Adhesive tape dispenser with tape alignment mechanism
AssigneeBlutaper, LLC
InventorsMichael F. Renkert, Kevin G. Shumway
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Abstract
An adhesive tape dispensing device with a tape alignment mechanism, comprising a body formed from a rigid material or materials, configured to hold and dispense adhesive tape, and a tape alignment mechanism comprising at least one spring that presses laterally against the edge of the tape, the side of the tape form, or against a hub onto which the tape is mounted, wherein one edge of the portion of tape being dispensed is kept in a fixed alignment relative to the dispensing device while it is being dispensed.
Claims17
An adhesive tape dispensing device with a tape alignment mechanism, comprising:
- a body formed from a rigid material or materials, configured to hold and dispense adhesive tape;
- and
- a tape alignment mechanism comprising at least one spring that presses laterally against the edge of the tape, the side of the tape form, or against a hub onto which the tape is mounted,
- wherein one edge of the portion of tape being dispensed is kept in a fixed alignment relative to the dispensing device while it is being dispensed.
An adhesive tape dispensing device with a tape alignment mechanism, comprising:
- a body formed from a rigid material or materials, configured to hold and dispense adhesive tape;
- and
- a tape alignment mechanism comprising a holder with a tapered shape onto which a roll of tape is placed,
- wherein, while the tape is being dispensed, and the roll of tape is held in a fixed alignment relative to the dispensing device due to a force pressing the inside edge of the roll of tape down against the holder with a tapered shape tending to push the roll of tape toward the narrow end of the holder with a tapered shape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.