Patent ID: 7520408

Claim:
An apparatus providing a dripless hot glue gun, the gun being useful with a glue stick, comprising: a) a gun housing being shaped substantially as a gun having a barrel portion and a handle portion, said handle portion being disposed on said housing for being grasped by a hand of a user, said barrel portion having front and rear ends being disposed longitudinally in said gun housing, a trigger being disposed on said handle being operable by the hand of the user pressing on said trigger; b) a glue cartridge having front and rear ends and a bore therein being slidably disposed in said barrel portion for containing the glue stick in said bore for providing a source of glue; c) a dripless tip disposed on said front end of said barrel portion, wherein said tip has a closed position for containing the glue in said glue cartridge and an open position for allowing the glue to pass through said tip; d) a heating element being disposed in operative connection with said tip for melting the glue stick, wherein said heating element is activated when said trigger in pressed by the user; e) means for advancing said glue cartridge whereby the front end of the glue cartridge is moved toward the tip and the tip is thereby moved to the open position when the trigger is pressed by the user; f) means for retracting said glue cartridge whereby the front end of the glue cartridge is moved away from the tip when the trigger is released by the user; g) means for closing said tip whereby the tip is moved to the closed position when the glue cartridge is moved away from the tip when the trigger is released by the user; h) a power source for supplying energy to said heating element when said heating element is activated; and i) wherein said tip is cone shaped being cleaved longitudinally so as to form first and second halves, wherein said halves are contiguous to each other when said tip is in said closed position, wherein said halves are separated when said tip is in said open position.