US20060191152A1

US20060191152A1 - Adhesive tape pedestal

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Publication number: US20060191152A1
Application number: US11/066,471
Authority: US
Inventors: Pei-Lin Huang
Original assignee: U Tai Inc
Current assignee: U-TAI Inc; U Tai Inc
Priority date: 2005-02-28
Filing date: 2005-02-28
Publication date: 2006-08-31

Abstract

An adhesive tape pedestal is equipped with a cyclometer associated with a visual window to indicated the length of tape that helps the user pull out just desired length of tape so as to preclude wasting of tape. Besides, the cyclometer can indicate the total length of tape contained in a roll when it is used up that helps the user check whether or not the actual length of tape is in comply with the nominal length.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the invention
The present invention relates to an improved structure for an adhesive tape pedestal , and in particular, to a tape pedestal which is associated with a cyclometer to indicate the used portion of the adhesive tape in a roll.
2. Description of the prior art
The adhesive tape is too-commonly used everywhere such as workshops, department stores, and private homes for packaging or fixing objects by adhering. It is consumed astonishingly a large amount in department stores during the season of bargain sales. Most of people have experienced that it is tedious to make packages or adhere something with the adhesive tape. First of all, the tip of a roll of tape must be found out, pull out the necessary length of tape, then restore the remained tape back properly. Next time the tape is to be used, the user has to looking for the tip of the tape again.
A somewhat convenient adhesive tape rolls with a tape pedestal have been on the market for a long time, either a handhold type or an on-table type. For example, a conventional handhold type is shown in FIG. 1. It includes a pedestal 8 with a serrated cutting blade 81 equipped in front of the tip of a tape roll. Behind both sides of the blade 81 are two supporting walls 82 each erected one side thereof. One of the supporting wall 82 is conjoined to a bobbin 83 around which the tape 5 is coiled. A roller 84 is sandwiched between the two supporting walls 82 and a transmission wheel 85 is provided on each side on the top ends of the walls 82 over the roller 84. A hood 86 for the tape roll is hinged to the rear of the walls 82. When using the tape 5 which is rolled around the bobbin 83, the tip of the tape 5 is pulled out and passed through the clearance between the roller 84 and the transmission wheel 85 to adhere the tape 5 onto the object 6 with a required length, the remaining portion is cut away with a serrated cutting blade 81. By doing so the user may feel better in handling the tape associated with a cutting blade 81 than that without it. However, there is a problem should the supplier of the tap is dishonest enough to sell the tape roll whose length is made purposely shorter than its nominal length, the user can not discover such a shameful behavior could be played in the seller's side because the user is unable to measure how long the actual length of the tape he/she has bought is.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention is made for palliating the noticeable defects inherent to the prior arts described above, and for protecting the consumer's right to check up the actual length of the tape contained in a roll after the tape is used up so as to help select a good product of another brand manufactured by a honest maker.
After a long time efforts of study and experience, the inventor has succeeded in coming up with a novel structure for adhesive tape pedestal as the present invention provides.
Accordingly, the present invention is to provide an adhesive tape structure which is associated with a cyclometer that helps the user check the actual length in a roll of tape he/she has purchased.
Another, the present invention is to provided a tape pedestal which is equipped with a visual window so as to enable the user to observe from the cyclometer indication the length of tape section being pulled out for use thereby assisting the user to pull out a just sufficient length of tape from the roll.
Still another, this improved structure for tape pedestal can be constructed simply for handling and manufacturing with a low cost.
Accordingly, the tape pedestal of the present invention consists of a pedestal body, two supporting walls, a serrated cutting blade, a hood, a roller, a driving wheel and a cyclometer. A visual window is provided on the pedestal body appropriately for observing the indication on the cyclometer which is driven by a gear mechanism. The cutting blade is set in the front end of the pedestal body and sustained by the two supporting walls at its two sides. The hood is hinged to the rear ends of the supporting walls, and the roller is rotatably sandwiched between the supporting walls behind the cutter blade. Two axles are provided behind the roller each attached respectively to the supporting wall at its own side, and a driving wheel is attached to each axle. One of the driving wheel serves as a means for driving the cyclometer by gear transmission. Besides, one of the supporting wall is conjoined to a bobbin which carries a roll of tape. With this structure the length of tape pulled out of the roll can be observed by the user through the visual window therefore the user is able to estimate proper length of the tape to be pulled out by observing the indication on the cyclometer so as not to waste the tape, meanwhile, the total length of specified roll of tape can appear on the cyclometer after the tape is used up that helps the user check whether or not the actual length of the tape in a roll complies with the nominal value thereof. This will benefit a great deal to those who consume a large amount of tape regularly.
For fuller understanding of the nature and objects of the invention, reference should be made to the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings provided below.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

These features and advantages of the present invention will be fully understood and appreciated from the following detailed description of the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a conventional adhesive tape pedestal.
FIG. 2 is an exploded bird-eye view of the adhesive tape pedestal according to the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a bottom view of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is an assembly view of the present invention;
FIGS. 5A and 5B are illustrative views about operation of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a schematic view illustrating the function of the cyclometer provided by the present invention; and
FIG. 7 is another embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

