US2271135A

US2271135A - Dispenser

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Publication number: US2271135A
Application number: US358945A
Authority: US
Inventors: Earl R Crebbs
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1940-09-30
Filing date: 1940-09-30
Publication date: 1942-01-27
Anticipated expiration: 1959-01-27

Description

Jan. 27, 1942. E 2,271,135

DISPENSER Filed Sept. 30, 1940 INVENTOR. f4 2 L E. CREE a s A TTOENEYS.

Patented Jan. 27, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE I 2,271,135 i i f DISPENSER Earl R. Crebbs, San Francisco, Calif.

Application September 30, 1940, Serial No. 358,945

2 Claims.

My invention relates to dispensers and more particularly to a refillable dispenser in which rolled sheet material may be mounted, and torn off along predetermined tear-lines.

Among the objects of my invention are:

To provide a dispenser for rolled sheet material having tear-lines therein; to provide a dispenser for rolled sheet material that is easily and quickly refilled; to provide a dispenser for materials such as paper towels, sanitary toilet seat covers, and the like, joined by tear-lines; and to provide a simple, relatively cheap and efficient refillable dispenser for rolled sheet material.

Other objects of my inventionwill be apparent or will be specifically pointed out in the description forming a part of this specification, but I do not limit myself to the embodiment of the invention herein described, as various forms may be adopted within the scope of the claims.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of one preferred form of my invention showing the position of the sheet as it is being withdrawn from the dispenser.

Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the dispenser and contained roll.

Fig. 3 is a. view, partly in section and partly in elevation, of the end spring arrangement, with the cover closed.

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3 with the cover opened.

My invention may be more fully understood by a direct reference to the drawing, wherein the dispenser body comprises a back I having indentations 2 therein whereby the back I may be applied to a vertical wall. Indentations 2 have screw apertures 3 therein, through which screws may be passed and afiixed to the Wall directly, or a fiat button may be cemented to the wall, this button having a bolt passing through aperture 3. In either case, the dispenser is adapted to be firmly attached to the vertical wall. The body also comprises a top portion 4, to which a cover 5 is applied by hinges 6, this cover being preferably of cylindrical contour. Cover 5 is maintained in a predetermined closed position by an end portion 1 thereof overlapping body sizes 8, and the lower portion of the cover terminates I in fingers l adjacent each lower corner of the cover for use in tearing off paper sheets H from a strip roll l3 wound on a core l2 with the customary tear-lines between sheets. Core I2 is mounted in the dispenser on end pivots l and I6, one pivot 15 being mounted on spring I! attached to'one side wall, the other pivot l6 being solidly riveted to the other side Wall.

The bottom 20 of the dispenser body extends forward beneath a mounted rolll3 but terminates'short of the vertical plane touching the front periphery of the core [2, so that irrespective of the amount of paper on the roll the end of the strip, when depending downwardly, will not touch bottom 20.

Cover 5 is held in closed position and also in an open position by the use of U-shaped doubleacting springs 2| positioned at each end of the dispenser body adjacent and inside of each side wall 8. These springs operate as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. Each spring is a tempered wire somewhat semicircular in shape, and has one end 22 hooked into back I of the dispenser body, the spring then taking a forward course against the inside of side wall 8. The spring then passes through a side wall slot 24 to terminate in an an opposite end 25 hooked into cover 5 on the inside thereof. The spring is under an expanding stress at all times, and inasmuch as the cover end 25 of the spring passes around the hinge axis during the movement of the cover from closed to open position. the shortest distances between the two ends will be when the cover is closed and when the cover is open, as shown by broken line 26 in Fig. 4. Thus, the cover is held tightly closed by the spring and when opened is held open by the same spring against the wall on which the dispenser is mounted.

In operation, a strip roll l3 of sheets ll separated by tear-lines and wound on core I2 is in sorted in the dispenser by opening. the cover, inserting pivot I6 in a pivot aperture 21 in one end of the core, and then sliding the opposite end of the core over spring-mounted pivot l5 until pivot l 5 enters the pivot aperture 21 in that end of the core. This can be done without manually holding the cover, due to the fact that the cover springs 2! hold the cover open. The cover is then closed with the end of the rolled strip depending from the dispenser in contact with fingers II).

To tear sheets II from the roll the end of the strip is grasped in the hand, pulling the strip downwardly and outwardly until fingers l0 enter the tear-lines and start the separation of a unit I l. The outward force needed to tear a unit II from the remainder of the roll is resisted by the springs 2| and the unit is torn off. Due to the fact that the springs 2| are used to hold the cover firmly against the remainder of the body of the dispenser, no zigzag arrangement of the de' pending strip is necessary as the cover does not tend to move outwardly and the springs are made to have sufiicient tension to opposite the tearing forces. Inasmuch as the bottom 20 of the container does not enter into the tearing of the strip in any manner, the tearing is accomplished with equal facility whether or not the roll is a full roll or a roll that is nearly empty. The strip depending from a full roll will meet the fingers H1 at an angle which is only slightly different from that of the strip depending from a nearly empty roll, as I prefer to bring the cover fingers l0 around underneath the roll to terminate at or slightly to the rear of the vertical plane touching the front periphery of core l2. Thus, whether or not the roll is full or nearly empty the units II are removed therefrom with equal facility and th depending strip is unrolled only in contact with fingers III.

I claim:

1. Container means for dispensing sheet material rolled on a core and. having tear lines extending across said sheet comprising a body having a back portion adapted to be attached to a vertical wall, and side portions having inner pins upon which said core may be mounted, a bottom portion extending forwardly to terminate slightly to the rear of a vertical plane passing through a line joining said inner pins, and a cover hinged to the top of said body portion and extending forwardly around and resting on the edges of said side portions and terminating in tear line intersecting fingers below the level of said bottom and slightly forward of said vertical plane.

2. In a refillable dispenser of rolled sheet material, a body having a vertical portion adapted to be attached to a vertical wall, side walls attached to said vertical portion and inwardly carrying opposed roll mounting means thereon, and a cover hinged to the top of vertical portion and extending above, forwardly and downwardly around a roll mounted on said mounting means and resting in closed position on the top and front edges of said side walls, and a roughly semicircular wire spring having one end inserted into said vertical portion, and the other end inserted into said cover, said spring passing around said hinge on the interior of said body closely adjacent one side wall and being under diametrical tension at both open and closed positions of said cover, said spring being maintained in a vertical plane by passingthrough a spring restraining apertur in the top edge of the adjacent side wall.

EARL R. CREBBS.