Copy holder and roll label dispensing device for typewriter

Claim 1

An improved copy holder and dispensing apparatus, useful with a typewriter provided with a typewriter roll and typewriter carriage, for feeding gummed labels from a continuously wound roll into the typewriter and beneath the typewriter roll of the typewriter carriage, comprising a label roll dispensing assembly wherein is included an elongate front panel, a pair of oppositely disposed parallelly aligned side panels, the edges of which are adjoined to the opposite edges of the front panel to provide a member of U-shaped cross-section, a front panel extension projecting below and at a right angle to the edges of the side panels, a copy holder comprising a channel support located on the outward face of the front panel for containing copy, a slot, of greater width than that of the gummed labels passed therethrough, located within the front panel below the copy holder, an axle extending through openings located within the pair of side panels upon which the roll of labels can be mounted and an end thereof extended through the slot of the front panel into operative relationship with the typewriter, a holder for support of the label roll dispensing assembly including A flat horizontal base upon which the typewriter can be rested for support of the holder support and label roll dispensing assembly, a pair of parallelly aligned vertical channel members attached to the horizontal base, each being provided with a tab similarly inclined from horizontal, a pair of slats extended between the tabs, one on each side of a tab, to provide a slot opening within which the front panel extension of the label roll dispensing assembly can be extended to secure the label roll dispensing assembly to said support holder whereby gummed labels can be continuously unreeled from the continuously wound label roll and inscriptions typed on individual labels, as labels from the continuously wound roll are freely laterally moved back and forth within the slot of the front panel as the typewriter carriage is reciprocated and the typing of the labels progresses.