Patent ID: 6233910
Filing Date: 2001-05-22
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
A binding machine, comprising:a machine frame;roller means disposed in said machine frame, tape being pullable out of a tape roll and being caused to travel in a direction parallel to a front surface of the machine frame by said roller means to bind a material to be bound, said roller means respectively having axes perpendicular to the front surface of the machine frame;a door provided on a side surface of the machine frame and being opened or closed by rotating around a predetermined axis of rotation; andtape roll supporting means for supporting the tape roll on a reverse surface of the door in a state where a center line of the tape roll is perpendicular to the reverse surface of the door, the center line of the tape roll being made parallel to the axes of the roller means by opening the door, when the binding machine is used, to enter a state where the door is parallel to the front surface of the machine frame, whereinthe tape roll supporting means comprisesa plate mounted on the door so as to be integrally rotatable therewith, opposed to the reverse surface of the door with predetermined spacing, and defining a containing space containing the tape roll between the plate and the reverse surface of the door, andholding means for holding the tape roll in the containing space and for slidably receiving a peripheral surface of the tape roll, the holding means being displaceable to a use position where the tape roll is received in a state where the tape is allowed to be pulled out of the tape roll, and a tape roll replacement position where at least a part of the tape roll is projected outward from the containing space to make the tape roll attachable or detachable.