Implement Carried Web Supply Patents (Class 156/577)
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20030183344
    Abstract: A tape dispenser comprises a housing, which is constructed from a first and a second housing pieces. The housing has a first aperture and a second aperture. A tape seat has a base wall and two side walls. A tape wheel is installed in between the side walls for free rotating. A second roller is pivoted at front side of the base wall. The tape seat is detachably installed to the housing for a third aperture formed at between the end of the base wall and the housing. A coupler link is received in the housing with the midsection thereof pivoted to the housing. A press member is received in the housing for displacing within a predetermined distance, which has a part extending out of the housing via the first aperture and has an end pivoted to an end of the coupler link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Inventor: Chen-Yuan Lai
  • Publication number: 20030183343
    Abstract: In order to use a length of tape having no liner on its rear side, a hand labeler includes a tape-feeding mechanism having a rotary drum for making the length of tape advance a predetermined length; and a tape peeling-off mechanism for forcedly unrolling the tape roll against its adhesive power. The peeling-off mechanism is placed between the tape holder section and the rotary drum of the tape-feeding mechanism, and it comprises a peeling-off drum ganged with the rotary drum of the tape-feeding mechanism and a tape-feeding roll or rolls freely rotatable to cooperate with the circumference of the peeling-off drum for gripping the length of tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2003
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Inventor: Toshikazu Kawada
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20030164220
    Abstract: A stand and powered actuator for supporting and operating an adhesive segment applicator apparatus for use with carrier release tape having pressure-sensitive adhesive segments attached thereto is disclosed which has a mechanism which interacts with an indexing instrumentality on the carrier release tape to facilitate the dispensing of individual adhesive segments. The indexing mechanism consists of a plurality of patterned scores, cuts, or indentations located in the surface of the carrier release tape, thereby allowing for a power actuated advancement mechanism in the adhesive segment applicator apparatus to engage and advance the carrier release tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2003
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Inventors: John P. Downs, Burton J. Peterson
  • Patent number: 6612474
    Abstract: A tape dispenser dispenses rolled adhesive tape spirally wound on a hub having an inner cylindrical wall, and an outer cylindrical wall, and a wide “I” cross-section. The dispenser has first and second side members, and a cutter member. Each of the side members has a first major side portion which overlies a roll of adhesive tape within the tape dispenser. The cutter member is mounted between second minor side portions of the side members. A cylindrical axle is formed centrally on the inside surface of the first major side portion of at least one of the side members. There is at least one brake spoke upstanding from the inside surface of that side member, radially extending and spaced away from the cylindrical axle. At least the first side member is flexible in the region of the first major side portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Inventor: Kumud Shah
  • Publication number: 20030145954
    Abstract: A device for hanging wallpaper comprises a cradle in the form of a framework defining a receptacle for supporting a length of wallpaper folded in a concertina fashion. An applicator roller is mounted on the cradle for receiving therearound a leading edge portion of the supported length of wallpaper which is led out of the receptacle to the application roller through a throat of the cradle. A handle attached to the cradle enables a user to hold the device in a position of use with the applicator roller against a surface to be wallpapered and to move the device along the surface, so that the length of wallpaper is progressively unfolded from the cradle and pressed against the surface by the applicator roller as the device is moved along the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2003
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Inventor: Henry Kelvin James
  • 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: 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20030138569
    Abstract: A dispensing tool will mix and dispense viscous material having first and second parts or constituents. The tool has a handheld elongated tube with a nozzle on one end. A blender is located adjacent the nozzle. The first constituent is located within a chamber in the tube. The second constituent is located in a reservoir mounted to the tube. The blender has an inlet receiving first and second constituents and a rotary member for mixing the constituents and delivering them through an outlet to the nozzle. A piston driven by a wheel delivers the first constituent to the blender. The wheel rotates when the nozzle end of the tube is advanced along an application surface, causing the piston to move and the blender to rotate. A pump, also driven by the wheel, supplies a second constituent from the reservoir to the blender.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2003
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Inventor: Daniel Dea Dillinger
  • Publication number: 20030136522
