Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture – Surface bonding means and/or assembly means therefor – With work feeding or handling means
Reexamination Certificate
1999-10-04
2001-12-04
Osele, Mark A. (Department: 1734)
Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
Surface bonding means and/or assembly means therefor
With work feeding or handling means
C156S523000, C156S579000, C118S076000, C242S160400, C242S171000, C242S588600
Reexamination Certificate
active
06325130
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a coat transfer tool for serving as an eraser, marker, glue or the like by transferring a coat of, for example, correction composition, fluorescent composition or adhesive composition (hereinafter referred to as “a coat of composition”) from a carrier tape to a substrate such as paper.
2. Description of the Related Art
Commercially available coat transfer tools of this kind generally include a feed reel provided in a case and wound with a coat transfer tape, a takeup reel, provided in the case, for winding a carrier tape which is fed from the feed reel and whose coat of composition has been peeled off, a transmitting unit for transmitting revolutions between the feed reel and the takeup reel and an applying strip disposed on the path of the tape running between the feed reel and the takeup reel and adapted to be pressed against a surface of a substrate, for example, a paper surface to transfer the coat onto the substrate surface.
To neatly transfer the coat onto the substrate surface using the applying strip, or to neatly cut the transferred tape off the substrate surface, the applying strip should be kept at an appropriate angle to the substrate surface. This requires elastic displacement of the tip of the applying strip with relation to the case.
However, as the conventional coat transfer tool causes the applying strip to be deformed by its own elasticity, a problem results in that its elastic displacement is subject to an inevitable limit and the applying strip is difficult to manufacture.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing and other problems, disadvantages, and drawbacks of the conventional writing utensils, the present invention has been devised, and it is an object of the invention to provide a writing utensil that can be inexpensively manufactured and easily assembled. Further, to provide a coat transfer tool which can facilitate the manufacture of the applying strip and enables the applying strip to attain adequate elastic displacement.
In order to attain the object suggested above, there is provided, according to one aspect of the invention, a coat transfer tool including a case having a plate-shaped part, a feed reel provided in the case and wound with a coat transfer tape, a takeup reel, disposed in the case, for winding the carrier tape which is fed from the feed reel and whose coat of composition has been peeled off, a transmitting unit for transmitting revolutions between the feed reel and the takeup reel slippably, and an applying strip disposed on the path of the tape running between the feed reel and the takeup reel and pressed against a surface of a substrate. Additionally, there is an elastic pressing body, projecting from the plate-shaped part of the case and maintained in contact with a general surface of the applying strip, for elastically pressing the applying strip against the general surface in a substantially vertical direction.
As the elastic pressing body provides a sufficient elastic force to the applying strip, the force that the applying strip receives from the surface of the substrate is buffered and, simultaneously when a coat layer of the tape is to be transferred and when the coat layer of the tape is to be cut, the applying strip can be placed at respective, appropriate angles relative to the surface of the substrate. Therefore, when transferring is to be continued, the coat layer is reliably supplied from the transferring tool to the surface of the substrate without being unintentionally cut and, when transferring is to be completed, the coat layer can be neatly cut.
According to a second aspect of the invention, the elastic pressing body protrudes from, and is integrated with, the plate-shaped part of the case. As the elastic pressing body and the case are integrated (e.g., integrally formed), the elastic pressing body can be disposed without increasing the number of parts.
According to a third aspect of the invention, the plate-shaped part of the case integrated with the elastic pressing body, as in the second aspect of the invention, has a side window where it overlaps with the elastic pressing body as viewed in a direction substantially orthogonal to the plate-shaped part. As the side window is formed, the elastic pressing body can be readily formed with the case.
According to a fourth aspect of the invention, an edge of the side window of the case, as in the third aspect of the invention, is provided with a limiting unit to limit the movement of the elastic pressing body. As the movement of the elastic pressing body is limited by the limiting unit, the displacement of the applying strip can also be limited.
According to a fifth aspect of the invention, a supporting body, for supporting the base of the applying strip, is formed integrally with the elastic pressing body according to any one of the first through fourth aspects of the invention. As the supporting body is also integrated with the elastic pressing body, the applying strip can be supported without entailing an increase in the number of parts.
According to a sixth aspect of the invention, the case, according to any one of the first through fifth aspects of the invention, includes an upper case and a lower case, either one having formed within, a protruding shaft for pivoting either the feed reel or the takeup reel. The protruding shaft has a pair of engaging pieces whose tips are separated and oppose each other, and an engaging part is formed at the tip of each engaging piece. The other one of the upper or the lower case is provided with an engaging projection, engaged by the engaging parts, to be gripped by the pair of engaging pieces. Slits are formed near the engaging projection corresponding to the engaging parts.
The upper case and the lower case can be combined by causing an engaging projection, provided on either one of the upper case or the lower case, to engage with engaging parts provided on the other case and to be gripped by a pair of engaging pieces. If a need arises to detach the upper case and the lower case from each other after they have been combined, the projection can be disengaged by operating the engaging parts through the corresponding slits, thereby enabling the upper case and the lower case to be separated from each other.
The present disclosure relates to subject matter contained in Japanese Patent Application No. Hei 11-180627, filed on Jun. 25, 1999, and which is expressly incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
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Anzai Sadahiro
Kageyama Hidehei
Mitsuya Yoshihide
Kotobuki & Co. Ltd.
McGinn & Gibb PLLC
Osele Mark A.
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