USRE12257E - Toilet-paper - Google Patents

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'No. 12,257- RBISSUED AUG. 9, 1904. w. M. DAVIS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VVILBUR M. DAVIS, OF 'WINTHROP, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES H. STEBBINS, OF EVERETT, MASSACHUSETTS.

TOILET-PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Reissued Letters Patent No. 12,257, dated August 9, 1004.

v Original No 714,652, dated November 25, 1902. Application for reissue filed June 11, 1903. Serial No. 161,05 6- T0 all whom it. may concern:

Be it known that I, TILBUR M. DAvis, a citizen of the United States, and a; resident of Winthrop, in the county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toilet Paper, of. which the following is a full, clear, and exact,

description. This invention is in the line of toilet-paper in which the same is woiind in a continuous roll partially severed at intervals; and itsobject is the easy grasping of the end ofthe paper whichit is desired to tear free from the remainder of the roll.

The other features of my invention areas hereinafter set forth.

Referring to the drawings forming part of thisspecilication, Figure 1 is a perspective 'view of a roll of toilet-paper made in accordanee with my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse'sectional View of the same, and Fig. 3 is a side view. of a deeply-curved form of my The toilet-paper may be wound upon a cylindrical roller in the usual manner or upon a flat board; but whichever way is adopted the roll can with equal readiness be given the flattened and also the concavo-conv'ex shape showr n Fig. 1. p A sheet of pasteboard' 2 is introo ted within the roll to constitute a supporting-core, the width of the pasteboard being sufiicient to hold said roll 1 in its flattened condition and its length being proportioned to ,causeits ends to project f'rom'an eighth to a quarter of an inch beyond the sides of the Strips of cloth, paper, or other material 3 are then gummed or pasted to the sides of the roll in front of said pasteboard core 2 and alsoto said core, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Then with 'a knife or knives suitably gaged the cuts 5 are made through-the front of the roll to said core. These cuts are preferably two in number and .are made at an obliqueangle with the sides .of the roll, their inner ends terminating at the center line of the' roll, measuring between its sides, but at a distance apart of approximately a quarter of an inch in the direction of the rolls height. This leaves an unsevered portion or neck 6,

which can be easily torn through in said di rection, owing to the fact thatthe fibers of the paper run in such direction and can be much more'readily torn apart than broken across.

One of the great difficulties always found in connection with the feeding of sheets of paper from a pile thereof occurs from the adhesion resulting fromthe'accumulations of static electricity. The same difficulty is found to exist in connection with toilet-paper. The terminal edge of each succeeding sheetsection will cling so closely to the roll as to render it almost impossible to be found and seized. \Vhat I have done is to make provision for causing ea Lh sheet-section to automatically become separated from the remainder of the roll and assume a position which will permit the formers terminal edge to be easily grasped. lVhile this has been attempted before. it has never been so perfectly accomplished as by means of my invention.

By having the kidney-shaped roll 1 supported by its core 2 in the position shown in Fig. 1 its terminal sheet-section 10 hangs with its free end below the roll and with its upper end passing'up over the roll and down to the neck 6 by which such sheet is joined to the remainder of the paper. Thisterminal sheet is also bound to the roll by the strips 3, gummed to its edges and to the edges of the other sheetsections and also to the core 2. The function of said strips is to hold the diiferent layers of paper in place both in the direction of their length and from bellying outwardly instead '..of remaining in the concave shape desired,

for without such fastening dev ce the front layers of the roll would have nothing to preoutermost layer from the remainder of the roll at the said side of the latter moves the tinned, its neck 6 is torn through and itself removed, leaving the leading end of the succeeding sheet standing in a vertical position. The said leading end being then wholly unsupported, immediately drops downward into the position of the terminal sheet 10. (Illustrated .in Fig. 1.)

In addition to overcoming all danger from static electricityniy arrangement further insures that there shall be no clinging fibers of paper or folded edges to interfere with the end of a terminal sheet from falling by gravity. into the position shown.

The fixture best adapted for supporting the roll inthe form and position shown in Fig. 1 forms the'subject-matter 0f mypa'tent issued December 30, 1902, No. 717,1H.

In the construction illustrated by Fig. 3 the concavity or'crescent shape of the roll is made so deep that the separation of each sheet-section from the remainder of the roll brings the freshly-torn end of the following sheet-section fully two inches away from its original position.

What I claim as my invention, and for which I desire Letters Patent, is as follows, to wit:

1. Aroll of toilet-paper in partially-severed sections, all the lines of severance being at the same part of the roll, and the't'ace of the'roll at such part being substantially concave, substantially as described.

2. A roll of toiletjiaperin partially-severed sections, all the lines of severance being at the same part of the roll, and the face of the roll at such part being substantially concave, in combination with means for removably securing together in such pal-tall the sheet-sections at one side of the lines of severance, substantially as described.

3. A roll of toilet-paper in partially-severed sections, all the lines of severance bein g at the same part of the roll, in combination with means "for removably holdingtogether all the ends of the sheet=sections at the advanced side of the lines of severance, substantially as de-' scribed.

4'. A roll of toilet-paper in partially-severed sections. all the lines of severance'being at the same part of the roll, in combination with a supporting-core within the roll, and means held by said core for removably holding together all the ends of the sheet-sections at the advanced side of the lines'of severance, substantially as described.

5. A roll of toilet-paper in partially-severed sections, all the lines of severance being at the same part of the roll, and the roll at said part with a supporting-core within the roll, and means held by said core for removably securing in such concave position all the ends of the sheet-sections at one side of the linesof severance. substantially as described.

' 6. A' roll of toilet-paper in partially-severed sections, all the lines of severance being at the same part of the roll, and the roll at such part being substantially concave, in combination with a square of pasteboard within said roll curved to correspond thereto, and strips or tapes gummed to said pasteboard and to the side edges of all the ends of the sheet-sections at one side of the lines of severance, SllbStfilP' tially as described. v I

7. .The combination of a roll of toilet-paper having a concave surface at one part, means for holding the said surface in its concave condition, and means for occasioning the severance of the outer layer of paper into sections when said layer is drawn taut across said con-- cavity.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing invention I have hereunto set my hand this 6th day of J une, 1903.

WILBUR M. DAVIS. Witnesses:

A. B. UPHAM, WENDELL W. CHASE.

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