US 10,570,989 B2 · Manually operated balancing weight dispenser

Abstract

A balancing weight dispenser has a balancing weight storage space for storing a belt of balancing weights on a reel, a belt guide, and a cutter at one end of and/or along a length of the belt guide. The cutter comprises a knife, which is fixedly attached to the balancing weight dispenser. For delivery of a required amount of balancing weight mass, the belt of balancing weights is pulled from the reel until the desired number of balancing weights has been obtained. In the next step, the belt of balancing weights is cut, preferably between two adjacent balancing weights, to separate the selected portion of balancing weights from the remaining belt of balancing weights. The remaining belt falls back to the guide and remains in a desired position for receiving the next portion of balancing weights. This manually operated balancing weight dispenser can be provided at significantly lower costs compared to the automated high performance balancing weight dispensers as known from the prior art. It is very robust and has no serviceable parts.

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Dependent claims

Balancing weight dispenser comprising:

a dispenser body having a base and defining a balancing weight storage space within the base, the balancing weight storage space configured to store a belt of balancing weights;
a belt guide coupled in fixed relation to the dispenser body and configured to support a portion of the belt of balancing weights from below along a longitudinal direction of movement as the portion of the belt of balancing weights extends from the balancing weight storage space, and
a cutter comprising a cutter body and a knife and coupled to the dispenser body, the cutter body defines a slot and is configured to hold the knife in a fixed relation to the cutter body such that a cutting edge of the knife is exposed in the slot,
where the cutter further comprises a cutter guide that is offset from a cutting plane defined by the knife,
where a position of the cutter is static in relation to the belt guide, and
where the cutter is positioned such that the longitudinal direction of movement extends toward and/or through the cutter.

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Balancing weight dispenser comprising:

a dispenser body having a base and defining a balancing weight storage space within the base, the balancing weight storage space configured to store a belt of balancing weights;
a belt guide coupled in fixed relation to the dispenser body and having an upper surface configured to support a portion of the belt of balancing weights from below along a longitudinal direction of movement as the portion of the belt of balancing weights extends from the balancing weight storage space, a plane defined by a surface of the belt guide extends along the longitudinal direction of movement;
and
a cutter comprising a cutter body and a knife and coupled to the dispenser body, the cutter body defines a slot and is configured to hold the knife in a fixed relation to the cutter body such that a cutting edge of the knife is exposed in the slot;
where the cutter further comprises a cutter guide that is offset from a cutting plane defined by the knife,
where a position of the knife is static in relation to the belt guide such that the cutting edge of the knife faces a lateral direction that extends across the longitudinal direction of movement;
and
where the cutter is positioned such that the longitudinal direction of movement extends toward and/or through the cutter.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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