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.
Claims19
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) an elongated dowel engaged with a wide filling end of a material bag containing a viscous flowable material to urge such a material from a dispensing end of such a bag;
- (b) a lever engaged with the dowel to facilitate rolling such a material bag onto the dowel;
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- (c) a ratchet mechanism engaged between the lever and the dowel to facilitate rolling a material bag onto the dowel.
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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;
- (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 lever radially engaged with the dowel to facilitate rolling the bag onto the dowel.
A flowable masonry composition dispensing apparatus for selectively dispensing a narrow bead of a 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;
- (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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- (c) a lever radially engaged with the dowel to facilitate rolling the bag onto the dowel.
A method of applying a narrow bead of a viscous flowable masonry material comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a material bag adapted containing the viscous flowable masonry material 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 lever 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 lever to urge a flowable material from within the bag through the dispensing end thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.