EP0702627B1 - Correction tape dispenser - Google Patents

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EP0702627B1
EP0702627B1 EP94920158A EP94920158A EP0702627B1 EP 0702627 B1 EP0702627 B1 EP 0702627B1 EP 94920158 A EP94920158 A EP 94920158A EP 94920158 A EP94920158 A EP 94920158A EP 0702627 B1 EP0702627 B1 EP 0702627B1
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tip
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tape
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Christopher John Stevens
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Berol Corp
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J29/00—Details of, or accessories for, typewriters or selective printing mechanisms not otherwise provided for
    • B41J29/26—Devices, non-fluid media or methods for cancelling, correcting errors, underscoring or ruling
    • B41J29/36—Devices, non-fluid media or methods for cancelling, correcting errors, underscoring or ruling for cancelling or correcting errors by overprinting
    • B41J29/367—Devices, non-fluid media or methods for cancelling, correcting errors, underscoring or ruling for cancelling or correcting errors by overprinting sheet media carrying a pigmented transferable correction layer
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H37/00—Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating devices for performing specified auxiliary operations
    • B65H37/002—Web delivery apparatus, the web serving as support for articles, material or another web
    • B65H37/005—Hand-held apparatus
    • B65H37/007—Applicators for applying coatings, e.g. correction, colour or adhesive coatings
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2402/00—Constructional details of the handling apparatus
    • B65H2402/60—Coupling, adapter or locking means

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  • This invention relates to a correction tape dispenser for laying down a strip or band of correction composition onto a surface, most usually paper, e.g. to cover markings thereon to facilitate the correction of a mistake.
  • correction tape dispensers which have supply and take-up spools for the tape mounted within a case to rotate about parallel axes with the supply spool being coupled to drive the take up spool through a slipping clutch arrangement.
  • the case may be adapted to be held directly in the hand of the user, or it may form a cartridge which is inserted into a re-usable outer housing.
  • a length of tape extending between the spools is guided to pass out of the casing and around an applicator head or tip having a relatively sharp edge which is used to press the tape against the surface onto which the correction strip is to be applied.
  • the tape consists of a ribbon, e.g.
  • the device In use, the device is held in the hand and the tip is pressed down onto the paper surface so that its edge presses the tape against the surface across the full width of the tape.
  • the correction composition has an adhesive quality and has greater adhesion to the paper than to its carrier ribbon, so that when the tip is displaced across the paper surface in a direction perpendicular to the tip edge, the tip slides with respect to the ribbon causing tape to be drawn off the supply spool.
  • the known correction tape dispensers operate satisfactorily as far as laying down the correction strip is concerned. However, they do require some practice to ensure that the tip edge is applied correctly against the paper, and the necessary orientation of the tip is maintained throughout the entire stroke of the tip across the paper surface. In particular, the tip edge must at all times lie flat against the paper surface for pressing the tape substantially uniformly against the paper across the full width of the tape.
  • the applicator tip is substantially rigid with the dispenser body so that the user must hold the dispenser and maintain it at a precise orientation with respect to the paper in the course of laying down a strip of the correction composition. This drawback is exacerbated by the fact that the dispensers are generally arranged so that they must be held in an unnatural attitude relative to the paper due to the configuration and orientation of the body having regard to the direction of the tip edge.
  • U.S. Patent No. 5,049,229 directed to an applicator for adhesive film, discloses an applicator tip pin connected near the application edge and pivotable within the body of the applicator.
  • U.S. Patent No. 4,601,775 directed to a composite tape laying machine, discloses a tape laydown shoe with shoe members supported from an axle by ball joint connections permitting a rotational degree of freedom for adjusting the shoe members to changing contour surfaces.
  • a correction tape dispenser including a body, an applicator tip with an edge for pressing the tape against a surface, and a support connecting said applicator tip to said body, characterized in that said support and said tip are connected by complementary mating arcuate bearing surfaces, having a common axis spaced from said arcuate bearing surfaces in the direction of said edge, to provide rocking movement of the tip relative to the support about the axis.
  • the present invention aims to alleviate the drawback explained above and provides a correction tape dispenser having an applicator tip with an edge for pressing the tape against a surface, wherein the tip comprises a part connected to a supporting member by means permitting rocking pivotal movement of the tip about an axis extending transversely of the tip and crossing the tip edge at least in close proximity thereto.
  • the tip With the axis of the tip movement in close proximity to the edge, that is intersecting or very nearly intersecting the edge, an effective self-alignment between the tape edge and the paper can be achieved, thereby making it easier to ensure that the edge is not only initially applied flat against the paper surface, but is also maintained in this flat orientation when stroking the tip along the paper surface as the axis of the tip movement lies substantially in the plane of the paper.
  • the axis is preferably substantially perpendicular to the direction of the tip edge, i.e. generally aligned with the direction in which the tip is moved in use, and in a specific embodiment the pivot axis intersects the edge at a point substantially midway along it.
  • the tip is journalled for pivot movement by a shell bearing, but other forms of pivot are possible.
  • the correction tape dispenser shown in the drawings has a casing or body 1 in which are housed tape supply and take-up spools 2 and 3.
  • the spools are rotatable about their respective parallel axes and as well known in the art are coupled by a slipping drive mechanism, as illustrated in the form of pulleys 4, 5 around which a drive belt 6 is trained, so that rotation of the supply spool 2 in response to tape 8 being drawn therefrom causes the take-up
  • the axis is preferably substantially spool 3 to rotate to reel in the tape to prevent the tape becoming slack between the spools.
  • the tape 8 itself can be conventional having a layer of correction composition coating one side of a carrier ribbon.
  • a tip assembly consisting of a tip supporting member 9 and a separate part 10 forming the tip itself.
  • a tip supporting member 9 Provided on the member 9 are tape guiding rollers or pegs 12 around which the tape is guided in passing to and from the tip 10, thereby enabling the dispenser body to be held at a more usual writing angle with respect to the paper in use of the dispenser.
  • the tip 10 defines the tape application edge 15 around which the tape 8 passes and by means of which the tape is pressed against the paper surface for transferring a strip of correction composition from the carrier ribbon onto the paper.
  • a pair of guide wings 16 is provided on either side of the tip to assist in guiding the tape with respect to the edge 15, and to maintain the tape in correct cooperation with the edge during use.
  • the portion of the tip directed away from the edge is bifurcated to define a slot 18 which is coplanar with the edge 15 and in which is received a flat tongue formed by the end portion of the support member 9.
  • the free end edge of the tongue has a part-cylindrical bearing surface 19 which matches a complementary bearing surface 20 defined by the bottom end wall of the slot 18.
  • the bearing surfaces are centred on an axis P which bisects the line of the edge 15.
  • the bearing surface together define a shell bearing enabling fee pivotal movement of the tip 10 relative to the support member, and hence the body of the dispenser, about the axis P.
  • the bearing surfaces are provided with stop faces 21, 22 which come into abutment to limit the pivotal movement of the tip, as depicted in Figures 5B and 5C which show the two extreme pivotal positions.
  • the allowed pivotal movement may be a few degrees e.g. 3° - 5° to either side of the normal central position illustrated in Figure 5A, but could be made larger say up to 10° either side if required.
  • the dispenser body is held approximately in the correct orientation when the tip is applied to the paper surface, the tip edge will align itself automatically to be flat against the surface, with the tape 8 being interposed between the tip edge and the paper.
  • the pressure exerted through the tip causes the correction composition to adhere to the paper surface while the tip slides along the tape ribbons causing fresh tape to be drawn from the supply spool 2 and laid down immediately in front of the moving tip.
  • the ribbon over which the tip has passed is drawn back into the body and reeled up on the take-up spools having left the correction composition previously carried thereby on the paper.

