US1565035A - Attachment for roll-paper stands - Google Patents

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Dec. 8 I K. TAKAHASHI ATTACHMENT FOR ROLL PAPERSTANDS Filed Oct. 15, 1923 A a INVENTOR H avz'o 72km! HI Patented Dec. 8, 1925.

UNlTED STATQS KENZO TAKAI-IASHI, G1 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

ATTACHMENT FOR ROLL-PAPER STANDS.

Ap lication filed October 15, 1923. Serial No. 668,539.

T all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, KEN/.0 TAKAI-IASI-II, a subject of the Emperor of Japan, and a resident of Seattle, King County, lVashington,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments for Roll-Paper Stands, of which the following is a specification.

This invent ion relates to improvements in roll paper stands and more particularly to an attachment for the tearing-off bar of such stands which will make it easier to grasp the end of the paper strip when it is desired to draw out some paper from the roll.

Ordinarily when it is desired to tear off some paper from the roll, it is first required that the roll be rotated slightly in order to advance the end of the strip from beneath the tear-off bar. This is sometimes inconvenient especially when the roll of paper is large and when the user has one hand occu pied with an article which he intends to wrap.

The object of this invention, therefore, has been to provide an auxiliary means that may he made as a part of the tear-off bar or may be attached thereto and which will provide that the end of the strip of the paper roll may be easily grasped.

Other objects of the invention reside in the various details of construction of the attachment and in the manner in which it may be applied to the teanoff bars of paper stands.

In accomplishing these and other objects of the invention, I have provided the improved details of construction, the preferred forms of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein-- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a paper roll stand having a tear-off bar equipped with an attachment constructed and applied in accordance with the present invention,

Figure 2 is a transverse, sectional view of the stand and paper roll and showing the application of the present device to the tearolf bar of the stand.

Figure 3 is a detailed, perspective view of a part of the tear-off bar and the attach ment as applied thereto.

Figure l is a top view of the attachment as applied to the tear-off bar, a part of which is broken away for better illustration.

Referring there in detail to the dram :5 tags;"

arms 7 that they will yieldably retain the bar against the paper.

The construction, as above described, 1s

that of the ordinary paper roll stand and may vary in accordance with the size of the roll to be used therein or for other reasons.

Detachably fixed to the bar 8 and extending the length thereof is a forwardly projecting plate 10 provided with a straight tearing edge 11. This plate extends several inches forwardly from the bar 8 and would he of slightly greater length than the length of the paper roll. It is held in place by means of an upturned flange 12 at its back edge which seats against the back face of the bar 8 and from which hooks 13 project upwardly and over the upper edge of the bar 8 in such manner as to rigidly retain it in functional position.

Attached to the plate 10 so as to extend parallel therewith along the underside of the plate, is a paper supporting strip which has end portions 15 extended upwardly. and through slots 16 in the ends of the plate 10 and has the ends 17 clinched to hold the strip in place. This strip has a central recess 18 formed in the outer edge thereof, as is shown in Figure 4, and directly above this an opening 19 is provided in the plate 10.

While I have shown the plate 10 formed separately and adapted to be attached to the bar 8, it is apparent that the bar 8 could be removed and the plate flange l2 fastened directly to the arms 7. The present drawing illustrates the application of attachments of the present character to paper stands that are already in use. For paper stands yet to be manufactured, the device would be made as a part of the stand and not as an attachment.

In using the device, as illustrated, the end of the strip of paper from the roll would be threaded between the underside of the plate 10 and the supporting strip when a person desires to tear off a strip of paper from the roll, he grasps the-end of the strip as it projects from between the plates 10 and 1-4:. The recess 18 in the strip l t provides that the end of the strip may beeasily grasped. The strip is torn oil by drawing it upwardly against the edge 11 of the plate. The end of. the roll strip is then left projecting between the plates 10 and 14: and may readily be observed through the opening 1.9.

Attachments of this character may be provided for paper stands of various lengths and size, andproiddes that the end of the strip may easily and readilybegraspedand drawn out.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters,Patent, is:

An attachment for paper roll stands of that type comprising means for rotatably mounting a paper roll and a tear off bar with yielding mounting; for urging it against the roll, consisting of an auxiliary tear 0t]? plate substantially the length of said bar and bent along a longitudinal line with its upper edge portion adapted to underlie the firstlmentioned tear off bar and provided with clips formed therefrom and adapted to be bent over the bar to attach the plate functionally thereto; the lower edge portion of the plate being bent outwardly to extend substantially from the roll and provided with a lower tearing edge and a paper strip supporting bar disposed beneath the plate and having a recess formed in its outer edge, and having upwardly directed end portions attached to the underside at the ends of the out-turned portions of the plate to hold said bar in spaced relation to the plate for the purpose set forth.

Signed at Seattle, King County, ashington this 5th day of October 1923.

KENZO TAKAHA SHI.

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