are disposed generally parallel to a first direction in which tape is withdrawn from the dispenser and diverge away from opposite sides of the inner surface. Movement of the tape roll toward the inner surfaces of the opposed hub portions in a direction normal to the first direction will cause the tape roll to engage the cam surfaces and move one hub portion to a release position until the hub portions are aligned with and enter the central opening in the core under the influence of biasing toward that position, whereupon end surfaces of plate like parts of the hub portions will retain and journal the core around the hub portions during withdrawal of tape in the first direction.

Abstract: A dispensing assembly including an internally pressurized container of viscous liquid which may be dispensed through a hollow stem by deflecting the directing tube and stem to open a valve and cause liquid to flow out through an outlet opening in the directing tube. An overcap having a cavity adapted to receive the stem and directing tube releasably engages the container and has at least one, and preferably two, sockets along its inner surface for storing elongate hollow tapered application nozzles. The application nozzles have inlet ends adapted for engagement around the outlet opening on the directing tube so that the nozzles can be used to apply the liquid as it is discharged from the container.

Abstract: A dispenser for holding a pad or stack of paper sheets joined by bands of pressure-sensitive adhesive along one edge portion of each sheet. The dispenser includes a support surface for the pad, and means for holding the bottom sheet to the support surface comprising a slot communicating with the support surface through which the bottom sheet on the pad passes, and a clip which attaches that bottom sheet to a rib on the dispenser to retain its position through the slot.

Abstract: A tape dispenser for pressure sensitive adhesive coated tape having a stretchable backing. The dispenser includes a housing comprising a base portion having a cavity in which a roll of the tape is mounted, and a slotted land area spaced from the hub against which tape from said roll may be releasably adhered; and a cover portion on the base portion for movement from an open position with teeth on the cover spaced from the slot toward a closed position so that the teeth enter the slot and cut tape on the land area. The cover includes walls defining a socket adapted to receive a portion of a user's thumb so that the user may grasp the dispenser in one hand with his fingers around the base portion and his thumb in the socket and with one hand alone move the cover and base portions between their open and closed positions leaving his other hand free to pull tape from the dispenser.

Abstract: A tape dispenser comprising a frame having a tape guide portion with a cutter blade at its outer edge, side wall portions attached to opposite edges of the guide portion and projecting past an inner end of the guide portion, and opposed arcuate hub portions attached to and projecting inwardly from the side wall portions in positions spaced from the guide portion. The hub portions are adapted to support a roll of pressure sensitive adhesive coated tape having a three inch diameter central opening and are adapted to mechanically interlock to rigidify the dispenser when tape is pulled from the roll along the guide portion and the cutter blade is used to cut the tape.

Abstract: A tape applicator adapted to be hand held and used to apply a length of pressure sensitive adhesive coated tape to a substrate and to cut the applied length from a supply of the tape in the dispenser. An anvil spaced from a hub that supports a roll of tape may be manually rubbed along the backing of tape being applied by moving the applicator to firmly press it against the substrate, and a cutting edge on the side of the anvil opposite the hub may be used to sever the applied tape by pivoting the dispenser. A retainer will be engaged by the adhesive coating on the tape upon cutting of the tape to retain the cut end of the tape in position adjacent the anvil so that it can be manually pressed against and adhered to a new substrate, and the adhesive coating on the tape will be peeled away from the retainer when that cut end is adhered to a new substrate and the dispenser is initially moved to apply the new length of tape.

Abstract: A weatherstrip assembly comprising an integral extrusion of polymeric material comprising a stiff L-shaped portion adapted to engage around an edge of the door, a flexible, resilient central strip-like portion, a stiff third strip-like portion extending from the edge of the second portion opposite the first portion, and a strip-like flexible flap portion having an edge joined at the juncture between the second and third portions. The first portion is adhered to a door by pressure-sensitive adhesive, the third portion is positioned in face-to-face contact with the outer surface of the first portion opposite the surface of the door and adjusted in a vertical direction with respect to said door to form the flexible second portion into a tube-like structure having a sufficient diameter to fill a void space between a frame and the edge of the door, and the first and second portions are attached in place by screws.