Patent ID: 11927021
Assignee: ÉTABLISSEMENTS PIERRE GRÉHAL ET CIE SA
Field: Civil engineering (Other fields)
Classification: CPC E | IPC E

Claim 0:
1. An applicator (1) of jointing tape for joining two sheets of plasterboard, the applicator comprising a payout device (2) for paying out a jointing tape from a roll (3) and a mud chamber (4) through which the tape is paid out in use, the chamber having, with reference to the use position, a tape inlet slot (6) formed between a free end (7a) of a rear wall (7) of the chamber and a first free end (8a) of a lower wall (8) of the chamber, and a tape outlet slot (9) formed between a free end (10a) of a frontal wall (10) of the chamber and a second free end (8b) of the lower wall (8) of the chamber, the latter also comprising two side walls (11-12), one of which constitutes a removable side cover for accessing the inside of the chamber, characterized in that the free end (7a) of the rear wall (7) of the chamber and the first free end (8a) of the lower wall (8) of the chamber comprise a cylinder (7a1-8a1) with a cross section (D1) greater than a thickness (E1) of the wall to which each cylinder is attached, and in that each cylinder is covered by a removable protective sleeve (201-202) with an interior cross section that complements the cylinder that the sleeve covers, each protective sleeve having a longitudinal opening (201a-202a) delimited by two immobilization edges (201b-202b) for immobilization against the wall bearing the cylinder that the sleeve covers.