In a tape cartridge which turnably holds within a housing a single tape reel on which a length of tape is wound, the tape reel consisting of an upper flange, a lower flange, and a hub which is open at top and is closed at the bottom, the hub having a metal disk in the center of the outer bottom surface and teeth formed around the outer periphery of the metal disk for engagement with a drive shaft of a recorder, the underside of the hub having throughholes for engagement with a brake release plat...

A tape cartridge includes a pair of hubs and a casing. The respective hubs include respective drums for winding a tape-shaped medium thereon and respective cylinders with respective driving shaft insertion bores for accepting respective driving shafts of a recording/reproducing device. The hubs are rotatably supported in the a casing having upper and lower halves. The casing has driving shaft insertion holes formed therein so as to accept the respective driving shafts. The cartridge includes a s...

There is provided a tape printing apparatus in which a cartridge-ejecting function by an ejection mechanism and a cartridge-holding function by a cartridge compartment are separated from each other based on a simple construction. In the tape printing apparatus including a cartridge compartment for removably mounting a tape cartridge therein, and an ejection mechanism for lifting the tape cartridge mounted, from the cartridge compartment, the cartridge compartment has a bottom thereof formed with...

A tape cartridge includes reels having seats at the lower ends; a shell having a lower half formed with reel receivers with which the reel seats are loosely engaged, respectively, and an opening for loading a tape; a lid rotatably mounted to the shell for closing the opening of the shell; and a reel lock member for ensuring locking of the reels in connection with a closing operation of the lid. The tape cartridge further includes movement restricting means for restricting further movement of the...

Adhesive tape for a bond which can be redetached by pulling, without residue or damage, having a foam backing coated on one or both sides with a self-adhesive composition, characterized in that a) on at least one of the two sides of the foam backing there is applied a self-adhesive composition whose ratio of tear strength to stripping force (peel force) at a peel angle of less than 10.degree. to the bond surface is greater than 1.2:1, and b) the foam backing has a modulus of electricity of less ...

A tape printer for printing input data onto a printing tape medium wherein a feature is included which allows messages to be displayed in a language selected from two or more languages provided by the tape printer. A language selection process is started only under specific conditions such as at a time when the power supply is turned on for the first time. In the language selection process, a plurality of languages are displayed cyclically on the display panel of the tape printer and users can s...

A tape is woven on-grain and has printed thereon at repetitive intervals an optically converging marking pattern which converges onto a locating pattern. The converging patterns are most preferably lines which resemble the mathematical symbols for "greater-than" and "less-than". The converging patterns each converge on opposite sides of a rectangular box which designates where a board or other structural component will most preferably be located. Within the rectangular box is an additional line ...

A drywall tape comprises a narrow paper tape of uniform width and non-uniform thickness including a central portion of greater thickness and side portions of lesser thickness. The tape has a width to be disposed in a depression formed at a drywall joint by sloping outer surface portions of drywall sheets, respectively, forming the joint, such that a planar outer surface of the tape is substantially flush with non-sloping outer surface portions of the drywall sheets, respectively. An adhesive dry...

An improvement of a tape cartridge is characterized in that connecting plate parts having recesses, one for each, in the rear inner portions thereof facing the exposed tape portion. The recesses formed in the rear inner portions of the connecting plate parts are preferably bevels tapering rearwardly and outwardly, but they may take the form of steps instead.

A tape dispenser comprises a generally palm-sized housing formed of a single piece of material. The housing completely encloses a roll of tape mounted within the housing for rotation relative to the housing. The housing comprises a body enclosing the roll of tape, an opening in the body for dispensing the tape, and a thumb-engageable cover integrally formed with the body. The thumb-engageable cover is pivotable relative to the body to open and close the opening. The cover includes a cutter (e.g....