Winding – tensioning – or guiding – Coil holder or support – Randomly oriented coil holder
Reexamination Certificate
2000-02-07
2001-10-16
Rivera, William A. (Department: 3653)
Winding, tensioning, or guiding
Coil holder or support
Randomly oriented coil holder
C242S129530, C242S405300, C242S588300, C242S596400, C242S596700, C242S599300
Reexamination Certificate
active
06302352
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field
This invention is in the field of tape dispensers, more particularly, warning tape dispensers.
2. State of the Art
Police, fire fighters, and construction people use warning (or caution) tape to “rope” out people from hazardous areas. Warning tapes are rolled up within themselves without benefit of a spool. Dispensing warning tape without a spool is difficult and awkward to accomplish.
There are tape dispensing devices which have been developed in the past. Willoughby, U.S. Pat. No. 5,641,109, discloses a belt-mounted tape dispenser.
Other prior art provide for dispensing other types of material. Sato, U.S. Pat. No. 1,990,135, provides a wire handling device. Crandall, U.S. Pat. No. 1,896,741, discloses a carrying reel for fishing line. Gerould, U.S. Pat. No. 1,554,082, discloses a twine holder. Fullington, U.S. Pat. No. 1,447,538, provides a tension device for rope making machines. Vannatta, U.S. Pat. No. 4,46,487, discloses a wire reel for taking up wire from temporary fences and unreeling wire for the erection of fences.
Warning (or caution) tapes are manufactured in rolls. Of the known prior art, there have been no devices which have been invented to dispense and carry warning tapes, probably because it would be necessary to unroll the tape first and then to reroll it onto a dispensing device. Further, no tape dispensing device has been designed that provides for retractable cylinders, which act in concert as a spindle, to allow tape to be mounted for dispensing without having to unroll and to reroll the tape first.
OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION
An object of this invention is to provide a device to allow tape to be mounted for dispensing without first unrolling the tape and then rerolling it onto the device. Another object of this invention is to provide a device which can easily carry tape as the tape is being dispensed. Still another object of this device is to enable a user to carry rolls of big, bulky tape; it is primarily contemplated that this invention would be used to carry and dispense warning tape.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This invention is a dispenser and carrier for tape, primarily warning tape; it allows the user to dispense warning tape while a tape roll is being carried. For purposes of description, the warning tape dispenser and carrier is comprised of a handle the ends of which are folded toward each other to form a C-shape. The ends also have openings for inserting cylinders which form a spindle to hold rolls of warning tape. The cylinders are retracted to allow insertion of the rolls of new warning tape after an old tape has been used.
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patent: 1554082 (1925-09-01), Gerould
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patent: 5641109 (1997-06-01), Willoughby
patent: 5735400 (1998-04-01), Packard
patent: 5738297 (1998-04-01), Bailey et al.
patent: 5878932 (1999-03-01), Huang
Mallinckrodt Robert R
Rivera William A.
Scarborough John H
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