Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
  • B65H49/00—Unwinding or paying-out filamentary material; Supporting, storing or transporting packages from which filamentary material is to be withdrawn or paid-out
  • B65H49/02—Methods or apparatus in which packages do not rotate
  • B65H49/04—Package-supporting devices
  • B65H49/06—Package-supporting devices for a single operative package
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47K—SANITARY EQUIPMENT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TOILET ACCESSORIES
  • A47K10/00—Body-drying implements; Toilet paper; Holders therefor
  • A47K10/24—Towel dispensers, e.g. for piled-up or folded textile towels; Toilet-paper dispensers; Dispensers for piled-up or folded textile towels provided or not with devices for taking-up soiled towels as far as not mechanically driven
  • A47K10/32—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47K—SANITARY EQUIPMENT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TOILET ACCESSORIES
  • A47K10/00—Body-drying implements; Toilet paper; Holders therefor
  • A47K10/24—Towel dispensers, e.g. for piled-up or folded textile towels; Toilet-paper dispensers; Dispensers for piled-up or folded textile towels provided or not with devices for taking-up soiled towels as far as not mechanically driven
  • A47K10/32—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper
  • A47K10/34—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper dispensing from a web, e.g. with mechanical dispensing means
  • A47K10/36—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper dispensing from a web, e.g. with mechanical dispensing means with mechanical dispensing, roll switching or cutting devices
  • A47K10/3606—The cutting devices being motor driven
  • A47K10/3612—The cutting devices being motor driven with drive and pinch rollers
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T225/00—Severing by tearing or breaking
  • Y10T225/20—Severing by manually forcing against fixed edge
  • Y10T225/205—With feed-out of predetermined length from work supply
  • Y10T225/211—Manually operated feed-out mechanism

Definitions

• the present invention concerns a folded paper dispenser comprising a housing surrounding a paper magazine for a stack of a continuous folded paper web and provided with an outlet opening for dispensing a length of paper from said paper web and with a cutting element mounted in connection with said outlet opening.
• An advantage with a folded paper dispenser is that it requires a considerably smaller dimension between its back and front wall compared to a dispenser wherein the paper web is stored as a roll or reel, due to the relatively large dimension of paper rolls or reels used in such a dispenser. Further during transport and storing of paper rolls or reels there is quite a lot of waste of space.
• a dispenser according to the preamble is previously known.
• the outlet opening is positioned at the top of the housing and the paper web to be dispensed is led from the top of the stack to the outlet opening through a narrow passage between a back wall of the housing and a guiding plate and further through a narrow passage between another guiding plate and a pivot carrying the cutting element.
• the object of the present invention is to eliminate the above mentioned problems and to provide a dispenser suitable also for a smaller room. This is achieved with a folded paper dispenser wherein the paper web (3) to be dispensed is led from the bottom of the stack to the outlet opening (4) positioned at the bottom of the housing (1).
• a dispenser By means of such a dispenser the user can always tear off a desired length of paper from the paper web without causing any waste of paper sheets simultaneously as loading of a new stack of a folded paper web is very simple.
• the amount of stored paper web can be increased by increasing the height of the maga- zine.
• the dispenser is provided with a manually or electrically operable portioning mechanism between the paper magazine and the outlet opening, which portioning mechanism forms a nip through which the paper web is led.
• the portioning mechanism may be connected to a lever directly or via a gear for manually operating said portioning mechanism to receive a desired length of paper, to be torn off the paper web by means of the cutting element.
• the portioning mechanism is driven by an electric motor for operating said portioning mechanism to receive a desired length of paper , to be torn off the paper webby means of the cutting element.
• the portioning mechanism comprises a cutting drum provided with a cutting mechanism comprising said cutting element for cutting a predetermined length of paper from the folded paper web stored in the paper magazine and guided to the cutting drum by means of a cylinder or other member, each time the cutting drum is rotated one revolution.
• the stack of folded endless paper web to be inserted into the magazine can either be wrapped by paper or plastic or packed into a box, whereby one end of the folded paper web is fed from the wrapped stack or from the box to the nip between the press roll and the cutting drum, whereby the end of the paper web will come out of the dispenser opening by rotating the cutting drum.
• FIG. 1 shows a schematic side view of a first embodiment of a folded paper dispenser according to the invention
• Fig. 2 shows a schematic side view of a second embodiment of a folded paper dispenser according to the invention.
• Fig. 3 shows a schematic side view of a preferred embodiment of the invention.
• the dispenser shown in fig. 1 comprises a housing 1 surrounding a paper magazine 2 for storing a stack of a folded paper web 3 and provided with an outlet opening 4 for dispensing said paper web 3.
• a cutting element 5 is mounted in connection with the outlet opening 4, enabling a user to tear off a desired length of paper from the folded paper web 3.
• the dispenser is provided with a portioning mechanism 6, 7 between the paper magazine 2 and the outlet opening 4, forming a nip 8 through which the folded paper web 3 is led.
• the portioning mechanism 6, 7 is either manually or electrically operable.
• said portioning mechanism 6, 7 comprises two cylinders in contact with each other, whereby at least one of the cylinders is intended to be manually e.g. by means of a lever (not shown) connected directly or via a gear to said cylinder, or electrically, e.g. driven by an electric motor (not shown), rotated in order to portion a desired length of paper from the stack of folded paper web 3, which length of paper a user can tear off by means of the cutting element 5.
• the portioning mechanism 6, 7 comprises a cutting drum 6 provided with a cutting mechanism comprising said cutting element 5 for cutting a predetermined length of paper from the folded paper web 3 stored in the paper magazine 2 each time the cutting drum is rotated one revolution.
• Said cutting element 5 is preferably a toothed knife arranged to reciprocate between an inner retracted and an outer extracted position during each revolution of the cutting drum 6.
• the paper web 3 is led from the paper magazine 2 around a cylinder 7 being in contact with the periphery of the cutting drum 6 to a nip 8 between said cylinder 7 and the cutting drum 6 and further around said cutting drum 1 and out through the outlet opening 4 of the housing 1.
• the stacks of paper web can be packed quite tightly for instance during transport of the stack requiring about 20 % less space than paper rolls.
• the stack of folded endless paper web 3 to be inserted into the magazine 4 can be wrapped by paper or plastic or alternatively the stack can be packed into a box.

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• Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
• Public Health (AREA)
• Folding Of Thin Sheet-Like Materials, Special Discharging Devices, And Others (AREA)
• Containers And Packaging Bodies Having A Special Means To Remove Contents (AREA)
• Handling Of Sheets (AREA)

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