Tape laying device and method
OwnerRussell D. Kaufinventor
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Abstract
A portable, hand manipulated device for laying flexible, stretchable and tearable plastic films and metal foil warning tapes, for example, in a trench in which an element of construction such as a telephone cable, a gas main, a water main, or the like, has been installed. The device enables the tapes to be positioned, during backfilling, along a side wall of the trench at any preselected depth in the trench and at a height above the level of the element of construction installed therein.
Claims6
A portable device for laying warning tape, and the like, in a trench containing a utility cable, conduit pipe, or the like, comprising an elongated body portion having handle means at the upper end thereof and tape guide means at the lower end thereof, said tape guide means being secured to one side of the body portion and extending outwardly therefrom, said body portion having a length such that a user can walk upright along an edge of a trench in which tape is being layed while gripping the handle means in one hand and maintaining the tape guide means at a desired level within the trench, and tape support means for holding a supply of tape in roll form to be layed in the trench, said tape support means being positioned on the body portion below the handle means thereof and extending outwardly therefrom on the same side as the tape guide means, said tape support means including tape roll retaining means which is adjustable laterally with relation to the body portion to enable rolls of tape of different widths to be supported on the tape support means.
A portable device for laying warning tape, and the like, comprising an elongated body portion having an upper tape support section and a lower tape guide section, said body portion having a length such that a user can walk upright along an edge of a trench in which tape is being layed while gripping the upper tape support section in one hand and maintaining the lower tape guide section at a desired level within the trench, tape support means secured to one side of the tape support section and extending outwardly therefrom, said tape support means including adjustable means to enable tapes of different widths to be supported thereon, tape guide means secured to one side of the tape guide section and extending outwardly therefrom on the same side of the body portion as the tape support means, and tape guide section adjusting means interconnecting the tape support section and the tape guide section of the body portion to enable the tape guide means on the tape guide section to be selectively adjusted in relation to the tape support section to facilitate positioning of tape along the side of a trench in which the tape is being layed.
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