Roll-up grout bag
OwnerSean P Dennyinventor
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Abstract
A roll-up grout bag apparatus includes a dowel with a slot formed therethrough from an open end to a closed end thereof. A lever is engaged with the dowel at the closed end to facilitate rolling the dowel about an axis thereof. The slot receives a filling end of a grout bag and is rolled onto the dowel using the lever to urge grout within the bag to be dispensed from an opening at a narrow dispensing end of the bag. The apparatus may include a ratchet mechanism to engage the lever with the dowel.
Claims14
An extrusion apparatus for use with a material bag adapted to contain a viscous flowable material and having a narrow dispensing end and a wide filling end opposite the dispensing end to urge the viscous flowable material from the dispensing end, the apparatus comprising:
- (a) a material bag that is hand held and adapted to be fully supported by a user during use;
- (b) an elongated dowel engaged with a wide filling end of the material bag containing a viscous flowable material to urge such a material from a dispensing end of such a bag when the dowel is rolled with the bag;
- (c) a ratcheting socket wrench engaged with the dowel to operably rotate the dowel when operated to facilitate rolling such a material bag onto the dowel.
A masonry composition dispensing apparatus for selectively dispensing a narrow flowable bead of the masonry composition and comprising:
- (a) a grout bag adapted to contain the masonry composition and having a narrow dispensing end and a wide filling end opposite the dispensing end;
- the grout bag being adapted to be held in the hands of a user and entirely supported by the user during operation;
- (b) an elongated, substantially cylindrical dowel engaged with the bag at the filling end to enable rolling the bag from the filling end to urge a grout from the dispensing end;
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- (c) a ratchetable socket wrench radially engaged with the dowel to facilitate rolling the bag onto the dowel.
A flowable grout dispensing apparatus for selectively dispensing a narrow bead of a masonry composition and comprising:
- (a) a grout bag adapted to contain the grout and having a narrow dispensing end and a wide filling end opposite the dispensing end;
- the grout bag being sized and shaped to be held in the hands of a user and being fully supported by the user;
- (b) an elongated, substantially cylindrical dowel engaged with the bag at the filling end to enable rolling the bag from the filling end to urge a grout from the dispensing end;
- (c) an elongated slot formed in the dowel to receive the wide end of the grout bag to enable rolling the bag onto the dowel;
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- (d) a ratchetable socket wrench radially engaged with the dowel and being operable to facilitate rolling the bag onto the dowel.
A method of applying a narrow bead of a viscous flowable grout comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a hand held and operator supported material bag adapted to contain the viscous flowable grout and having a narrow dispensing end and a wide filling end opposite the dispensing end;
- (b) engaging the wide end of the bag with a dowel to enable rolling the bag from the wide end onto the dowel;
- (c) engaging a ratchetable socket wrench with the dowel to facilitate rolling the bag onto the dowel;
- (d) placing the dispensing end of the bag at a location where a viscous flowable material is to be applied;
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- (c) rolling the bag onto the dowel using the ratchetable socket wrench so as to urge a flowable material from within the bag through the dispensing end thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.