Patent ID: 6382291
Filing Date: 2002-05-07
Classification: B65H,Y10T

Abstract:
A device for separating and dispensing stick-on material from a roll of backing tape to which the stick-on material is adhered, comprising:an elongated tape guide member having front and rear ends and upper and lower surfaces, an empty-tape chamber at the rear end of the guide member, a holding chamber for a roll of backing tape to which stick-on material is adhered located adjacent to the upper surface of the guide member rearwardly of the front end, and a resiliently compressible roller mounted in fixed spaced relation to the guide member in frictional rollable engagement with the lower surface of the guide member rearwardly of the front end when the tape is not present and being maintained in said rollable engagement with the guide member by said mounting when the tape is not present.