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US 3,972,459 AGranted
Tape dispenser having snap lock core members
OwnerDaniel A. Cooperinventor
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Abstract
A tape dispenser comprising a front part including a cutting edge and two side parts including core members, respectively, the former being pivotally connected to the front part by living hinges. The core members include releasable snap locking parts for holding the core members together in a substantially parallel position of the two side parts.
Claims6
Tape dispenser, comprising
- a rectangular vertical oriented front part having an uppermost immoveable rigidly attached integral cutting edge and having elongated vertical lateral hinge edges extending integrally from said uppermost cutting edge.
- two side parts each including a core member, each of said side parts including an elongated front hinge edge of a length larger than and extending adjacent to the entire length of said lateral hinge edges and extending above said cutting edge of said front part, with said cutting edge therebetween and with said lateral hinge edges between, said front hinge edges of each of said side parts, respectively,
- hinge means constituting a flexible synthetic material for integrally pivotally connecting each of said front hinge edges of each of said side parts, respectively, to a different one of said lateral hinge edges of said front part, extending along the entire length of said lateral hinge edges including adjacent said cutting edge,
- said core members including releasable snap locking means for holding said core members together in a substantially parallel position of said two side parts, and
- said side parts each include a rear free end remote from said front hinge edge, said core members being located intermediate to said rear free ends of said side parts respectively and said front hinge edges respectively, said rear free ends of both of said side parts constituting in cooperation with said releasable snap locking means, a snap releasing means for releasing said core members from each other upon pressing of said rear free ends toward each other.
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