Rubbing Transfer Of Solid Coating Material Onto Work Patents (Class 118/76)
  • Patent number: 7045036
    Abstract: A method and assembly is disclosed for manufacturing a sized web of paper or paperboard, the method comprising the steps of first forming the web at a headbox (1) from a stock comprising at least water and fiber, then pressing the web for water drainage, and finally drying the web by heating. Size furnish is added to the web so that at least a portion of the overall amount of size is added to the web prior to initiating the drying of the web by heating, and at least a portion of the overall amount of size is applied to the web after initiating the drying of the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Juha Lipponen, Johan Grön, Sami Anttilainen, Juha S. Kinnunen
  • Patent number: 7025829
    Abstract: Equipment for aligning liquid crystals is provided, comprising a first unit to form a first alignment layer and a second alignment layer on a first substrate group and a second substrate group, respectively; a second unit spaced apart from the first unit so as to receive the first and second substrate groups passed through the first unit; an alignment unit disposed between the first and second units, the alignment unit to provide a liquid crystal alignment part over the first alignment layer of the first substrate group while the first substrate group is transported through a first path from the first unit to the second unit; and a transportation unit disposed between the first and second units, the transportation unit to transport the second substrate group through a second path from the first unit to the second unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Woo-Shik Lee
  • Patent number: 7018470
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rubbing device including a base roller assembly that suspends and suspends and otherwise supports a base film to convey the same in one direction; a rubbing roller assembly that suspends and otherwise supports a rubbing cloth, and that moves the rubbing cloth in a direction opposite a conveying direction of the base film to thereby realize a rubbing treatment by contact between the rubbing cloth and the base film; and a rotating apparatus provided under the rubbing roller assembly and that rotates the entire rubbing roller assembly to a particular angle greater than 0° and up to and including 180° in the clockwise or counterclockwise direction with respect to the conveying direction of the base film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong-Su Yu, Jong-Sung Park, Du-Hyun Shin, Kum-Suek Seo
  • Patent number: 6997229
    Abstract: A correction tape dispenser includes a housing with a pair of receiving holes. A carrier ribbon has a first end wound about a supply spool and a second end wound about a take-up spool. An applicator tip is at least partially disposed within the housing and includes a platform with a front edge, a rear edge, a first side edge, a second side edge, a top surface and a bottom surface. The carrier ribbon is disposed on the top surface, around the front edge, and on the bottom surface. The platform includes a slot that defines first and second legs. A first post extends laterally out from the first side edge, and a second post extends laterally out from the second side edge, the first post and the second post being rotatably disposed within the receiving holes of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Sanford, L.P.
    Inventors: Bret R. Marschand, Andrew Bielecki
  • Patent number: 6905545
    Abstract: Provided is a transfer device capable of maintaining a constant tension of band-shaped ribbon from the start till the end of operation requiring no action by a user. While band-shaped ribbon (F) is being supplied, a feed shaft unit (4) and a feed drive gear (3) rotate. In accordance with their rotations, a movable plate (6) screw-retreats so that the interval between the movable plate (6) and the surface of the feed drive gear (3) is increased in the axial direction. Consequently, the force of a coil spring (5) is reduced and the braking force (a force to press the surface of the feed drive gear (3) to stop its rotation) is gradually decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: General Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Tominaga
  • Patent number: 6896734
    Abstract: A transfer tool having a transfer film remover for abrading and removing various transfer films transferred on a sheet of paper or the like without scratching or staining the paper surface. A transfer film remover for abrading and removing a transfer film transferred on a sheet of paper or the like is provided in part of a case of a transfer tool for transferring coat film or other transfer film on a transfer tape onto a sheet of paper or the like. By the exclusive transfer film remover always furnish in the transfer tool, the transfer film transferred on the transfer area can be abraded and removed, and hence it is not dropped or lost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Seed Company Limited
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Nishioka, Hiromi Masutomi, Mitsuaki Tanaka, Kazuki Morimoto, Shigeki Akiyama, Rie Hamada, Shinya Fujii, Kayo Tsumura, Souichi Taniwaki, Shigeru Chuuma
  • Patent number: 6846361