    Abstract: A hand-held tape dispenser with tape positioning structure mainly includes a tape reel from which a length of tape is dispensed and applied onto a surface, and a holding-down plate adapted to push a blade below it to cut the dispensed tape. The tape positioning structure includes two L-shaped plates fixed to two sides of the blade. Each of the two L-shaped plates has a hooked front end exposed from one side of a front plate located below the blade. When the blade is pushed forward to cut the dispensed tape, the hooked front ends of the L-shaped plates move forward at the same time to hook up a free end of the cut tape, and when the holding-down plate is released and the blade retracts, the cut tape is held by the retracted hooked front ends to the front plate for use next time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Inventor: Wei-Hsiu Hua
  • Patent number: 6595260
    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 visual recognition line for showing the division position of transfer marks are disposed between the transfer marks. Corresponding to this configuration, the leading edge of the transfer head of the mark transfer tool 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 correction area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Seed Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Tamai, Masatoshi Shintani, Kouhei Koyama
  • Publication number: 20030131944
    Abstract: The device has a roll (1) of a carrier strip (2) holding pieces (3) of two sided adhesive tape and wound on a hub (5) with an outer radius and provided with a circular cogging (6), a support (7) for the roll (1) comprising a stub shaft (9) with a direction of axis around which the roll rotates when dispensing tape pieces (3), a brake pawl (23) for engagement with the circular cogging (6), a pressure base (15) being in connection with the brake pawl (23) such that the engagement of the brake pawl (23) with the cogging (6) is released by pressure on the pressure base (15), a peripheral wall (10) extending along a part of the periphery of the roll (1), and a path for the carrier strip (2) extending past the pressure base (15) and along a part of the outside of the peripheral wall (11), the pressure base (15) comprising an outer sliding surface (16, 17) defining a part of the path for the carrier strip (2) with the two sided adhesive tape where the path at the pressure base (15) comprises a portion with a relativ
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Applicant: 3L - LUDVIGSEN A/S
    Inventor: Frits Ludvigsen
  • Patent number: 6588475
    Abstract: A device for welding overlapping roof membranes comprising a chassis, an air discharge chute and a flame distribution assembly communicating with the air discharge chute. The flame distribution assembly includes a gaseous fuel source inlet, a primary burner, and an ignition source. A control unit ignites the primary burner by the ignition source. The blower connected to an inlet port of the air discharge chute directs heat generated by the primary burner through an air discharge outlet for welding the overlapping roof membranes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: NTE Equipment, Inc.
    Inventors: James J. Simon, Jr., Scott M. Bockelman, Don Dubuc
  • Publication number: 20030121613
    Abstract: A mark transfer tool utilizing a coat film transfer technology, concerning various marks composed of characters, codes, patterns or their combination. A mark transfer tape has multiple pressure-sensitive adhesive transfer marks adhered and held at specified intervals peelably on the surface of a base tape, and the transfer marks are prepared as adhesive seals of which adhesive force of the back-side pressure sensitive adhesive layer adhered to the transfer area is set larger than the adhesive holding force on the base tape. Like adhesive seals, the transfer marks once transferred on the transfer area can be once peeled off and adhered again, or peeled and removed when no longer needed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2002
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventors: Shigeru Tamai, Masatoshi Shintani, Mikio Toyoda, Nobuyuki Motoyama, Yoshiyuki Hori, Goro Inoue
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20030098122
    Abstract: The present application generally relates to adhesive transfer devices. One embodiment of the application discloses a hand-held actuatorless adhesive transfer device. Another embodiment of the application discloses an adhesive transfer device for applying adhesive to a side edge portion of a selected substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2003
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Applicant: XYRON,INC.
    Inventors: Joseph P.E. Velasquez, Paul Lemens, Jerry L. Hardy
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20030094243
    Abstract: The system comprises, on the one hand, a dispensing device, and on the other hand, at least one roll of strip of great length having a central opening optionally associated with a hub or a core, said system being provided with means for guiding an unwound free end of strip out of the dispenser and applying it to a surface known as the “destination surface,” said device comprising:
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Inventors: Jean Joseph Marie Charriere, Marie Therese Georgette Charriere
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20030084989
    Abstract: A tape dispenser for precisely applying decorative tape for creating the appearance of a bevel onto a glass surface. The tape dispenser includes a frame, a tape spool rotatably mounted to the frame, a drive roller rotatably mounted to said frame for controlling a length of such tape unwound from said tape spool, a platen having an angular front end portion that causes a liner to separate from the tape, and a rewind spool rotatably mounted to the frame. The tape spool, drive roller, platen and rewind spool define a path of travel from the tape spool, around the drive roller, around the front end portion of said platen, to said rewind spool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2001
    Publication date: May 8, 2003
    Applicant: Glass Equipment Development, Inc.
