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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 1997
Filed:
Jul. 12, 1995
Bruce E Samuelson, Stillwater, MN (US);
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
A combination of a tape dispenser including a molded polymeric frame and a cutting blade on a blade support portion of the frame, and a hanger sheet (e.g., of card stock and printed with trademark and use information) having a first end portion engaged with the frame of the dispenser, and a second portion projecting from the dispenser and having an opening adapted to receive a peg in a sales display area so that the tape dispenser can be hung from the peg by the hanger sheet. The blade support portion of the dispenser comprises a plurality of spaced projections from an inner surface of a dispenser wall that have generally coplanar distal end surfaces on which the blade is mounted. The first end portion of the hanger sheet has openings receiving the projections with the first end portion of the sheet around the projections, between the cutting blade and the inner surface of the wall supporting the projections. The hanger sheet can be separated from the dispenser by tearing it along lines of weakness intersecting those openings.