Hand held dispenser for laying a strip of flexible material under a seal, laying method therefor, and uses of said strip
OwnerPierre Bodininventor
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Abstract
A hand-held dispenser consisting of a dispensing tip to which a strip is fed from a container or a paying-out reel. A strip of flexible material may be laid under one lip of a linear or peripheral seal, and the lip may be held in a raised position when treating or spraying paint onto the area adjacent to and covered by the seal. The dispenser is particularly suitable for use by coachbuilders and vehicle repair shops.
Claims18
A method for inserting a strip of compressible material, having a non-compressed predetermined cross-sectional diametrical extent, beneath a perimeter seal member, interposed between two components and having a lip portion for engaging one of said two components, so as to permit a region of one of said two components, normally disposed beneath said seal member lip portion, to be spray painted in order to facilitate the continuity of the spray paint coating spray painted upon said one of said two components, comprising the steps of:
- raising said lip portion of said seal member away from said one of said two components which is normally engaged by said lip portion of said seal member so as to define a space between said lip portion of said seal member and said one of said two components normally engaged by said lip portion of said seal member;
- pre-compressing a leading end portion of said strip of compressible material by a dispensing means, such that the diametrical extent of said compressed leading end portion of said strip of compressible material is less than said non-compressed cross-sectional diametrical extent, prior to insertion of said leading end portion of said strip of compressible material into said space defined between said raised lip portion of said seal member and said one of said two components normally engaged by said lip portion of said seal member so as to facilitate insertion of said strip of compressible material into said space defined between said raised lip portion of said seal member and said one of said two components normally engaged by said lip portion of said seal member;
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- inserting said compressed leading end portion of said strip of compressible material into said space defined between said raised lip portion of said seal member and said one of said two components normally engaged by said lip portion of said seal member and permitting said compressed leading end portion of said strip of compressible material to expand toward said non-compressed cross-sectional diametrical extent so as to maintain said lip portion of said seal member in said raised state with respect to said one of said two components with which said lip portion of said seal member is normally engaged and thereby facilitate subsequent spray painting of a region of said one of said two components normally disposed beneath said lip portion of said seal member.
A hand-held dispenser for inserting a strip of compressible material, having a non-compressed predetermined cross-sectional diametrical extent, beneath a perimeter seal member interposed between two components and having a lip portion for normally engaging one of said two components, comprising:
- nozzle means having a dispensing end for insertion into a space defined between said lip portion of said seal member and said one of said two components normally engaged by said lip portion of said seal member when said lip portion of said seal member has been raised away from said one of said two components normally engaged by said lip portion of said seal member, and for maintaining said lip portion of said seal member in a raised state with respect to said one of said two components normally engaged by said lip portion of said seal member;
- means defined upon said dispensing end of said nozzle means for pre-compressing a leading end portion of said strip of compressible material, such that the cross-sectional diametrical extent of said compressed leading end portion of said strip of compressible material is less than said non-compressed cross-sectional diametrical extent of said compressible material, prior to dispensing of said leading end portion of said compressible material out from said dispensing end of said nozzle means and into said space defined between said raised lip portion of said seal member and said one of said two components normally engaged by said lip portion of said seal member so as to facilitate insertion of said strip of compressible material into said space defined between said raised lip portion of said seal member and said one of said two components normally engaged by said lip portion of said seal member and subsequent expansion of said compressed leading end portion of said strip of compressible material back toward said non-compressed cross-sectional diametrical extent so as to maintain said lip portion of said seal member in said raised state with respect to said one of said two components which is normally engaged by said lip portion of said seal member;
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- handle means operatively connected to said nozzle means for moving said nozzle means of said dispenser along said raised lip portion of said seal member and within said space defined between said raised lip portion of said seal member and said one of said two components normally engaged by said lip portion of said seal member so as to further dispense additional amounts of said strip of compressible material from said nozzle means of said dispenser.
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