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US 4,267,949 AGranted
Device for separating tape portions from a tape of flexible material
AssigneeEsselte Pendaflex Corporation
InventorSven A. Hemgren
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AssigneeEsselte Pendaflex Corporation
InventorSven A. Hemgren
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The invention concerns a device for separating tape portions of mutually equal length from a tape of flexible material. Said tape is provided with a plurality of slots spaced at mutually equal distances, said slots extending obliquely relative to the longitudinal direction of the tape substantially over the whole width thereof, so that short unslotted edge portions are left at each tape edge. Said tape passes through a guide channel along a first bottom portion thereof and over a steplike ledge at its end and below an adjacent elongated member which resiliently presses said tape into engagement with a subsequent second bottom portion of the guide channel. Said elongated member and said second bottom portion end at a distance from one sidewall of said guide channel and when the tape is pulled forth in the guide channel with its trailing unslotted edge portions along said sidewall, the tape tab defined by the foremost slot and extending against the pulling direction is moved to a position at the side of said second bottom portion and is displaced downwards below said bottom portion, so that the corresponding unslotted edge portion is torn off and the opposite unslotted edge portion thereafter is ruptured.
A device for separating tape portions of mutually equal length from a tape of flexible material, for instance a tape of queue tickets, characterized in that the device comprises a guide channel having a first plane bottom portion, which at one end thereof over a steplike ledge, extending transversely over the whole width of said guide channel, passes over into a second bottom portion provided with an obliquely cut away portion at one side of said guide channel, whereby said tape, which is provided with a plurality of slots, spaced at mutually alike distances from each other and extending obliquely to the longitudinal direction of the tape over the main part of the width thereof, so that short unslotted edge portions are left at each tape edge, is pullable along said guide channel in engagement with said first bottom portion, the edge of said ledge and the second bottom portion and is pressed into abutment with said second bottom portion immediately adjacent said ledge by means of an elongated, resilient member, the trailing, unslotted edge portions of the tape thereby passing in over said cut away portion of the second bottom portion, so that the leading tape portion is separated from the tape, when the intermediate slot passes in over said cut away portion.
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