Adhesive film applicator

A device for applying an adhesive film to a substrate, comprising:

• a housing;
• a supply spool of a strip of a carrier tape provided with said adhesive film on one side of said tape such that said film is more readily adherent to said substrate than to said tape;
• take-up means in said housing forming a coil of said tape from which said adhesive film is removed by adhesion to said substrate during passage from said supply spool to said take-up means;
• drive means coupling said supply spool with said take-up means and including a slip clutch for rotating said take-up means upon rotation of said supply spool at a rate maintaining said tape taut between said supply spool and said takeup means;
• an applicator member around which said tape passes between said spool and said takeup means and engaged by an opposite side of said tape;
• mounting means for elastically mounting said applicator member on said housing so that said applicator member resiliently presses said tape with said adhesive film thereon against said substrate whereby said adhesive film is peeled off said tape to adhere to said substrate as said tape passes across said member to said coil;
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• a pair of slide runners flanking said applicator member, lying in respective planes perpendicular to said substrate and elastically biased against said substrate.