US1188174A

US1188174A - Automatic individual paper-towel and toilet-paper dispenser.

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Publication number: US1188174A
Application number: US6948215A
Authority: US
Inventors: Newton S Hillyard
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1915-12-30
Filing date: 1915-12-30
Publication date: 1916-06-20
Anticipated expiration: 1933-06-20

Description

N. S. HILLYARD.

AUTOMATIC INDIVIDUAL PAPER TOWEL AND TOILET PAPER DISPENSER. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 30. I915.

1,188,174. Patented June 20,1916.

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Specification of letters Patent.

Patented: June 20, 1916.

ai p igaa n 111m D 0,13 5- mamma- 4 To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, NEWTON S.

YARD, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at St. Joseph, in the county of Buchanan and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Individual Paper-Towel and Toilet-Paper Dispensers, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a fixture for dispensing individual perforated paper towels and toilet paper whereby a large part of the waste of paper which now occurs with the fixtures used will be prevented.

the assembling of the parts in siich posi- .tlOIl as Wlll permit the opposite axle F and its end of the frame to be pressed outward a sufficient distance to allow for the replacement of paper towels or toilet paper I when a supply thereof is exhausted as shown in Fig. 3. Each of said caps is provided with a lug J and near each end of the frame, at the top thereof, there is an inwardly turned flange K.

From the foregoing description and the accompanying drawings it will be seen that the lugs J on caps C on the ends of the roller are so located that they insure proper engagement with the flanges K on the frame In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is to prevent the roller being thrown or re a top view of the roller the upper half of the roll of paper cut away, showing the lower half of the roll of paper and the frame and axle supporting said roller, and mechanism at the ends of the axle for limiting the revolution of the roller for dispensing an individual sheet of paper at a revolution; Fig. 2 is an end view of the axle, paper and supporting frame shown in normal position, the dotted lines' showing the abnormal position when the paper is being detached; Fig. 3 is a front view of the frame, with the axle in position for replenishing the roller with paper towels or toilet paper; Fig. 4 is a front View of one end of the roller, frame, axle, nut, lug and flange when in normal position; and Fig. 5 is'an end View of the roller with metal cap thereon showing a threaded bolt or rod in the center to hold the caps rigidly to each end of the roller, a perforation in said cap to receive the axle and a lug to limit the throw of the roller which by means of engaging with a flange on the ends of the frame prevents the fixture allowing the detaching of more than one towel or toilet paper at a single operation.

Corresponding letters refer to corresponding parts throughout the several views, the letter A representing the roller which has one side partially flattened as indicated by A in Fig. 1 of the drawings. B is a metal frame for supporting said roller and C C are metal caps held rigidly on the ends of the roller by means of bolts or rod D. E is a perforation in eachof said caps and F and F are threaded screw bolts serving as axles for the roller. H H are chambers or openings in the ends of the roller, as shown in said Fig. 1, to receive said axles, and H is a nut on the inner end of axle F placed thereon volved forward beyond a position that will permit the same revolving backward when the paper is detached from the roll. After individual paper or towel is dispensed which is at a time when the roller is in abnormal position, said roller is automatically and instantly thrown back to its normal position on account of the roller being engaged with the axle on an eccentric, in which position it will remain until the end of the next towel or toilet paper is drawn forward. Said device operating on an eccentric with the proper adjustments of the lugs and flanges to limit the travel of the roller backward and forward insures its revolution to normal and abnormal positions, obviating springs or other mechanical means. I

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a fixture-for detachable towels and toilet paper the combination with a metal frame attachable to the side of a wall, spring metal ends to said frame bent forward at corresponding right angles and a roller having chambers at its ends of different length, of a flange cut and bent horizontally inward from the top edge of each end of said frame, a screw bolt serving as an axle through the threaded openings in the ends of the frame, a single lug on each end of the roller adapted to engage with the flange on the frame at each partial revolution. of the roller, a nut on the inner end of the longer axle to prevent said axle from becoming detached from its end of the roller when necessary to spring the opposite metal end of the frame and its inner end of the longer axle to prevent the roller becoming detached.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

NEVTON S. HILLYARD. Witnessesz' W. E. HILLYARD, MARIE MITCHELL.

ing a metal frame, spring metal ends to said frame bent forward at corresponding right angles, threaded caps on said ends With threaded perforations therein, a bolt threaded at each end serving as an axle, said axles being of different lengths, a partially fiattened roller provided With a chamber of different length at each end and a nut on the Qopiea of this patent may be obtained Ior five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner sf Patents.

Washington, D. 0.