    Abstract: A wall mural painting kit for painting a mural on a wall or other flat surface. The kit has multiple pattern transfer sheets. Each pattern transfer sheet has first and second opposite faces. A layer of transfer material is on the first face and a pattern of a mural is on the second face. One or more alignment markings is provided on the second face for use in placing said sheet in correct position on said wall or other flat surface. The kit may include a supply of adhesive tape having a non-aggressive adhesive. The tape is marked at regular intervals along the length of the tape so that the tape may be torn or cut from said supply in appropriately-sized segments to allow each pattern transfer sheet to be affixed to a wall or other flat surface with a desired number of said segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Home Design Alternatives, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert F. Ketterer
  • Patent number: 6830089
    Abstract: A coat film transfer head device having a coat film transfer head held at a tape pressing and transferring position suited to the user's manner of holding a writing tool, and capable of checking the tape pressing and transferring position directly and visually. It comprises a head main body for pressing and transferring a coat film transfer tape, a head holder for supporting the head main body rotatably about its axial center, and a rotating operation unit for positioning the head main body in the rotating direction, and this rotating operation unit functions also as the head position indicating unit for indicating the tape pressing and transferring position of the head main body. Therefore, the user can check the tape pressing and transferring position directly and visually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Seed Rubber Company Limited
    Inventors: Shigeru Tamai, Kouhei Koyama, Masatoshi Shintani
  • Patent number: 6817398
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hand-held device for applying a film from a backing tape onto a substrate. The device has a housing in which a supply of the backing tape and a take-up device for the backing tape are arranged, and an application member which projects from the housing. The application member has an application gib and is pivotably connected to an application base supported at the housing about a swivelling axis extending transversely to the projecting application gib. The application member has two lateral support legs arranged at a distance from the application edge and defining an abutment plane with the application edge which abuts on the substrate in the mode of operation of the hand-held device. In order to enhance the bearing characteristics of the application member, the joint is provided in the projection onto the abutment plane between the support legs and the application edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Societe Bic
    Inventors: Winfried Huthmacher, Roland Schneider
  • Patent number: 6802354
    Abstract: A hand-held device for applying correction tape on an application surface having at most only a supply spool for a stock of the correction tape. An applicator element, which can be a roller, applies the correction tape in its entirety on the application surface. No backing tape or the like is rewound back into the casing. Therefore, a second take-up spool can be omitted. In the vicinity of the application element a cut-off/separating element is provided for cutting off or separating the applied correction tape from the rest of the correction tape when lifting the device off an application surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: Societe BIC
    Inventor: Jeanne-Antide Bouveresse
  • Patent number: 6796355
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for transferring a film of adhesive, covering, or colored material from a backing tape onto a substrate, having a housing in which a supply reel and a take-up reel for the backing tape are rotatably mounted. The backing tape extends from the supply reel, loops around an application member protruding from the housing, and extends to the take-up reel. A rotating member is arranged in the drive connection between the supply reel and the take-up reel. The rotating member is connected to the take-up reel by a first gearing and has a rotational axis which is radially offset in relation to the rotational axis of the supply reel. The rotational axis of the supply reel is radially offset relative to the rotational axis of the rotating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Societe BIC
    Inventors: Winfried Huthmacher, Georg Semmler, Roland Schneider
  • Patent number: 6776209
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an adhesive tape dispenser which receives an adhesive tape coated with coating substance such as bonding substance in order to stick the same to a surface of a sheet. The adhesive tape dispenser includes a guide tip pivotally mounted on a leading end of a tape-supporting frame in such a manner as to be rotated at a predetermined angle so that a tape can be easily used and coating substance of the tape can adhere well to a wide area of the sheet surface while maintaining a proper degree of elasticity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Inventor: Kwang Ho You
  • Patent number: 6769470
    Abstract: A mark transfer tool making use of a coat film transfer technology about various marks composed of characters, codes, patterns or their combination. A mark transfer tape is composed of pressure-sensitive adhesive transfer marks disposed and held on the surface of a base tape continuously and peelably at specific intervals, and each mark is composed of a mark and an overwriting blank space. A bodily sensing recess for showing the division position of transfer marks is disposed between the transfer marks, and a positioning bump to be engaged with the bodily sensing recess is provided in the transfer head, and a hooking phenomenon of running motion of mark transfer tape by engagement of the two is recognized as the standard for transfer, so that the transfer mark of the mark transfer tape can be accurately transferred on a correction area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Seed Company Limited
