Abstract: A dispensing aid is disclosed for attachment to an annular roll of tape that has an inside radial surface and an outer radial tape surface, such as a roll of masking tape for example. A pair of side risers each have at a lower end thereof an opposing, inwardly-projecting tab that is configured for sliding along the inside radial surface of the roll of tape. A top platform laterally spans the outer radial tape surface width and is fixed with an upper end of each riser. The distance between each riser may be adjustable to accommodate different tape roll widths. A cutting blade projects away from the top platform at a forward end of the platform. One of the risers may include a central slot wherein the riser is slidably engaged within the slot. The riser may include a pivot mechanism such that the riser may pivot from a vertical closed position to a horizontal open position, thereby facilitating the attachment and removal of the aid with the tape roll.

Abstract: A motor-free dunnage conversion system for converting a sheet stock material into a relatively less dense dunnage includes a container having a wall with an opening therethrough, a supply of sheet stock material within the container, and a forming member. The forming member has converging sidewalls that define a passage alignable with the opening in the wall. The forming member is a converging chute having a relatively larger inlet spaced from the outlet, which is relatively smaller than the inlet. The forming member functions to crumple the sheet stock material as a packer draws the sheet stock material through the forming member to form a crumpled strip of dunnage. The forming member has a dimension that is larger than a corresponding dimension of the opening to keep the forming member from escaping the container as the packer pulls the stock material through the forming member.

Abstract: An improved dispenser for thin, flexible hand coverings includes a unique mechanism to retain the opposing edges of the flexible film as it is advanced and applied to the hand, thereby promoting a controlled stretching, adherence and release. In the preferred embodiment, the entrapment of the film edges is carried out using interlocking chains that advance through guide channels. Another improvement is that the housing of the dispenser in this case is raised as the user pulls down the film to be adhered, and it is the weight of the dispenser that causes the unit to reset for the next use, thereby eliminating the need for springs, at least for this purpose.

Abstract: An improved dispenser for thin, flexible hand coverings includes a unique mechanism to retain the opposing edges of the flexible film as it is advanced and applied to the hand, thereby promoting a controlled stretching, adherence and release. In the preferred embodiment, the entrapment of the film edges is carried out using interlocking chains that advance through guide channels. Another improvement is that the housing of the dispenser in this case is raised as the user pulls down the film to be adhered, and it is the weight of the dispenser that causes the unit to reset for the next use, thereby eliminating the need for springs, at least for this purpose.

Abstract: A device for separating stick-on material, such as self-adhesive stamps from a roll of backing tape to which the stick-on material is adhered, for dispensing and applying the stick-on material onto an application surface, and for storing the empty tape. The device provides a chamber for holding a supply roll of backing tape and stick-on material so that backing tape and adhered stick-on material can be payed out from the roll in a first direction. The tape is guided along a path that causes the tape initially to extend in said first direction and then in a second direction angularly related to the first direction so that as the tape changes direction it separates from the stick-on material.

Abstract: A stamp affixer apparatus and method is disclosed. A top shell, bottom shell attached to the top shell, and a stamp housing is provided. A first gear assembly is rotatably attached to the stamp housing. A second gear assembly is engaged with the first gear assembly and rotatably attached to the stamp housing. A drive roller is fixedly attached to the second gear assembly. A roll of adhesive backed stamps on backing paper may be inserted in a portion of the stamp housing. A lead-in portion of the backing paper is attached to a shaft portion of the first gear assembly. As the drive roller is pulled along a desired surface, its rotation is translated through the second gear assembly to the first gear assembly. The first gear assembly winds up the backing paper and an adhesive backed stamp is dispensed against the surface.

Abstract: An environmentally insensitive device is described. The device uses a passive paper guide to direct an output paper stream from a paper source contained within the unit to an output aperture. The passive paper guide uses two opposing surfaces to define a radius of curvature through which the paper strip is guided. Use of longitudinal ridges along one or both of the surfaces reduces friction along the guide. By providing a rotatable output cover over the aperture and using a unit cover, a printed output can be achieved while maintaining the shielding of the unit from environmental effects.