The structure for the adhesive tape pedestal according to the present invention will now be illustrated in conjunction with FIG. 2 through FIG. 4.
A pedestal body 1 has a visual window 11 opened on this bottom at a proper location, and a serrated cutting blade 12 is provided at its front edge thereof. The cutting blade 12 is sustained by two supporting walls 13 and 14 erected at its two sides on the pedestal body 1. The supporting wall 13 is conjoined to a bobbin 15 which carries a roll of tape 5. The hood 16 is hinged turnably to the rear ends of the supporting walls 13, 14. A roller 17 is rotatably sandwiched between the two supporting walls 13 and 14 behind the cutter blade 12. A first and a second axle 18 and 19 are provide behind the roller 17 attached respectively to the supporting walls 13 and 14. The first and second axles 18 and 19 are preferably disposed at the same height with the roller 17, but it is allowable to dispose them lower than the roller 17.
A cyclometer 2 is associated with a driving member 21 at one side and an indicator 22 beneath it. The driving member 21 is for driving the cyclometer 2 to rotate and count the length of the extended tape. The cyclometer 2 is equipped under a visual window 11 on the pedestal body 1. The driving member 21 may be formed of a sensor actuated switch or a trigger switch.
A first driving wheel 3 has a central fitting hole 31 to couple with the first axle 18 thereby enabling it to rotate about the first axle 18.
A second driving wheel 4 also has a central fitting hole 41 to couple with the second axle 19 thereby enabling it to rotate about the second axle 19. The second driving wheel 4 is associated with a transmission member 42 at its side. The transmission member 42 may be a gear wheel or a rocking arm or the like.
The improved structure for adhesive tape pedestal (1) is constructed of the component parts described above.
Please refer to FIGS. 5A and 5B for understanding the operation of the present invention. At first a roll of tape 5 is coiled around the bobbin 15 set on the pedestal body 1 with its tip 51 pulled down passing between the driving wheels 3, 4 and stretches out of the bottom of the roller 17 so as to adhere the pulled section of the tape 5 to an object 6 by slightly pulling back the tape 5 to roll back the two driving wheels 3, 4 with the roller 17 a little bit thereby applying an appropriate tensile force to the tape 5 that can assist the tape 5 to adhere on the object 6 tightly. At this moment, the second driving wheel 4 drives the driving member 21 of the cyclometer 2 via its transmission member 42 so as to actuate the cyclometer 2.
Please refer to FIG. 6 for understanding the function of the cyclometer 2. The driving member 21, which being a sensor actuated switch or a trigger switch, can detect the amount of motion of the transmission member 42 (for example, a rocking arm or the like) of the second driving wheel 4 and actuate the cyclometer 2 to indicate its value. For instance, one revolution of the rocking arm 42 represents 5 cm etc. By so, not only the total length of the tape 5 contained in a particular roll can be known after using up the rolled tape thereby assisting to check the actual length against the nominal length labeled on the product and protect the right of the consumer against the dishonest maker.
FIG. 7 shows another embodiment of the present invention in which the adhesive tape pedestal is made into a table type pedestal 7. The construction is similar to that described above. A roller 71 is associated with a driving wheel 72 and an auxiliary member 73 which acts simultaneously with a transmission member 721 of the driven wheel 72. The auxiliary member 73 acts to drive the driving member 741 equipped with a cyclometer 74 starts action of the cyclometer 74 to measure the length of the tape 5 which is observable from a visual window 72.
It emerges from the above description that the present invention has several noteworthy advantages compared to any product that is made according to prior arts, namely:
1. Provision of a cyclometer helps the user check the actual length in a roll of tape he/she has purchased with the nominal value leveled on the product so as to protect the right of the consumer against the dishonest maker.
2. Provision of a cyclometer with a visual window makes it possible for the user to observe the cyclometer indication from the visual window the length of tape section being pulled out for use thereby preventing the user from pulling out improper length of the tape.
3. This improved structure for tape pedestal is of a simple structure easy for handling and manufacturing with a low cost.
Many changes and modifications in the above described embodiment of the invention can, of course, be carried out without departing from the scope thereof. Accordingly, to promote the progress in science and the useful arts, the invention is disclosed and is intended to be limited only by the scope of the appended claims.

Claims

1. An adhesive tape pedestal comprising:

a pedestal body, a cyclometer, and a first and a second driving wheels, wherein the cyclometer is installed properly on the pedestal body and has a visual window observable from outside, the cyclometer is associated with a driving member at one side for driving the cyclometer to rotate, a serrate cutting blade is sustained by two supporting walls erected at two sides on the front edge of the pedestal body, one of the supporting walls is conjoined to a bobbin, a roller is rotatably sandwiched between the two supporting walls behind the cutter blade, two axles are provided behind the roller and attached respectively to the supporting walls at equal height with the roller, each of the two driving wheels has a central fitting hole to couple with a corresponding axle thereof, and one of the driving wheels is associated with a transmission member to transfer the driving force of the driving member to the cyclometer.

2. The tape pedestal of claim 1, wherein the bobbin is for carrying a roll of tape coiled thereon to rotate.

3. The tape pedestal of claim 1, wherein a hood is hinged turnably to the rear ends of the supporting walls.

4. The tape pedestal of claim 1, wherein the transmission member is a gear mechanism or a rocking arm.

5. The tape pedestal of claim 1, wherein the driving member of the cyclometer is a sensor actuated switch or a trigger switch.

6. The tape pedestal of claim 1, wherein the pedestal is a handhold type.

7. The tape pedestal of claim 1, wherein the pedestal is a table stand type.