    Inventors: Shigeru Tamai, Masatoshi Shintani, Kouhei Koyama
  • Patent number: 6761200
    Abstract: A device for transferring a coating onto a paper or like surface from the outer surface of a transfer tape extending around a transfer head protruding from a casing and having a pair of transversely spaced apart guide members. A protective cover is held within the casing when the device is used and has a front end portion adapted to protrude from the casing for protecting the coating on the unused portion of the transfer tape when the device is out of use. The cover has an engaging portion formed on the inner surface of its front end portion for engaging with the bottom edges of the guide member at its front end to hold the cover in its position in which the device is out of use, while the engaging portion is engageable with a supporting portion formed on the casing to hold the cover in its position in which the device is in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Tombow Pencil Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masashi Shinya
  • Patent number: 6745808
    Abstract: A film transfer apparatus capable of carrying out a transfer tape replacement operation easily. In an apparatus body formed by separably combining a main case member (4) and a covering case member (5) with each other to a body, a boss (14) of a feed gear (12) is fitted in a pressure contacting state around an inner cylinder of an intermediate connecting member (22) which has a double cylindrical portion of the inner cylinder and an outer cylinder, and the intermediate connecting member is engaged with and rotatably supported on a support shaft (28) having a locking portion (31), which is provided on an inner surface of the main case member with a feed reel fitted around the outer cylinder so that the feed reel can be engaged with the same. The covering case member (5) is provided on an inner surface thereof with a support shaft (25) on and with which the feed reel and a take-up reel are supported rotatably and engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Tombow Pencil Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6739369
    Abstract: A small-sized coating film transfer tool is provided, in which a transfer head is capable of turning relative to a casing. A bearing hole extends widthwise through the main body of a transfer head, and an insertion member, provided at the end of the casing, is inserted into the bearing hole. In the assembly of the tool, the insertion member is inserted into the bearing hole of the transfer head, and, when the casing is united with its cover, an end of the insertion member is engaged with a part of the cover. The inside of the bearing hole of the transfer head comes into line contact with the insertion member, allowing the transfer head to turn smoothly relative to the casing about the contact location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Fujicopian Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuya Watanabe
  • Patent number: 6732781
    Abstract: A hand-held device for transferring a film of, for example, an adhesive, a covering, or colored material, from a supply tape onto a substrate. The device has a base body, in which the supply and an application member are provided, and a cover for the application member. The cover is movable between a covering position, covering the application member, and a release position, exposing the application member. The cover is pivotably attached to the base body and to maintain the overall compactness of the device, the cover substantially follows the circular outline defined by the outer contour of the base body with minimal clearance gap between the cover and the base body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Societe BIC
    Inventor: Jeanne-Antide Bouveresse
  • Patent number: 6732782
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for transferring a film of adhesive, covering, or colored material from a backing tape onto a substrate, having a housing in which a supply reel and a take-up reel for the backing tape are rotatably mounted, and comprising an application member arranged on the housing around which the backing tape loops. The application member is mounted so as to be moveable between a retracted non-use position and a pushed forward use position in which the application member is biased towards the non-use position by elastic pull-back force. The device has an actuation member which is disposed such that it is accessible from outside and, when moved with manual actuating force, enables the application member to move into its use position in which it is pressed against the substrate to transfer the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Societe Bic
    Inventor: Franck Rollion
  • Patent number: 6729377
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hand-held device for transferring a film of adhesive, covering or colored material onto a substrate. The invention has a housing in which a film supply is arranged and an application member which extends from the interior of the housing to the outside through an opening in the housing and consists of a bearing section pivotably mounted about a swivelling axis in the housing and an application end, the film extending from the supply to the application member. To achieve a smaller construction, the application end extends from the bearing section, wherein the application end and the bearing section enclose an obtuse angle therebetween which is open towards the film approach side of the application member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Societe BIC
    Inventor: Winfried Huthmacher
  • Patent number: 6730186
