Binding tape and a mechanism for dispensing the same
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsEugene A. Rogalski, JR., Timothy Kelley
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Abstract
Embodiments described herein include a binding tape, binding tape dispenser, and a binding system. The binding tape is continuously formed with a flexible substrate and an adhesive disposed on a surface of the substrate. The binding tape dispenser can hold the binding tape and can be used by the binding system to bind objects using the binding tape held by the binding tape dispenser. The binding system pulls the binding tape from the binding tape dispenser and cuts the binding tape to size based on the size of the objects to be bound.
Claims17
A binding tape dispenser comprising:
- a continuously formed binding tape having a flexible substrate with a thermally activated adhesive disposed thereon;
- and
- a dispensing mechanism on which the binding tape is held, the dispensing mechanism being rotatable, the binding tape being unwound and dispensed intact, without any delamination thereof, from the binding tape dispenser when the binding tape is pulled from the binding tape dispenser.
A bookbinding system comprising:
- an extracting mechanism for pulling a binding tape from a binding tape dispenser, the binding tape having a substrate on which a thermally activated adhesive is disposed;
- and
- a severing mechanism for severing the binding tape at a desired length based on objects to be bound.
A binding tape comprising:
- a continuously formed flexible substrate;
- a thermally activated adhesive disposed on a surface of the substrate;
- and
- at least one demarcation disposed on the binding tape, the at least one demarcation identifying a location at which the binding tape is to be cut.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.