Computer paper edge strip remover
OwnerKevin D. Taylorinventor
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Abstract
Devices and associated methods for removing scored edge strips from computer printout sheets. A base member of one device carries an open ended, outwardly opening, channel through which the edge strips and sheets are pulled together to separate the strips by drawing the score line against a tearing plate outstanding centrally within the channel. The tearing plate includes a blunt V-shaped portion to facilitate tearing. The device may be employed to simultaneously remove the edge strips from a single sheet or from a stack of several.
Claims7
An edge strip removing device for manually removing edge drive strips from sheets of flexible paper, the strips each being connected to said sheets through a line weakened for tearing therealong, said device comprising:
- an elongate body member symmetrical about a vertical plane of symmetry, having an inwardly facing side and an outwardly facing side, and an outwardly opening channel formed on the outwardly facing side and symmetrical about said vertical plane of symmetry, said channel, extending the full length of the body member and having a generally flat outwardly facing bottom joined by a pair of spaced apart channel sidewall structures each having an inner side facing into the channel, said channel having an uppermost and a lowermost open end;
- a tearing plate member symmetrical about said vertical plane of symmetry, having an uppermost portion thereof secured to an uppermost portion of the channel bottom and outstanding therefrom, and a cantilevered portion downwardly extending from said uppermost portion thereof, said cantilevered portion having an a substantially inwardly facing tearing edge sloping outwardly and downwardly from a juncture thereof with the channel bottom, said tearing edge being rounded, and blunt so that the edge strips are torn and not cut from said sheets of flexible paper along said weakened line when said line is pulled thereagainst;
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- means for securing said inwardly facing side of the body to a vertical mounting surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.