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a coating film transfer tool which is made smaller to provide superior portability and which can implement the replacement of a used up coating film transfer tape with fewer operations. According to the invention, there is provided a coating film transfer tool which can facilitate the replacement of coating film transfer tapes markedly by constructing such that when the main body is divided to be opened for supply of the refill for replacement the head automatically rotates to the tape replacement position, whereas when the main body is closed after the replacement with the refill has been completed the tape is automatically taken up to be wrapped around the distal end portion of the head whereby transfer work becomes possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Plus Stationery Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 6681827
    Abstract: A mark transfer tool making use of a coat film transfer technology about various marks composed of characters, codes, patterns or their combination. A mark transfer tape is composed of pressure-sensitive adhesive transfer marks disposed and held on the surface of a base tape continuously and peelably at specific intervals, and each mark is composed of a mark and an overwriting blank space. A visual recognition line for showing the division position of transfer marks is disposed between the transfer marks, and the leading edge of the transfer head is a visual recognition positioning part, and the coincidence of the two is recognized as the standard for transfer, so that the transfer mark of the mark transfer tape can be accurately transferred on a transfer area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Seed Company Limited
    Inventors: Shigeru Tamai, Masatoshi Shintani, Kouhei Koyama
  • Patent number: 6675856
    Abstract: In a coating film transfer tool, a tape is unwound from a supply reel, fed over a transfer head, and wound onto a take-up reel driven from the supply reel by a drive mechanism having slippage. Instead of setting the average slipping torque at a high value, or minimizing its variations, to prevent it from falling below the winding threshold, the initial slipping ratio is set at a value of at least 34%. This avoids slackening of the tape without the need for close manufacturing tolerances or lubricants, and without causing a condition in which excessive force is required to wind the tape onto a take-up reel in the later stages of the tool's useful life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Fujicopian Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kozaki
  • Patent number: 6629552
    Abstract: A device for transferring a film from a carrier strip onto a substrate includes a housing having a supply reel and an empty reel. A film coated carrier strip is guided over an applicator foot where a clip-type slide element is provided in the region around which the carrier strip is looped. The clip-type slide element is made of a friction-reducing material secured to the applicator foot. The slide element has an elliptical cross-sectional shape so that on transfer of the film onto the substrate the contact pressure region of the slide element bears over an area adjacent to the substrate with interposition of the carrier strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: Pritt Produktionsgesellschft mbH
    Inventors: Wulf Herrmannsen, Wolfgang Bauersachs, Christoph Manusch, Hartmut Rudolf
  • Patent number: 6622768
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a correction tape roll device to be used for correcting erroneous or omitted letters and the like wherein securing the lateral distance between shafts for at least a pair of rolls is unnecessary, so that the spatial availability can be increased and thus the size of the device can be reduced, as compared to the conventional device in which the corresponding distance was relative large and so the device became voluminous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Inventor: Kwang Ho You
  • Patent number: 6620239
    Abstract: A transmission device for a continuous tape comprises a casing, a tape release part, a relay part and a tape collect part. The casing extending a stationary release axle, a stationary relay axle and a stationary collect axle. The tape release part provides a release sleeve to rotationally fit with the release axle with a flange at a middle section thereof locating a correction tape wheel by way of engaging ribs on the periphery of the flange. The release part further provides a release gear with an axial release hole to be fixedly attached to the release sleeve. The relay part provides a big gear integrally joining a small gear with an axial relay hole to rotationally fit with the relay axle so as to be associated with the tape release part by way of the small gear meshing with the release gear. The tape collect part provides a collect gear integrally joining a big circular plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Mcaide Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ming-Hua Yen
  • Patent number: 6607145
    Abstract: In a spray gumming unit, a gumming device is equipped with an ejector that sprays an adhesive substance and that is connected with a shutter element. The shutter element moves towards and away from the ejector between a position where it closes the ejector and in which a pad, fixed to one end of it, is in contact with the ejector, and a position where the ejector is left open. During the movement of the shutter element and of the pad between the ejector open and closed positions, an applicator applies an antiadhesive liquid substance on the pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: G.D S.p.A.
