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US 8,523,033 B2Granted
Tape cutter
OwnerMikio Takejiinventor
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Abstract
A tape cutter may include a tape-sticking portion separated from a blade and configured to slide in the up-and-down direction, and a pair of arm-like edge guards arranged at opposite sides of the blade and configured to be opened/closed while interlocking with up/down motion of the tape-sticking portion, and a rear holder holds the tape-sticking portion to be slidable and the edge guards to be rotatable, and a connection portion for interlocking the tape-sticking portion with the pair of arm-like edge guards is arranged to be located between the rotational centers of the pair of arm-like edge guards.
Claims2
A tape cutter comprising:
- a tape-sticking portion separated from a blade and configured to slide in the up-and-down direction;
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- a pair of arm-like edge guards arranged at opposite sides of the blade and configured to be opened away from each other and closed toward each other while interlocking with the up-and-down motion of the tape-sticking portion;
- wherein a rear holder holds the tape-sticking portion to be slidable and the edge guards to be rotatable, and
- wherein a connection portion for interlocking the tape-sticking portion with the pair of arm-like edge guards is arranged to be located between the rotational centers of the pair of arm-like edge guards, such that the guards are opened when the sticking portion is raised and the guards are closed on top of the sticking portion when the sticking portion is lowered.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.