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US 8,100,042 B2Granted
Adhesive tape canister
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorYun-Jing Chen
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Abstract
An adhesive tape canister includes a reel to mount a roll of adhesive tape. When the adhesive tape needs to be cut, a handle portion of the adhesive tape canister is pressed, a first blade is moved towards the second blade. The adhesive tape can be cut by the first blade and the second blade in response to the first blade moving to the second blade.
Claims4
An adhesive tape canister for holding a roll of adhesive tape, comprising:
- a reel to mount the adhesive tape roll;
- a pressing element comprising a first blade;
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- a supporting module comprising a second blade facing the first blade;
- wherein the reel is arranged on a first end of the supporting module, the pressing element is slidably mounted to a second end of the supporting module via an elastic element, the first blade is moved to the second blade to cut the adhesive tape pulled between the first and second blades in response to the pressing element being pressed;
- the supporting module comprises a first supporting element and a second supporting element, the elastic element comprises four springs, the first and second supporting elements each define two parallel slide grooves for accommodating the corresponding springs, the pressing element comprises a handle portion, two first actuators extending from opposite ends of a side of the handle portion, and two second actuators which are approximately parallel with the handle portion extending from distal ends of the first actuators, and wherein four latching portions extend from inner sides of ends of the second actuators, and are slidably accommodated in the corresponding slide grooves and resisting against the corresponding springs.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.