    Inventors: Silvano Boriani, Alver Tacchi, Alessandro Minarelli
  • Patent number: 6601631
    Abstract: The invention features dispensers for applying a material, e.g., a tape, to a surface. For example, the invention features a dispenser for applying a material to a surface, including a housing, at least a major portion of which is substantially cylindrical; within the housing, a supply spool rotatable about an axis and a quantity of material stored on the supply spool in a plurality of widths wide; and, at one end of the housing, an applicator head about which the material is passed, the head being constructed to press the material against the surface, the head having an edge, over which the material passes, that is disposed at an angle of greater than 5 degrees relative to a plane that is perpendicular to the longitudinal center axis of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: Berol Corporation
    Inventors: Crispin M. Miller, Jean L. Spencer
  • Patent number: 6601632
    Abstract: The invention relates to a manual device for transferring a film consisting for example of adhesive, covering or coloured material from a backing strip to a substrate, with a housing in which a supply reel and a take-up reel for the backing strip are mounted so that they can rotate via a pivot bearing, which is formed by two coaxially arranged bearing components, engaging in each other like sleeves in the region of an annular or hollow cylindrical bearing joint, of which one bearing component is held on the housing so that it cannot rotate and the other bearing component is a part of the relevant reel support and in the course of which a return stop is provided for both reels with a locking pawl which meshes with a gear ring. To guarantee a compact design and economical fabrication, the locking pawl is arranged on the one bearing component against a spring force so that it yields elastically and the gear ring is arranged on the other bearing component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: BIC Deutschland GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Jeanne-Antide Bouveresse, Winfried Huthmacher, Hans-Peter Melahn, Scott Poore, Georg Semmler
  • Patent number: 6599363
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a coating film transfer tool which can easily implement the replacement of coating film transfer tapes with as few operations as possible. In a coating film transfer tool according to the present invention, a main body case is provided which is divided into two separate case members, and the case members are disposed such that one of the two case members is manually rotated relative to the other case member. Then, provided on the one of the case members are a head retaining body adapted to be interlocked with the operation of the one case member for rotation, a supply reel to which a coating film transfer tape is detachably attached, a take-up reel around which a coating film transfer tape that has been used up is wound and a transfer mechanism for interlocking the supply reel and the take-up reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Plus Stationery Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuo Narita
  • Patent number: 6582514
    Abstract: A correction tape is constructed to include a housing formed of a bottom cover shell and a top cover shell, a tape reel mounted on an upright axle in the housing, the tape reel having an upper reel portion and a lower reel portion, a nose wheel mounted in a peripheral opening of the housing, a ratchet; which limits the direction of rotation of the tape reel on the upright axle, a tape of correction material wound round the upper reel portion and lower reel portion of the tape reel and extended through the nose wheel, and fastening adapted for securing the correction tape to a writing implement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Inventor: Jacky Yang
  • Patent number: 6575220
    Abstract: A mark transfer tool making use of a coat film transfer technology about various marks composed of characters, codes, patterns or their combination. A mark transfer tape is composed of pressure-sensitive adhesive transfer marks disposed and held on the surface of a base tape continuously and peelably at specific intervals, and a bodily sensing recess for showing the division position of transfer marks is disposed between the transfer marks. Corresponding to this configuration, a positioning bump to be engaged with the bodily sensing recess of the mark transfer tape is provided in the tape traveling part of the transfer head, and by reference to the hooking phenomenon in the traveling motion of the mark transfer tape by engagement of the two, the transfer mark on the mark transfer tape can be correctly transferred on the correction area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: Seed Company Limited
    Inventors: Shigeru Tamai, Masatoshi Shitani, Kouhei Koyama
  • Patent number: 6568450
    Abstract: The tape dispenser has a handle (1) for storing a supply of tape (18). The tape (18) consists of a backing ribbon carrying a coating composition, and backing ribbon from which the coating composition has been removed. An applicator (12) having en edge (10) around which the tape (18) passes is arranged for pressing the tape (18) against a surface to transfer the coating composition from the backing ribbon to said surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: Berol Corporation
