Gang tape dispenser
OwnerWalter A. Plummer, IIIinventor
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Abstract
A gang tape dispenser for a multiplicity of dissimilar rolls of pressure sensitive tape selectively usable at the user's option. Each roll may bear a roll of distinctive symbols dissimilar from those on the other rolls enabling the user to employ strips alone or in any of a profusion of combinations for coding and identifying and the like purposes. The tape rolls are housed in aligned storage cells having dispensing ports facing a common severing blade. The dispenser can be bench mounted or suspended on a workman's belt.
Claims13
A gang tape dispenser for dispensing any one of a multiplicity of rolls of gummed tape, comprising;
- an elongated hollow main body having the interior thereof divided into a row of side-by-side cells each adapted to store and retain a single roll of gummed tape;
- a tape dispensing port in the front wall of said main body for each tape storing cell;
- means for holding the free end of each tape captive and including a severing blade common to all of said rolls of tapes for severing addispensed length of tape from any selected one of said multiplicity of tape storing cells;
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- suspension means for suspending said dispenser from a belt secured about a workman comprising U-shaped spring wire clip means having the end portions of the legs thereof lying generally normal to a plane through the remainder of said legs, said end portions being deformed to form detents engageable with the interior of said main body to hold said clip assembled thereto.
A gang tape dispenser comprising:
- an elongated one-piece plastic housing sub-divided crosswise thereof into a multiplicity of spaced apart tape roll storage cells by partitions integral with said housing each having notch means in one edge for rotatably supporting a shaft-equipped roll of pressure sensitive tape in each of said cells each bearing a row of symbols differing from the symbols of other of said rolls of tape;
- common cover means closing an access opening in said housing for each of said storage cells and attached to said housing by an integral flexible plastic hinge of thinner cross-section than said housing and said cover means;
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- said one-piece housing including a unitary L-shaped ledge means integral therewith and spaced forwardly of said storage cells and provided with severing means for severing a dispensed length of tape from a tape roll stored in any one of said cells, said ledge means including retainer means for said tape severing means having an exposed surface positioned to be contacted by said pressure sensitive tape to hold the foremost end of each roll of tape captive until deliberately released.
A gang tape dispenser for dispensing tape from any one of a multiplicity of rolls of tape coated with pressure sensitive adhesive and mounted on shaft means projecting from either end of each roll, comprising:
- a one-piece elongated plastic housing subdivided crosswise thereof by parallel planar partitions to form a separate tape storage cell for each roll of tape, the mid-portion of the upper edge of said partitions being notched to seat one end of said shaft means, and said notches having ear means positioned and effective to hold said shaft means releasably captive when pressed therepast into the bottoms of said notches:
- said housing having an L-shaped ledge extending lengthwise thereof with one leg integral with one sidewall of said housing and with its other leg extending upwardly and outwardly from the outer end of said one leg;
- means securing a single tape severing blade along the upper edge of said other leg of said L-shaped ledge.
- the sidewall of said housing having a tape dispensing opening from each of said tape storage cells;
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- said housing including a cover overlying each of said tape storage cells and attached thereto by an integral hinge of thinner plastic than the plastic of said cover and housing.
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