Adhesive tape applicator
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorJames F. Pitzen
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Abstract
A tape application apparatus is adapted for both left-handed and right-handed use when applying tape from a roll to a first surface. An edge of the first surface is common to an edge of an adjacent second surface. The tape application apparatus includes a housing and a tape hub attached to the housing that is capable of slidably receiving the roll. The housing has first and second exterior surfaces and first and second interior surfaces and is capable of receiving the roll. When the tape application apparatus is guided in a first direction, the roll is moveable to a first dispensing position against the first interior side surface, and when the tape application apparatus is guided in a second direction opposite the first direction, the roll is moveable to a second dispensing position against the second interior side surface.
Claims13
A tape application apparatus adapted for both left-handed and right-handed use when applying tape from a roll to a first surface, wherein an edge of the first surface is common to an edge of an adjacent second surface, the tape application apparatus comprising:
- a housing having first and second exterior side surfaces and first and second interior side surfaces, and the housing being adapted to receive the roll;
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- a tape hub attached between the first and second exterior side surfaces of the housing and capable of slidably receiving the roll, wherein when the tape application apparatus is guided in a first direction, the roll is moveable to a first dispensing position against the first interior side surface such that an edge of tape dispensed from the tape application apparatus is co-linear with the edge of the first surface, and
- wherein when the tape application apparatus is guided in a second direction opposite the first direction, the roll is moveable to a second dispensing position against the second interior side surface such that an edge of tape dispensed from the tape application apparatus is co-linear with the edge of the first surface.
A tape dispenser for applying a strip of tape from a roll onto a first surface wherein an edge of the first surface is common to an edge of a second adjacent surface, wherein the roll has a first width, and wherein the strip of tape has first and second side edges, the tape dispenser comprising:
- a frame adapted to receive the roll, the frame having a first tape dispensing edge on a first side thereof and a second tape dispensing edge on a second side thereof;
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- a tape hub attached between the first and second sides of the frame, the tape hub having a second width that is greater than the first width of the roll and being formed to slidably receive the roll thereon,
- wherein the roll is slidable between a first dispensing position on a first side of the tape hub, wherein when in the first dispensing position, the first side edge of the strip of tape being dispensed from the roll is co-linear with the first dispensing edge of the first side of the frame and co-linear with the edge of the first surface, and a second dispensing position on a second side of the tape hub, wherein when in the second dispensing position, the second side edge of the strip of tape being dispensed from the roll is co-linear with the second dispensing edge of the second side of the frame and co-linear with the edge of the first surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.