    Inventor: Christopher John Stevens
  • Patent number: 6564847
    Abstract: A device for transferring a film from a carrier strip a substrate comprises a supply reel for the film coated carrier strip and an empty reel for receiving the de-coated carrier strip. The carrier strip is guided over an applicator base and over deflector rollers. The effective working edge of applicator base is arranged to be inclined at a fixed angle between 40° and 50° relative to the reel axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Pritt Produktionsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Wulf Herrmannsen, Christoph Manusch, Wolfgang Bauersachs
  • Patent number: 6565657
    Abstract: A hand device for transferring a film, of, for example, adhesive, covering, or colored material, from a backing strip to a substrate. A supply spool and a take-up spool for the backing strip are rotatably mounted in a housing. An applicator tip is arranged on the housing and includes an application edge around which the backing strip runs. Furthermore, a brake mechanism, active during the functional operation of the hand device is provided. The brake mechanism has a locking device which interacts with one of the spools. To guarantee a compact design and economical fabrication, the locking device is arranged to be integral with the applicator tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: BIC Deutschland GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Winfried Huthmacher
  • Patent number: 6554045
    Abstract: A film-tape eraser with normally retracted dispensing head includes an upper case, a lower case, and a dispensing mechanism pivotally connected to and located in the lower case. The upper case is also pivotally connected to the lower case to shield an upper part of the latter, while the dispensing mechanism is partially exposed from a top of the upper case. A downward push at a top of the dispensing mechanism would sink the dispensing mechanism and bring the dispensing head to a position exposed from a lower front of the lower case. When the dispensing mechanism is released from the downward push, an elastic strip at the bottom of the dispensing mechanism springs the dispensing mechanism up and brings the dispensing head to a retracted position in the lower case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Chong-Z International Co.
    Inventor: James Lee
  • Patent number: 6550518
    Abstract: A film-tape eraser with retractable dispensing head mainly includes a case, a dispensing mechanism, and a movable strip. The dispensing mechanism is forward and backward movably fitted in the case and includes a dispensing head normally projected from a dispensing opening at a lower front of the case for dispensing an erasing film-tape. The movable strip is set in a guide way provided below a curved top of the case with a rear end of the movable strip engaged with a rear end of the dispensing mechanism. When the movable strip is moved forward, it pulls the dispensing mechanism backward to retract the dispensing head into the case and closes the dispensing opening with a front section thereof; and when the movable strip is moved backward, the dispensing opening is opened and the dispensing mechanism is pushed forward to project the dispensing head from the dispensing opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Chong-Z International Co.
    Inventor: James Lee
  • Publication number: 20030066612
    Abstract: A device for transferring a film from a carrier strip onto a substrate such as a sheet of writing or drawing paper comprises a housing in which a supply reel and an empty reel are arranged. The film-coated carrier strip is guided over an applicator foot which is looped around by the carrier strip with a clip-type slide element of a friction-reducing material secured to the applicator foot. The applicator foot comprises a pivotally hinged extension arm having an end in the end portion for receiving a profile member for the slide element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Inventors: Wulf Herrmannsen, Wolfgang Bauersachs, Christoph Manusch, Hartmut Rudolf
  • Patent number: 6500259
    Abstract: A refill type coat film transfer tool, specifically a tape cartridge for a coat film transfer type having a support main body of lightweight and simple structure, capable of replacing a coat film transfer tape easily, securely and promptly. The support main body has a support base plate for rotatably supporting the opposite side ends of rotary shafts of the pay-off reel and take-up reel supported detachably and rotatably on a rotary support shaft of the case of the coat film transfer tool, and this support base plate has a flat skeletal structure having an outer contour corresponding to the inner contour of the case. Therefore as compared with the conventional plastic container, the rate of use of materials in the entire device of the support main body itself is substantially curtailed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Seed Rubber Company Limited
    Inventors: Shigeru Tamai, Kouhei Koyama, Masatoshi Shintani
  • Patent number: 6499524
