US2205198A

US2205198A - Roll holder

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Publication number: US2205198A
Application number: US215592A
Authority: US
Inventors: Samuel N Hope
Original assignee: GRIFFITH HOPE Co
Current assignee: GRIFFITH HOPE Co
Priority date: 1938-06-24
Filing date: 1938-06-24
Publication date: 1940-06-18
Anticipated expiration: 1957-06-18

Description

s. N. HOPE 2,205, 198

ROLL HOLDER June 18, 1940.

Fild June 24, 1958 FIG 1 INVENTOR WI TN ES S ES Patented June 18, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ROLL HOLDER Application June 24, 1938, Serial No. 215,592

5 Claims.

This invention relates to holders for sheet material in roll form, such as paper toweling.

An object of the invention is to provide an inexpensive and efiicient holder for dispensing pa- 6 per or other sheet material from a roll, the holder having simple but effective means for braking the roll when the end portion of the material is to be severed.

Another object of the invention is to provide 10 improved but simplified supporting means for rotatably carrying the roll.

The invention further consists in the several features hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, illustrating one specific embodiment of the invention:

Fig. l is an end elevation of a roll paper holder constructed in accordance with the invention;

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the holder, parts being broken away and parts being shown in sec- 20 tion, and

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1 but showing the roll as it appears when braked by tensioning the paper end.

In the drawing, I designates a sheet metal wall 25 plate or back plate which is adapted to be secured to a supporting wall II by screws I2 passing through key-hole slots I3 formed in the plate. The upper portion of the plate is bent forwardly and has a horizontally extending curled edge or 30 bead It, and the lower portion of the plate is bent to form a forwardly projecting V-shaped shoulder-forming rib or bead I5 extending parallel to the curled edge I4, the rib being spaced approximately vertically below the curled edge and 35 projecting a short distance from the plane of the wall plate.

A bail-shaped hanger I6 formed of round wire has a shaft-like intermediate portion ll pivotally confined in the bearing formed by the curled edge 40 or bead I4 of the wall plate, and has resilient depending arms I8 at opposite ends provided with curved or arched inturned projections I9 to loosely enter a roll 20 of sheet material, such as paper toweling, preferably having lines of weakening 28' at intervals. The inturned projections or ends I9 extend longitudinally of the roll and approximately in the plane of the arms I8. In many instances, the roll 20 has a tubular core 2| on which the sheet material is wound. The roll is eccen- 50 trically and rotatably supported on the arched projections I9 which engage the upper portion of the inner cylindrical surface of the core at points spaced from the ends of the core so that if the core ends should be damaged they will not inter- 55 fere with the rotation of the roll. The hanger I6 is suspended in inclined position from the wall plate, the projections I9 being forward of the pivotal axis of the hanger. The free end 22 of the paper hangs from the front of the roll. The roll bears at its rear portion against the narrow 5 front edge portion of the rib I5 of the wall plate, the rib extending parallel to the roll. The distance between the pivotal axis of the hanger I6 and the roll-supporting projections I9 is approximately the same as the distance between this axis and the rib I5. When the hanger is in its normal suspended roll-supporting position the braking rib Iii extends behind the lower end portion of the hanger.

The roll 2|] is applied to the holder by entering one end onto one of the hanger projections I9 and then springing the other projection so as to permit it to enter the other end of the roll.

When paper is to be dispensed from the roll, the free end 22 of the paper is drawn outwardly by hand in an approximately horizontal direction from the top of the roll, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1. During this withdrawal the roll will turn without excessive resistance. When the desired length of paper is unwound from the roll, 25

the paper end 22 is swung downwardly to extend from the front of the roll in an approximately vertical position, as indicated by full lines in Fig. 1, and downward tension is applied to the paper end, whereupon the roll will be pressed against the ribor bead I5 and be prevented from rotating. This pressure will usually cause indentation of the roll, as indicated in Fig. 3. The eccentric mounting of the roll on the hanger projections I9 aids the rearward urging of the roll against the braking rib I 5, since the downward tension of the paper end at the front of the roll tends to swing the roll rearwardly on these projections. Sulficient tension on the paper will then cause the pa per to tear off along a line of weakening 20. As the roll becomes smaller, the roll-supporting hanger I6 swings rearwardly to a steeper angle, but the relation of the rib I5 to the roll remains such as to secure the desired braking or locking action.

The holder will accommodate rolls of widely different diameters and rolls having core openings of widely different diameters. In addition, rolls which vary somewhat in length can be used on the holder.

The claimed subject-matter of the present application includes features which are also disclosed in my copending application for R011 paper holders, Serial No. 215,591, but the claimed subject-matter of the latter application embraces additional features which are not disclosed in the present application.

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

1. A roll paper holder, comprising a wall "plate having a brake projection with a narrow roll-indenting edge, and a hanger pivotally mounted on said plate at a higher elevation than said projection, said roll-indenting projection being approximately vertically below the pivotal axis of said hanger and extending parallel thereto and behind the lower end portion of said hanger, and said hanger being adapted to rotatably support a roll of paper thereon with said roll bearing at its rear against said projection and with the free end of the paper at the front of the roll, the paper end when tensioned downwardly causing said roll to press rearwardly against said projection for braking said roll, whereby to facilitate severance of the paper.

2. A roll paper holder, comprising a sheet metal wall plate having a portion bent therefrom to form a forwardly projecting roll-indenting rib rigid with said plate, and a hanger pivotally mounted on said wall plate at a higher elevation than the rib, said rib extending substantially parallel to the pivotal axis of said hanger and extending behind the lower end portion of said hanger, and said hanger being adapted to rotatably support a roll of paper thereon with said roll bearing at its rear against said rib and with the free end of the paper at the front of the roll, the paper end when tensioned downwardly causing said roll to press rearwardly against said rib for braking said roll, whereby to facilitate severance of the paper.

3. A roll paper holder, comprising a support, a hanger pivotally mounted on said support to rotatably carry a roll of paper thereon eccentrically of the roll and above the axis of the roll, said support having a braking projection presenting a roll-indenting edge against which the rear por tion of the roll is adapted to bear, said braking projection being rigid with said support and extending behind the lower end portion of said hanger, and said roll being urged rearwardly against said projection by downward tension on the free end of the paper, whereby to facilitate severance of the paper.

4. A holder for a paper roll with open ends, comprising a hanger with wire arms each having an inwardly and upwardly bent arched free end adapted to enter an end opening of the roll and forming a rounded bearing surface engageable with the inner surface of the roll at a distance from the end of the roll, said arched ends extending substantially in the plane of said arms.

5. In a roll paper holder, the combination of supporting means, and a hanger pivotally mounted on said supporting means for rotatably carrying roll of paper thereon eccentrically of the roll and above the axis of the roll, said supporting means having a braking projection with an edge adapted to be engaged by the rear portion of the roll, the distance of said projection from the pivotal axis of said hanger being substantially the same as the radius of said hanger, said roll being urged against said braking projection by tensioning the free end of the paper, whereby to facilitate severance of the paper.

SAMUEL N. HOPE.