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US 9,670,028 B1Granted
Trigger operated brake for handheld tape dispenser including a barbed spool holder
OwnerPhilo Jefferson Pintoinventor
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Abstract
A handheld dispenser of pressure sensitive adhesive tape comprising a handle and a rotating spool holder including a brake plate and holding a roll of pressure sensitive adhesive tape on the tape spool holder, and a cutting blade, an idler pulley, and a finger activated trigger stopping the motion of the tape supply reel by engaging the brake plate through actuating a lever coupling the brake plate and the trigger, thus stopping the dispensing of tape when the trigger is pressed by a finger.
Claims12
A handheld dispenser of pressure sensitive adhesive tape comprising:
- a handle, and
- a rotating spool holder including a brake plate, holding a roll of tape on the spool holder by a plurality of flexible retaining clips;
- a cutting blade;
- an idler pulley;
- and
- a trigger stopping the motion of the tape supply reel holder by engaging the brake plate through actuating a lever coupling the brake plate and the trigger, thus stopping the dispensing of tape when the trigger is pressed by a finger;
- wherein the brake plate interlocks with teeth disposed in the spool holder to prevent it from turning;
- and
- wherein the toothed brake plate engages a plurality of teeth disposed about an interior circumference of the rotating spool holder.
6 more elements
A tape dispenser comprising:
- a cogged spool holder rotating as tape is dispensed;
- a trigger coupled to a toothed brake plate such that when the trigger is actuated the toothed brake plate engagedly couples the cogged spool holder stopping the dispensing of tape, in which the toothed brake plate includes a raised portion having at least one tooth for engaging the cogged spool holder is disposed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.