    Abstract: A dispenser for applying a material to a surface includes a supply spool rotatable about an axis, a quantity of unused tape stored on the supply spool, and an applicator head about which the tape is passed. The head presses the tape against a surface to deposit a transfer layer of the tape onto the surface. A take-up spool stores a backing layer of the tape after the transfer layer has been deposited on the surface. The take-up spool is also rotatable about the axis. A housing surrounds at least a majority of the tape, a substantial portion of the housing being substantially cylindrical in shape. The tape is guided from the supply spool to the head and from the head to the take-up spool. The applicator head is located substantially along the axis, and the spools are movable along the axis. The tape causes movement of the spools along the axis as the spools are rotated about the axis. The-tape is stored on each spool in a plurality of tape layers thick and a plurality of tape widths wide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Berol Corporation
    Inventors: Crispin M. Miller, Jean L. Spencer, John M. Fritz, William Baird Shambley, Vitaly Pesikov
  • Publication number: 20020170684
    Abstract: A mark transfer tool making use of a coat film transfer technology about various marks composed of characters, codes, patterns or their combination. A mark transfer tape is composed of pressure-sensitive adhesive transfer marks disposed and held on the surface of a base tape continuously and peelably at specific intervals, and each mark is composed of a mark and an overwriting blank space. A bodily sensing recess for showing the division position of transfer marks is disposed between the transfer marks, and a positioning bump to be engaged with the bodily sensing recess is provided in the transfer head, and a hooking phenomenon of running motion of mark transfer tape by engagement of the two is recognized as the standard for transfer, so that the transfer mark of the mark transfer tape can be accurately transferred on a correction area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2002
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Inventors: Shigeru Tamai, Masatoshi Shintani, Kouhei Koyama
  • Patent number: 6481485
    Abstract: A device for transferring a film from a carrier strip onto a substrate such as a sheet of writing or drawing paper comprises a housing in which a supply reel and an empty reel are arranged. The film-coated carrier strip is guided over an applicator foot which is looped around by the carrier strip with a clip-type slide element of a friction-reducing material secured to the applicator foot. The applicator foot comprises a pivotally hinged extension arm having an end in the end portion for receiving profile member for the slide element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: Pritt Produktionsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Wulf Herrmannsen, Wolfgang Bauersachs, Christoph Manusch, Hartmut Rudolf
  • Patent number: 6454856
    Abstract: A device for winding correction tape in a corrective film dispenser comprising a supplying reel and winding reel arranged between upper and lower cases and a tape guider projected through the front ends of the cases through which a correction tape with a coating of correction film applied thereon is fed from the supplying reel to the winding reel and wherein said winding reel with a gear is arranged in the front of the cases and the supplying reel is arranged in the rear of the cases, and wherein a first auxiliary reel with a gear is arranged between the winding reel and the supplying reel and is engaged rotatively with the gear of the winding reel, and a second auxiliary reel is arranged between the supplying reel and the first auxiliary reel, said correction tape being fed from the supplying reel to the winding reel via circumferential surface of the auxiliary reels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Inventor: Gye Ho Jung
  • Patent number: 6453969
    Abstract: The invention relates to a reel assembly for a tape dispenser that includes a supply reel and a take-up reel. The reel assembly incorporates a clutch in the form of a viscous material disposed between a portion of the supply reel and a portion of the take-up reel. The viscous material serves to couple and provide controlled drag between the supply reel and take-up reel in order to properly tension a correction tape as it is dispensed from a correction tape dispenser. The invention also relates to a tape dispenser that utilizes a reel assembly having a viscous clutch and a tape cartridge. The reel assembly is preferably used in a correction tape dispenser for applying a correction film to a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: BIC Corporation
    Inventor: Daniel A. Ferrara
  • Patent number: 6453968
    Abstract: A dispensing device for double-face adhesive tape includes: a casing; a driving reel having a tape coil mounted thereon for dispensing a double-face adhesive tape outwardly; a follower reel rotatably coupled with said driving reel for recovering a releasing strip as separated from the adhesive tape as unwound from the driving reel and guided by a guiding stem; a pressing roller rotatably mounted on a front end portion of the casing for pressing and applying the double-face adhesive tape on an adhering surface; and a cutter fixed at a front end of the casing for cutting the adhesive tape at a desired length; characterized in that a rewinding mechanism is provided in the driving reel and the follower reel for rewinding a loosening tape for its tightening or for retracting the tape adhered on the releasing strip for peeling the adhesive tape to be well separated from the releasing paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Inventor: Tsang-Hung Hsu
