Patent ID: 7334620

Claim:
An adhesive tape cutter for attaching, to an object, adhesive tape drawn from a wound body of adhesive tape made by winding the tape, one side of which is an adhesive surface, in a roll, the adhesive tape cutter comprising: a support member located at one end of a main bracket to support the wound body of adhesive tape in such a manner that the wound body of adhesive tape can rotate; a cutting member located at the other end of the main bracket to cut the adhesive tape drawn from the wound body of adhesive tape supported by the support member; an overlapping-area-forming mechanism located between the support member and the cutting member to form an overlapping area of the adhesive tape, along at least one margin in its lengthwise direction, said overlapping area made by folding under a margin of a specified width of the adhesive tape toward the adhesive surface side; and a pressing member located downstream of the cutting member to press a non-adhesive surface of the adhesive tape that is cut by the cutting member and then attached to the object; wherein the overlapping-area-forming mechanism comprises: a fold-starting member that is located near an adhesive tape unwinding position of the wound body of adhesive tape, supports the non-adhesive surface of the adhesive tape, supports the adhesive surface of the adhesive tape except for a specified folding width along the margin of the adhesive tape, and folds the folding width area; a main folding member that is located downstream of the fold-starting member and folds under, at an acute angle, the area of the adhesive tape folded by the fold-starting member; and an attaching member that is located downstream of the main folding member, supports the non-adhesive surface of the adhesive tape, and presses and attaches the area folded under by the main folding member to the adhesive surface of the adhesive tape.