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US 3,971,280 AGranted
Tape dispenser
AssigneeCrane Packing Limited
InventorEgons Inka
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Abstract
A tape container and dispensing apparatus formed of plastic material including means for advancing the tape to dispense a strip of any desired length and integrally formed shearing means to provide scissors-like shearing action to sever the tape strip.
Claims10
A dispenser for shearable material comprising:
- a chamber defining housing for receiving a quantity of material in the form of a rolled strip, said housing including means defining an opening to allow egress of the material from the chamber;
- advancement means operable to advance the strip of material out of said chamber through the opening;
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- a shearing mechanism integrally formed on said housing said shearing mechanism including a pair of sharp shearing edge surfaces disposed to receive the strip material therebetween and being movable to produce point contact between said sharp shearing edge surfaces progressively thereacross to effect shearing of the interposed strip of material.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.