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  • Adhesive Tape Dispensing Devices (AREA)
  • Internal Circuitry In Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Devices (AREA)
  • Manufacturing Of Electric Cables (AREA)
  • Power Steering Mechanism (AREA)
  • Pens And Brushes (AREA)
  • Coating Apparatus (AREA)
EP94920158A 1993-06-17 1994-06-08 Correction tape dispenser Expired - Lifetime EP0702627B1 (en)

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GB939312520A GB9312520D0 (en) 1993-06-17 1993-06-17 Correction tape dispenser
GB9312520 1993-06-17
PCT/US1994/006585 WO1995000334A1 (en) 1993-06-17 1994-06-08 Correction tape dispenser

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EP0702627A1 EP0702627A1 (en) 1996-03-27
EP0702627A4 EP0702627A4 (en) 1997-07-16
EP0702627B1 true EP0702627B1 (en) 2001-08-16

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JP (1) JP3476015B2 (pl)
CN (1) CN1066680C (pl)
AU (1) AU688774B2 (pl)
BR (1) BR9406837A (pl)
CA (1) CA2165316C (pl)
DE (1) DE69427976T2 (pl)
GB (1) GB9312520D0 (pl)
HU (1) HU218434B (pl)
PL (1) PL176809B1 (pl)
RU (1) RU2115560C1 (pl)
WO (1) WO1995000334A1 (pl)

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GB9312520D0 (en) 1993-08-04
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AU688774B2 (en) 1998-03-19
BR9406837A (pt) 1996-04-16
AU7105394A (en) 1995-01-17
PL317074A1 (en) 1997-03-03
RU2115560C1 (ru) 1998-07-20
HU9503551D0 (en) 1996-02-28
CA2165316C (en) 1999-08-31
CA2165316A1 (en) 1995-01-05
CN1066680C (zh) 2001-06-06
HUT73191A (en) 1996-06-28
DE69427976D1 (de) 2001-09-20
JP3476015B2 (ja) 2003-12-10
PL176809B1 (pl) 1999-07-30
EP0702627A4 (en) 1997-07-16
HU218434B (hu) 2000-08-28
JPH08511998A (ja) 1996-12-17
EP0702627A1 (en) 1996-03-27
WO1995000334A1 (en) 1995-01-05

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