Abstract: A tape dispenser, useful for storing, dispensing, and cutting a roll of duct tape, or similar wide, heavy, hard-to-tear tape. The dispenser is formed in two axially-registered and rotationally-mated halves. The dispenser can also include a mating wall-mounted or shelf-mounted receptacle that releasably mounts the dispenser on a convenient surface, and that allows tape to be dispensed and torn with one hand from the receptacle-mounted dispenser.

Abstract: A tape dispenser, useful for storing, dispensing, and cutting a roll of duct tape, or similar wide, heavy, hard-to-tear tape. The dispenser has a unique roll-surrounding structure with two sidewalls, a top wall axially extending between the sidewalls above the roll of tape, a spool support extending axially between the sidewalls and through the roll's spool, a retainer bar extending axially between the sidewalls, and an elevated cutting bar located above the top wall and the retainer bar and extending axially between the sidewalls. The dispenser is formed in two axially separable halves. The retainer and cutting bars help connect and strengthen the sidewalls, and are in turn reinforced by the sidewalls and the rest of the dispenser in their tape-retaining and cutting functions. The rigid, axially separable halves of the dispenser are preferably held together with a magnetic connection.