Applicator for automatically dispensing self-adhesive products

US8814456B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• S. C. JOHNSON & SON, INC. · US

Inventors

• Jeffrey A. Schultz · Racine, US
• Michael E. Klinkhammer · Racine, US
• Steven A. Zach · Waterford, US
• Russell B. Wortley · Kenosha, US
• William J. Rice · Elyria, US
• Doraiswami Jaichandra · Racine, US
• Mark D. Duennes · Glenview, US
• Keith Kristiansen · Stratford, US
• Jeffrey E. Butler, Jr. · Edgewater, US
• Thomas Van Dyk · Ramsey, US
• David Demar · Edgewater, US
• Roland Charriez · Edgewater, US
• John Kiely · Morristown, US
• John Anastasiadis · Tinton Falls, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 12, 2010
• Grant date: Aug 26, 2014
• Expiry date: Nov 13, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T156/17
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A device employed by a user for applying a self-adhesive product to a surface may include an outer housing configured for gripping by a single hand of the user, the outer housing having a distal end, and a volume of self-adhesive product disposed within the outer housing. An automatic dispensing mechanism is disposed within the outer housing and operatively coupled to the outer housing and the volume of self-adhesive product, the automatic dispensing mechanism configured to advance at least a portion of the volume of self-adhesive product through the outer housing distal end in response to a manual actuation force applied to the outer housing.