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US 5,293,999 AGranted
Dispenser for padded tape handles
AssigneeMinnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
InventorLeslie E. Linngren
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Abstract
Disclosed is a dispenser for padded tape handles.
Claims8
A dispenser for a pad for reciprocally releasably adhered tape handles extending from an uppermost tape handle to a lower most tape handle, each of the handles having an intermediate non-adhesive portion and pressure sensitive adhesive coated end portions on either side thereof, comprising:
- (a) a body having a pair of aligned, opposing laterally spaced surfaces, each of said laterally spaced surfaces for receipt of one of the pressure sensitive adhesive coated end portions of the lowermost tape handle in the pad of tape handles to secure the pad of tape handles to the dispenser, with the intermediate non-adhesive portion of the tape handles in the pad extending to form a loop for manual engagement to facilitate sequential dispensing of individual tape handles form the pad;
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- (b) a segment of target tape applied to said opposing aligned laterally spaced surfaces for controlling the strength of adhesion of the lowermost tape handle of the pad that is applied to said opposing laterally spaced surfaces.
A dispenser, comprising:
- (a) a body having a pair of aligned, opposing laterally spaced surfaces;
- (b) said body of the dispenser further including a cover hingedly connected to an end of said base, wherein said cover may be shifted between a first, closed position parallel to and spaced from said base, and a second, open position aligned with said base;
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- (c) a pad of reciprocally adhered tape handles extending from an uppermost tape handle to a lowermost tape handle in the pad, each tape handle including an intermediate non-adhesive portion and pressure sensitive adhesive coated end portions on either side thereof, said pressure sensitive adhesive end portions of said lowermost tape handle in said pad each being adhered to one of said opposing, parallel, laterally spaced surfaces of said dispenser body, with the intermediate non-adhesive portions of the pad of tape handle being retracted when said cover is in said first, closed position and extendable to form a loop when said cover is shifted to said second, open position, said loop adapted to facilitate manual engagement to grasp and sequentially dispense individual tape handles from the pad.
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In combination:
- (a) a dispenser having base including a pair of opposing, laterally spaced side plates extending from said base, said side plates such having an opposing aligned laterally spaced inner surface;
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- (b) a pad of a plurality of releasably reciprocally adhered tape handles extending from an uppermost to a lowermost tape handle in said pad, each tape handle including an intermediate non-adhesive portion and pressure sensitive adhesive coated end portions on either side thereof, said pressure sensitive adhesive end portions each being adhered to one of said opposing, laterally spaced inner surfaces of said side plates, with said intermediate non-adhesive portions of said tape handles of said pad extending to form a loop adapted to facilitate manual engagement and sequentially dispensing of individual tape handles from said pad.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.