Abstract: A dispensing apparatus for serially dispensing plastic bags from a wound roll of continuous flexible plastic bags joined along perforated severance lines. A box like container is provided which is adapted to receive the wound roll of plastic bags. The container has a bottom panel, a top panel, a rear panel, a front panel, and a pair of opposed side panels. The front panel defines a guide slot for guiding the plastic bags from the wound roll along a predetermined path and further defining a threading slide for threading the plastic bags from the wound roll into the guide slot. A separation tongue is located on the front panel for separating the plastic bags from the wound roll as the plastic bags engage the separation tongue along a predetermined path of travel.

Abstract: A printed paper dispensing and severing apparatus includes an elongated paper to be printed, dispensed and severed. A printer including a positive drive mechanism projects paper along a guide path to an exit chute in a housing, the guide path being defined at least in part by a deflection plate so that the projection of the paper will encounter the deflection plate and be guided to exit the housing. A cutting mechanism adjacent the guide path includes a blade with a centrally peaked ridge in a guide surface generally parallel to the guide path. The reliability of this mechanism is dramatically improved due the absence of moving parts in the guide path, cutter blade, deflection plate and exit chute. The guide path and the exit chute are angled to one another, the elongated paper is provided in the form of a roll of paper which gives the paper a curl and the curl of the paper is in the same sense as the angle.

Abstract: A dispenser for roll paper includes a receptacle body having front and rear sidewalls, left and right sidewalls, a bottom and a top pivotally attached to the rear sidewall, covering an opening for adding the roll to the interior space. A recess formed in the lid defines an opening that allows the users fingers to grasp the free end of the web at the recess. A slot between the lid and front wall of the receptacle allow the web to be dispensed, and an arm suspended from the inside of the receptacle holds the free end of the web against the front of the receptacle and adjacent the recess, in a position that allows the user to easily grab the free end of the web.

Abstract: A paint removing substance is mounted on an elongated backing member and a cover sheet is removably mounted on top of the substance. The backing member and cover are helically wound onto a reel and stored in a dispensing container. The container includes two dispensing openings, one for the paint-removing substance containing backing member, and one for the cover sheet. Some portions of the backing member are free of paint-removing substance and adhesive material is located in those areas whereby the tape can be removably affixed to the paint containing substrate.

Abstract: A container for carrying a uniform, fan-folded stack of plastic sheet assemblies and for allowing the assemblies to be conveniently dispensed, one at a time, with minimal risk that the stack will become jammed. The stack of assemblies is retained behind a constriction within an elongated chamber having a corresponding shape and slightly larger size. Pulling the forward-most assembly through a narrow channel and exit slot at the forward end of the container flexes a trailing assembly past the constriction, while the remaining assemblies remain retained behind the constriction. In addition, a shallow recess in a wall defining the narrow channel conformingly receives a plastic sheet assembly in position to be dispensed, with the recess' rear periphery inhibiting the assembly from being moved unintentionally back into the chamber.

Abstract: A wall mounted toilet tissue dispenser for two very large rolls of toilet tissue. The rolls are rotatably supported side by side in the dispenser with the axis of each roll perpendicular to the mounting wall of the dispenser. Paper is dispensed through a dispensing opening located at the bottom of the dispenser. Tail guide members are provided in the dispenser for limiting the location in the dispensing opening of the tail of each roll of tissue and for guaranteeing that the paper is at an angle to the vertical when the paper is severed so that after the paper is cut the tail will project below the dispensing opening when the paper falls to a vertical position.

Abstract: A dispenser for a roll of sheet material has a body that defines an elongate chamber open at the front. Baffle and closure members are pivotally mounted to the body for movement between open and closed positions. The baffle member can be mounted at a lower edge, while the closure member is mounted at an upper edge. A closure member includes a cutting edge for a sheet of material. In the closed positions of the baffle and closure members, material from a roll passes through a gap formed between the baffle and closure members. A piece of the sheet of material can then be torn off by one hand, by pulling it against the cutting edge.

Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing sheet material, particularly metallic foil, positions each successively leading end region of the foil, after a preceding length of the foil has been severed, to stand freely in a generally upright condition away from a severing means which is preferably provided without sharp serrated cutting teeth to protect a user from injury during use of the dispenser, and to provide the user with ready access to each upstanding leading end region of the foil.

Abstract: A paper web (3) forming a roll is drawn therefrom in a direction perpendicular to the roll axis, passed over a direction changing guide edge (4), and is separated from the roll against a tear edge (5) located in the proximity of one end of the roll.

