Patent ID: 11130150

Abstract:
An electrically powered handheld dispensing device used to dispense viscous materials from a cartridge in a drip-free manner. The dispensing device having a cartridge locking mechanism that affirmatively locks a material cartridge in place, limiting its axial motion in the cartridge holder. The dispensing device having a plunger assembly containing dogs that bite into the inner surface of the material cartridge piston after a plunger makes contact with the material cartridge piston. The dispensing device having a motor control circuit that automatically reverses the drive motor at high speed to reverse the piston inside the material cartridge to a predetermined distance when the user releases the trigger control, which may also suck material back from the cartridge nozzle tip preventing drips. A manually operated gear-release mechanism disengages the plunger assembly from the gear drive transmission, enabling rapid movement of the plunger in either direction for the loading or unloading of full or partially expended material cartridges.