    Inventor: William A. Briese
  • Publication number: 20030079841
    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: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2001
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kozaki
  • Patent number: 6553884
    Abstract: An adhesive tape dispenser for dispensing and cutting a length of an adhesive tape. The adhesive tape dispenser comprises an adhesive tape cutting device. The adhesive tape cutting device comprises a) a resting surface to which a tacky side of said adhesive tape can be adhered while the adhesive tape is being cut, b) two lateral webs extending in the same direction from both edges of the resting surface to serve as guides for the adhesive tape, and c) a cutting blade having a blade edge and positioned on an inner side of one or both lateral webs in such a way that the blade edge is inclined at an angle which is oblique relative to the resting surface. The lateral webs have a height from the resting surface which is the same or is higher than each cutting blade. The adhesive tape dispenser is useful to dispense and cut adhesive tapes comprising a backing of biaxially oriented or highly stretched film, such as polyolefin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: tesa AG
    Inventors: Bernd Lühmann, Ralf Schliephacke, Jörn Leiber, Andreas Reklau, Hans Hazes, Hansjürgen Linde, Uwe Neumann, Peter Kubasch
  • 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: 6550515
    Abstract: A dispensing apparatus is provided for dispensing a masking apron of the type including a sheet of apron material having a strip of adhesive tape overlapping along one side thereof. The apparatus generally includes a frame structure which supports a shaft having plural longitudinal sections mounted end to end along a vertical axis. Each longitudinal section is arranged to mount a corresponding roll of apron material thereon while remaining selectively separable from adjacent longitudinal sections to simplify the task of replacing a lowermost roll on the shaft. An elongate cutting blade is provided which extends at an angle offset from the shaft for providing a gradual cutting edge to cut the dispensed masking apron from the dispensing apparatus. A retainer member which is biased inwardly towards the shaft is provided for securing the roll of apron material between the shaft and the corresponding retainer member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Inventor: Edward Lavelle
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20030066611
    Abstract: A tape and joint compound dispenser is formed by a housing defining an interior chamber for receiving joint compound and joint tape. A valved port in the housing opens into the chamber for supplying joint compound. A tape lifter in the chamber enables the user to lift the tape in the chamber to facilitate supplying joint compound to the chamber through the port and below the tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2002
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Inventor: David T. Gunn
  • Patent number: 6543511
    Abstract: A dispenser is provided for adhesive tape. The dispenser includes a tape roll chamber with a hub having an axis about which a roll of tape may rotate. A tape dispensing channel extends from the tape roll chamber. The tape dispensing channel is configured to twist the tape approximately 90° about its longitudinal axis. Additionally, the tape dispensing channel is oriented such that the axis of the tape at the end of the tape dispensing channel is aligned at an acute angle to a plane defined by the axis of the tape wound onto the roll of tape. A window is defined near the end of the tape dispensing channel to enable an index finger to apply pressure to the non-adhesive surface of the tape for urging the adhesive surface of the tape against a substrate. A blade support wall is disposed distally of the window and includes a serrated blade for severing the tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Inventor: Volker Niermann
  • Publication number: 20030062135
    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: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Inventor: Katsuaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 6540856
    Abstract: A tape and wallboard compound dispenser is a handheld unit that has a separate compound channel and tape channel, both of which terminate slightly rearward of a blade located on the forward end of the unit. The unit has a housing with a compartment for containing a roll of tape. A flexible strap is mounted to the side of the housing to provide a loop for insertion of a hand of a user to carry the dispenser. In a manual mode, a single lever controls flow of compound from a pump to the compound channel as well as severing the tape at the end of the stroke. The lever has an off position that shuts off flow of compound to the compound channel. It has an on position that allows flow of compound to the compound channel. It has a cutting position that actuates a cutting mechanism to cut the tape and simultaneously to shut off flow of compound to the compound channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Renegade Tool, LLC
    Inventors: John E. O'Mara, Robert E. O'Mara, Daniel Dea Dillinger
  • Patent number: 6540002
    Abstract: Mesh drywall tape dispensing apparatus includes a chassis with a pistol grip for one-hand operation, a tape reel, a tape guide roller mounted within the chassis, and a tape pressure roller mounted adjacent a front end of the chassis. A tape cutter trigger assembly is mounted within the chassis by the pivot pin of the guide roller and movable into a cutting position. The cutter includes a serrated knife edge directed away from the pressure roller at an acute angle to the tape extending from the guide roller to the pressure roller. A corner roller is pivotally mounted on the chassis for movement into a tape engaging position. The pistol grip and the tape reel are mounted on opposite sides of the chassis and adjacent a rear end with the pressure roller mounted adjacent the front end so that the apparatus is generally bounded by a first plane tangent to the pressure roller and bounding a tape roll on the reel and the corner roller therein and a second plane tangent to the pressure roller and the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Equity Earnings Corp.
