Lightweight hand-held label applicator
OwnerNam Sik KIMinventor
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Abstract
A lightweight hand-held label applicator includes a plate, a guide channel, a flexible wiping lip, and a strip container. The plate has a supplying surface and a sliding surface, and the strip is supplied along the supplying surface toward an edge of the plate. The plate is constructed to allow easy grip by a user's fingers on the supplying surface and the sliding surface such that the strip is in contact with the sliding surface and pulled away from the edge of the plate by the user's finger. Preferably, the user's thumb holds the supplying surface or the guide channel, and the user's index or middle finger holds the sliding surface and pulls the strip away from the edge of the plate.
Claims20
A lightweight hand-held label applicator for placing a strip of labels and a backing strip, separating the labels from the backing strip, and applying the labels to items, the label applicator comprising:
- a plate having a supplying surface and a sliding surface wherein the strip is supplied along the supplying surface toward an edge of the plate, and wherein the plate is constructed to allow easy grip by a user's fingers on the supplying surface and the sliding surface such that the strip is in contact with the sliding surface and pulled away from the edge of the plate by the user's finger;
- a guide channel formed on the supplying surface to laterally guide a movement of the strip;
- a flexible wiping lip attached to an edge of the guide channel;
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- a strip container formed on or attached to the supplying surface for storing the strip.
A lightweight hand-held label applicator for placing a strip of labels and a backing strip, separating the labels from the backing strip, and applying the labels to items, the label applicator comprising:
- a plate having a supplying surface and a sliding surface wherein the supplying surface and the sliding surface are flat, disposed on opposite sides of the plate, and parallel to each other such that the strip is supplied along the supplying surface toward an edge of the plate, and the backing strip is in contact with the sliding surface and pulled away from the edge of the plate by a finger of a user;
- a guide channel formed on the supplying surface to laterally guide a movement of the strip;
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- a flexible wiping lip attached to an edge of the guide channel,
- wherein the plate is sized to allow the user to grip both of the supplying surface and the sliding surface by fingers of a hand of the user.
A lightweight hand-held label applicator for placing a strip of labels and a backing strip, separating the labels from the backing strip, and applying the labels to items, the label applicator comprising:
- a plate having a supplying surface and a bottom surface wherein the strip is supplied along the supplying surface toward an edge of the plate and the strip is pulled backward below the bottom surface;
- a guide channel formed on the supplying surface to laterally guide a movement of the strip;
- a flexible wiping lip attached to an edge of the guide channel;
- a strip container formed on or attached to the supplying surface for storing the strip;
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- an item contact roller and an idler roller located below the bottom surface,
- wherein the strip passes through in between the item contact roller and the idler roller,
- wherein the item contact roller is located slightly below the idler roller such that the item contact roller contacts and rolls on a surface of the item to pull the strip.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.