  • Patent number: 6435248
    Abstract: An applicator for transferring a transfer material like a correction paint or paste from a transfer tape to a substate surface comprises an elastic tongue piece 8 having a tip 8′ as part of a transfer head 7. The tip 8′ has a curved discharge or downstream surface 10 whose radius of curvature is between 0.75 and 1.5 mm and a curved transfer or upstream surface 11 whose radius of curvature is between 1.5 and 2.5 mm. Both of these curved surfaces 10 and 11 are connected with each other to provide a large transferring surface 12 which ensures that the transfer material can properly be transferred onto a substrate surface over a wide range and that the transfer tape can pass the tip in a smooth and continuous manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: Tombow Pencil Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Masumoto
  • Publication number: 20020108563
    Abstract: A coating device is provided, in which a coating layer of uniform thickness can be steadily formed with high accuracy over a long time on the surface of a base-web material without being affected by the thickness irregularities of the base-web material itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Inventor: Yuko Yoshida
  • Patent number: 6418997
    Abstract: In a refill type coat film transfer tool for use in horizontal drawing, a small, simple and inexpensive tape cartridge is presented, in which the coat film transfer tape can be replaced easily, quickly and securely, and it can be held and used like a writing tool corresponding to the manner of holding a writing tool by the user. On a support board, a rotatable feed reel winding a coat film transfer tape thereon, a rotatable take-up reel for recovering the coat film transfer tape after use, and a coat film transfer head for pressing the coat film transfer tape to a transfer area are provided. The support board rotatably supports the opposite side ends of the rotary shafts of both reels detachably and rotatably supported on the rotary support shafts of the case of the coat film transfer tool, and the coat film transfer head is supported on the head holding portion of the support board rotatably about the head axial center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Seed Rubber Company Limited
    Inventors: Shigeru Tamai, Kouhei Koyama, Masatoshi Shintani
  • Patent number: 6379461
    Abstract: A coating tool is provided which is adapted to transfer a paste or a correcting paint from a transfer tape to a target object. The coating tool comprises a main body housing therein a supply reel and a supply reel gear, supported by a first shaft, and a take-up reel and a take-up reel gear, supported by a second shaft. According to one embodiment of the present invention the coating tool includes an annular rib formed on the cylindrical portion of the supply reel gear and an elastic edging strip, for holding and engaging the supply reel gear, formed on the inner wall surface of the engagement hole of the supply reel and positioned between the annular rib and the supply reel gear. Accordingly, the delivery and taking-up of the transfer tape can be performed smoothly and securely without the thermal deformation of the elastic edging strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Tombow Pencil Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Masumoto
  • Patent number: 6363992
    Abstract: A device for transferring a film from a tape carrier to a substrate. The device, otherwise known as a tape applicator, has a housing in which are arranged a supply wheel for the tape carrier coated with the film, and a take-up wheel (displaced radially with respect to the supply wheel) for receiving the tape carrier once the film has been separated therefrom. An application device, projects from the housing and presents the side of the tape carrier coated with film to the substrate. A drive connection together with a slip coupling is formed between the supply wheel and the take-up wheel by a friction drive, in which, when the supply wheel is driven by drawing off the tape carrier, the drive connection drives the take-up wheel at such a rotational speed that the tape carrier remains always tensioned. In order to improve the transfer of torque between the wheels, the wheels each have at least one disc-shaped wheel wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: BIC Deutschland GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Georg Semmler
  • Patent number: 6363990
    Abstract: In a coating film transfer tool in which a transferable film is carried by a tape base, tape breakage and non-uniform film application due to twisting are avoided by providing the tape supply and take-up reels in a cassette which also includes a fixed transfer head and mounting shafts. The cassette is disposed in a casing with its transfer head protruding out of the casing, and with its mounting shafts supported in bearings in the casing so that the cassette and transfer head can rotate relative to the casing. Since the tape cassette is rotatable integrally with the tape and the transfer head, when the transfer head is rotated to follow a tape-receiving surface, the tape does not become twisted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Fujicopian Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kozaki