    Inventors: Toby Edwards, Shane Edwards, Dan B. Pool
  • Publication number: 20030056906
    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: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Inventor: Kwang Ho You
  • Publication number: 20030051820
    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: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Inventor: Jeanne-Antide Bouveresse
  • Publication number: 20030047286
    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: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2002
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Inventor: Yasuo Narita
  • Publication number: 20030041977
    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: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Inventor: Franck Rollion
  • Publication number: 20030037886
    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: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2002
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Applicant: TOMBOW PENCIL CO., LTD
    Inventor: Kenji Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20030034133
    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: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Publication date: February 20, 2003
    Inventor: Winfried Huthmacher
  • Patent number: 6521045
    Abstract: A clutch mechanism having an easy-to-manufacture and inexpensive constitution, by making use of frictional engaging force in thrust direction, in a coat film transfer tool of automatic winding type. At least at the feed reel side, a clutch mechanism is provided between a driven member of a tape winding portion and a drive side rotary gear for rotating and driving it, and its power transmission makes use of the frictional engaging force in thrust direction between the driven member and drive side rotary gear. This frictional engaging force can be set by properly adjusting the dimensional relation in thrust direction between the mutual constituent members, and therefore the designing and manufacturing conditions of the constituent members are less strict, manufacture is easy, assembling is easy, and hence the manufacturing cost and device cost can be lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Seed Rubber Company Limited
    Inventors: Kouhei Koyama, Shigeru Tamai, Masatoshi Shintani
  • Publication number: 20030024652
    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: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Winfried Huthmacher, Georg Semmler, Roland Schneider
  • Publication number: 20030024653
    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: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventor: Jeanne-Antide Bouveresse
  • Publication number: 20030024651
    Abstract: A conventional adhesive tape adhering device has a problem that the adhering device can not stably move straightly for adhering operation, and there is an adverse possibility that reliably adhering operation can not be carried out if there are small bumps and dips on the adherend surface or if pressing roller is worn, or due to assembling precision of the adhering device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventor: Sakae Urushizaki
  • Patent number: 6513562
    Abstract: This invention provides a unitary nozzle for use in a taping apparatus. The unitary nozzle features a cradle section adjacent a tube receiving section and a flange for sealingly receiving a mastic tube. A mastic is extruded and contained along a path extending along one side of the tape and between a front and rear end of the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Inventor: Willis Z. Trout
  • Patent number: 6510884
    Abstract: An adhesive tape dispenser has a lower compartment 10 with a bottom aperture 12 and a cutting blade 13 at one side of the aperture. Tape is dispensed through the aperture 12 and chosen length severed by the blade 13. The figure shows the situation where an end of a desired length is about to be severed by continuing to move the dispenser to the right. During dispensing, a pressure roller 18, mounted adjacent the aperture, is pressed down to press the tape firmly against an external surface and to space the tape away from the cutting blade 13 during dispensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: C. C. & L Company Limited
    Inventor: Sik-Leung Chan
  • 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
  • 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