Abstract: A tape dispenser for an agricultural/industrial environment having wind and dirt dispenses tape adhesive side upwardly exposed. Centrally of the dispenser there is placed a roll of tape conventionally wound in a spiral. The roll of tape has an outwardly exposed adhesive release surface and an inwardly exposed adhesive coated surface and is wound in a first direction. In the dispenser, the tape is threaded from the first direction of its spiral wound path to a reversed path around the roll in a second and opposite direction. Typically, the reversed path is defined over the surfaces of four rollers with the adhesive release side inwardly exposed to the rollers and the adhesive coated side outwardly exposed. The roll and reverse path are encased within a housing to prevent the outwardly exposed adhesive from adhering either to ambient dust or nearby objects. The tape passes free from the housing along a dispensing path to a convention severing tape knife.

Abstract: A device for dispensing tape in desired lengths from a supply reel which is rotatably supported in a housing and fed out by means of a manually actuable drive wheel which also has, in the housing, a knife which is manually actuable in the direction of the tape to cut the tape. The device makes it easy to single-handedly separate from the supply reel a desired length of tape.

Abstract: An improved tape dispenser/receptacle having complimentary oblong-shaped top and bottom portions adapted to mate with each other, wherein the improvement consists of: first and second spool-dispensing axes, each axes composed of ten pegs; longitudinally-oriented inner and outer sets of ridges, extending downward from underneath the device's top portion; a plurality of tape exist and flattening apertures; resilient tabs extending outward from the device's side walls, in one-to-one correspondence with the exit/flattening apertures; and a cutting surface. The spool-dispensing axes hold rolls of tape or other material which may be marked with identifying indicia. The inner ridges touch the radial surface of the tape rolls to keep the rolls from wobbling during dispensing, while the outer ridges act as means to keep the tape straight en route through the exit/flattening apertures.

Abstract: A cutting device for a continuous paper web (4), said web being advanced from a paper web supply (8) by the aid of at least one advancing means (11, 14, 15) to a feed-out location (17) where the cutting may take place, a deflector (16) being provided downstream of said advancing means (11, 14, 15) and changing the direction of movement of said web (4), so that the web is advanced toward the feed-out location (17). A stationary knife (18) is provided downstream of said deflector (16), the edge of said knife (18) being arranged so as to face away from said feed-out location (17) and toward said deflector (16) and the edge of said knife forming an acute angle with said deflector means (16). Said deflector is a sheet shaped to be bendable toward the base of said knife, the edge of said knife (18) not contacting and cutting said paper web until the free end (4') of the web is pulled, e.g. by hand (19), in a direction forming an angle with said deflector (16) and, thus, bending it.

Abstract: The invention concerns a dispenser of continuous, severable strips, of the kind with a case (1), a passageway (S) for the end of the strip and a cutting blade (16) provided with cutter means (16a). The dispenser comprises a first auxiliary blade (17) provided with a cover section (17a) applying friction to the strip and a stop section (17b) which during the severing operation is subjected to a pressure exerted by the cutting blade (16) and locks the strip at the cover section (17a); the dispenser also comprises a second auxiliary blade (18) protecting the cutter means (16a) when in the rest position and withdrawing behind the cutting blade when in the cutting position. The storage space (3) of the case can be designed to hold a continuous, accordion-folded strip.

Abstract: A dispensing apparatus for tissue rolls has a body member with a base portion, and a cover which is movable between a closed operating position and an open loading position. The base portion has sidewalls with bearing portions for a cylindrical tissue roll support and a front wall with an opening through which the free end of a tissue roll can be grasped by a finger of the user, pulled out of the opening and severed by engagement with a cutting edge extending across the opening. A lower guide plate member has an outer edge pivotally supported on the base portion for swinging movement around an axis parallel and close to the cutting edge inwardly above the roll support to rest on the tissue roll and support the outermost layer of tissue from the roll toward the cutting edge.

Abstract: A ticket dispensing assembly for dispensing tickets from a flexible strip is described having a container made up of a casing and a cover containing a roll comprising a strip of flexible material the end of which protrudes from the container. The strip has a series of penetrated lines spaced longitudinally along the strip with each line forming an individual tongue shaped flap extending from adjacent one marginal edge portion of the strip to adjacent the other marginal edge portion of the strip and projecting forwardly in the feeding direction of the strip.

Abstract: A tape container and dispensing apparatus formed of plastic material including means for advancing the tape to dispense a strip of any desired length and integrally formed shearing means to provide scissors-like shearing action to sever the tape strip.