Patent ID: 7175062
Filing Date: 2007-02-13
Classification: B65H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A tape dispenser for dispensing rolled adhesive tape mounted on a hub, where the hub comprises at least an outer cylindrical wall onto which the adhesive tape is spirally wound, and where the adhesive tape is at least as wide as the hub; said tape dispenser comprising: a first side member, a second side member, and a cutter member; wherein each of said first and second side members has a first major side portion which overlies a roll of adhesive tape within said tape dispenser, and a second minor side portion at an end thereof remote from said first major side portion; wherein said cutter member is mounted between said second minor side portions of said first and second side members; each of said first and second side members having a respective first and second cylindrical axle portion formed centrally on the inside surface of the first major side portion thereof, wherein the outer diameter of a first one of said first and second cylindrical axle portions is less than the inner diameter of the second one of said first and second cylindrical axle portions, so that said first one of said cylindrical axle portions is telescopically received in said second one of said cylindrical axle portions, and said telescopically joined first and second cylindrical axle portions have a common cylindrical axis; wherein the outer diameter of said second one of said cylindrical axle portions is less than the inner diameter of said tape hub, so that said tape hub is slidably and rotatably received thereon; and wherein at least said first major side portion of at least one of said first and second side members is formed of a flexible plastics material so that, when said flexible first major side portion is pressed using finger pressure in a direction parallel to said common cylindrical axis of said telescopically joined first and second axle portions, said first one of said cylindrical axle portions extends further into said second one of said cylindrical axle portions until there is interference between the sides of said tape hub together with the adhesive tape spirally wound thereon, and at least portions of the inner surfaces of the first major side portions of said first and second side members.