US 10,865,573 B2Granted

System, apparatus and methods for a hand-held dry wall tape applicator

OwnerJohn Verhaarinventor

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Abstract

A hand held combined tool for drywall taping including a drywall tape applicator attached to a smoothening blade is described. The dry wall tape applicator includes a gated protrusion for feeding a dry wall tape through a ridged slot and to be held securely in position by a user before dipping the dry wall tape in a joint compound container to coat the dry wall tape with the joint compound on both side of the dry wall tape. The user then pulls the dry wall tape through the gated protrusion and the ridged slot to obtain a uniformly dual side coated drywall tape ready to be placed on a joint and to be immediately smoothened with the smoothening blade attached to the dry wall tape applicator.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A drywall tape applicator device comprising:

a drywall tool including a handle, a base plate or a smoothening blade having a tape-feeding side and a joint-compound-smoothening side, the drywall tool in operable use with the drywall tape applicator device;
and
a drywall tape guide removably coupled to the tape-feeding side of the base plate or the smoothening blade and disposed in a perpendicular relationship to the tape-feeding side of the base plate or the smoothening blade between the base plate or the smoothening blade and a thumb support, the drywall tape guide comprising:
a tape-feeder slot formed within a frontward side and through a rearward-side of the drywall tape guide;
and
a pair of tape-pulling protrusions, each extending from the frontward side towards the base plate or the smoothening blade of the drywall tool, the pair of tape-pulling protrusions disposed one on top of another with the tape-feeder slot disposed between each of the pair of tape-pulling protrusions;
wherein the drywall applicator device is operable independent of attachments.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/873,734Filed 17 Jan 2018
Published: US 2019/0218798 A118 Jul 2019
Granted: 15 Dec 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

E04F 21/026
For applying plasticised masses to surfaces, e.g. plastering walls: for applying adhesive or joint compound to joint tapes, in particular drywall…
E04F 21/163
Trowels: with exchangeable blades
E04F 21/1652
For finishing joints, e.g. implements for raking or filling joints, jointers: for smoothing and shaping joint compound to a desired contour
E04F 21/1657
For finishing joints, e.g. implements for raking or filling joints, jointers: for applying tape to joints, e.g. drywall taper tools

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