US369855A - Device for feeding and delivering toilet-paper - Google Patents

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(No Model.) 2 sheets-sheet 1. H. HUBBBLL.

DEVICE EOE SEEDING AND DELIVEEING TOILET PAPER.

Patented Sept. 13, 1887.

DEVICE FOR FEEDING AND DELIVERING TOILET PAPER.

15,369,855 Patented Sept. 13, 1887.

Ilmlll Il'nrrnn STATES PATnNT Carien.

HARVEY HUBBELL, OF NORWICH, CONNECTICUT.

DEVICE FOR FEEDING AND DELIVERING TOILET-PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 369,855, dated September 13, 1887.

Serial No. 235,107. (No model.)

To C/,ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARVEY HUBBELL, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Norwich, county of New London, and State of Connecticut, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Holding and Delivering Toilet Paper, which improvements are fully set forth and described in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which- Figure lisa side elevation of my said device, showing also in dotted lines the relative position of the outer half part when opened to receive a new roll of paper. Fig. 2 is a view of the feed-rolls detached from the case, and illustrates the mechanism by which said rolls may be partially rotated after each cut to leave the end of the paper projecting outward, as hereinafter described. Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal section of my device. In Figs. 4 and 5 I have shown the feed-rolls e e with different forms of cutting-knives,together with sections of the paper as cut by said knives.

My invention relates to devices for supporting a continuous strip or roll of toilet-paper; and it consists of certain combinations of simpie mechanical elements by means which of said paper can be removed only a single sheet at atime. It has been an almost universal practice heretofore to furnish toilet-paper of this class in packages of cut sheets, or in a continuous roll, from which it may be nnwound and removed at will. When so provided for public use-as at hotels, railway-sta4 tions, mills, and other institutions wholly or in part opened to the public-large quantities of such paper are carried away (virtually stolen) by the frequenters of such places.

The object of my invention is to prevent this expensive and annoying practice by inclosing said paper in a suitable oase from which, as above stated, only one sheet or section of the paper can be removed at a time.

Referring to the drawings, the letters a a' indicate the case of my device, made preferably of light cast metal, hinged together at one end, as atb, and having projectinglugs cat the opposite end formed with coincident holes through which the loop of a padlock may be passed to lock the sections c a together.

Hung in suitable bearings in one half ofthe case are contactrolls ee, geared together substantially as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, one of said rolls being provided with a knife, z,which engages a corresponding groove, h', in 'the companion roll to sever the paper at each revolution of said rolls, as more fully described hereinafter. The case is cut away adjacent to the delivery side of the feed-rolls, as at x, to allow the paper unobstructed egress as it is fed from between said rolls.

One end of the inclosinglcase is made large enough to receive a roll of paper, hiwhich may be supported on a central shaft or may be simply laid in the case, as in Fig. 3. Vhen anew roll is placed in the case, the end of the paper is carried around a tension-wire, z', and is then passed between rolls e c. Now, by grasping the end of said paper and drawing it outward the rolls are caused to rotate until the knife comes into contact with the paper and scvers it, the section thus severed being equal in lengt to the circumference of the feed-rolls.

It Will be obvious that when a straight knife is'used and a square sheet delivered some means must be provided for feeding the end of the paper forward a short distance after each cut,so that it may be grasped when it is desired to remove another section. This I accomplish in a simple manner by attaching to the shaft of one of the feed-rolls a crank, k, whose free end is connected to aspring7 m. The opposite end of the spring is secured to the inner side of the oase. Crank k is so located relative to the revolving knife that when said knife has effected a out the crank will have passed the center, and spring m will then act to keep the rolls in motion about one-third of a revolution, or far enough to carry the paper forward and leave the end projecting slightly beyond the case.

In Figs. 4 and 5 I have shown cutting-knives set at an angle to the roll instead of parallel with its axial center. The construction shown in Fig. 4 is such that when the knives finish cutting the angular end of the uncut strip pro jects beyond the rolls a distance sufficient to enable one to grasp it easily.

In order to prevent any tendency on the part of the paper to stick in the knives and refuse to feed outward, the knives may. also be left a IOO quarter of an inch, or thereabout, apart, vas in Fig. 5, in which case snfeient stock, as ato, will be left uncut in the middle of the strip to causethe paper to feed regularly. This uncut portion o, when the knives have completed the cut, is easily torn apart, leaving the end of the strip projecting.

rIhe means which I have adopted for severing the paper at stated distances is, so far as I ani acquainted with the state of the art, new in this class. Ihe knife h does not engage one of the side Walls of the groove h to produce an actual shearing cut to sever the paper,but rather actsy as a punch and die and tears apart said paper on the line of the knife, the paper being meanwhile strained taut by the act of drawing it forward by hand. The knives may be very dull yand yet perform their ofIice perfectly.

Having described rnyinvention and the manner in which it is to be operated, I claim-` 1. vIn combination with a tWo part case hinged as described and having at one end a paperreceptacle, contact-rolls pivoted in said case, one of said rolls being grooved in a direc- .adapted to engage said groove, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In combination, a paper inclosing case, contact-rolls ce, pivoted in said case, carrying a knife and groove, as described, for severing the paper at each revolution, crank k,secnred to the journal of one of said rolls, and a spring connecting the Wrist-pin of said crank and the inclosing-case, substantially as and for the object specified.

3. In combination with an inclosing case having one end formed as a paper-receptacle, Contact feed-rolls pivoted in said case, as described, said feed-rolls being provided With paper-severing knives broken in their length to leave an uncut section of paper, substantially as and for the object specied.

HARVEY HUBBELL.

Witnesses: l

FRANK H. ALLEN, F. L. ALLEN.

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