CA2000609A1 - Toilet tissue dispenser with automatic releasing of spent roll and charging of new roll - Google Patents
Toilet tissue dispenser with automatic releasing of spent roll and charging of new rollInfo
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- CA2000609A1 CA2000609A1 CA 2000609 CA2000609A CA2000609A1 CA 2000609 A1 CA2000609 A1 CA 2000609A1 CA 2000609 CA2000609 CA 2000609 CA 2000609 A CA2000609 A CA 2000609A CA 2000609 A1 CA2000609 A1 CA 2000609A1
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Abstract
TITLE
TOILET TISSUE DISPENSER WITH AUTOMATIC RELEASING
OF SPENT ROLL AND CHARGING OF NEW ROLL
APPLICANT
Lloyd Walter MacLean INVENTOR
Lloyd Walter MACLEAN
ABSTRACT
A dispensing station for toilet paper rolls consists of straddled rollers upon which the toilet paper roll rests, the rollers spaced apart a sufficient distance so as to provide space between the rollers larger than the diameter of a core tube upon which the toilet paper is rolled. Immedia-tely above the dispensing station aforesaid a leverage mechanism is provided, under bias, to provide blockage for a plurality of toilet rolls mounted in the space above. When the toilet roll in the dispensing station is exhausted, the spent core automatically ejects through the aperture defined by the roller and by actuating the lever mechanism the lowest roll in the storage station is allowed to pass into the dispensing station for use.
TOILET TISSUE DISPENSER WITH AUTOMATIC RELEASING
OF SPENT ROLL AND CHARGING OF NEW ROLL
APPLICANT
Lloyd Walter MacLean INVENTOR
Lloyd Walter MACLEAN
ABSTRACT
A dispensing station for toilet paper rolls consists of straddled rollers upon which the toilet paper roll rests, the rollers spaced apart a sufficient distance so as to provide space between the rollers larger than the diameter of a core tube upon which the toilet paper is rolled. Immedia-tely above the dispensing station aforesaid a leverage mechanism is provided, under bias, to provide blockage for a plurality of toilet rolls mounted in the space above. When the toilet roll in the dispensing station is exhausted, the spent core automatically ejects through the aperture defined by the roller and by actuating the lever mechanism the lowest roll in the storage station is allowed to pass into the dispensing station for use.
Description
2~0Q609 This invention relates to a novel toilet tis9ue dispenser with automatic release of a spent core tube and the subsequent infusion of a full roll of toilet tissue into the operative dispensing position.
Particularly in domestic applications, and in some but not all commercial establishments, toilet tissue is available for use in the form of a continuous roll of tissue perforated into panels that may be torn from the roll, and the tissue roll is wound on a laminated carboard cylinder that acts as a core - 0 tube.
It is not infrequent that the last person to use the roll does not have sufficient tissue available. It is unsiqhtly to leave full rolls scattered around the closet.
I have conceived of a dispenser which houses a plurality of full toilet rolls and locates one in a dispensing position -for periodically dispensing tissue panels for rip off at the `
perforations. When that roll is exhausted, the core tube falls out from the operative location and by a simple leaver a new roll is positioned into the operative location for continuous 20 use. ~-The invention therefore achieves a toilet tissue -dispenser for dispensing from a dispensing station continuous -sheet panels of tissue paper that are helically wound on a cylindrical core tube to constitute a roll of tissue paper, the dispenser comprising: ;-(a) support means for carrying the toilet roll in the dispensing station the support means defining an aperture sized larger than the length and the diameter of a spent core tube;
(b) a storage region communicating with the dispensing station and adapted to store at least one additional toilet roll above the station and including means extend-ing into the storage region at an elevation above said station so as to engage with said additional roll and to retain said additionional roll in said storage region;
(c) means for moving said holding means out of engagement with said additional roll permitting said additional roll to fall in said dispensing station.
2~ ;09 Particularly, the dispenser in its preferred embodiment has spatially disposed cylindrical members that de~ine an opening through which the tissue sheets travel and the same are disposed at a distance from each other slightly greater than the diameter of the cylindrical core whereby to allow the cylindrical core, on exhaustion, of a playing out roll of tissue paper to fall through and to leave the dispensing station vacant for insertion of an additional roll. The additional roll in the preferred embodiment is inserted into the dispensing station by simplistically pulling a leaver by an activating handle, the leaver having means for engaging the additional roll but on activation by the handle causing the leaver to dis-engage from the additional roll and allowing -said additional roll to enter into the dispensing station.
The invention will now be described by way of example and reference to the accompanying drawings in which. -~
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the housing of the invention.
Figure 2 is a top plan view.
Figure 3 is a bottom plan view. --Figure 4 is a front elevational view. -; -~
Figure 5 is a side elevational view. ~ ~-Figure 6 is a sectional view along line VI-VI of figure Figure 7 is a similar view to that of figure 6 showing a loading sequence.
Figure 8 is a (section along lines VIII-VIII of figure ~- -6).
Referring to figures 1 through 3, a dispenser 10 according to the invention includes a cabinet 12 with vertical slanted side walls 13, a removable top 14 and a flat back 15 that terminates through an upper apron to form at its upper margin an artistic scroll 16 defining mounting apertures 17.
The lower edge of the back descends below a flat bottom 18 as a flat lower apron 19 defining mounting apertures 16.
In order to hold magaæines and other reading material, the front 20 is formed as a pair of tiered open top pockets 21 and 22.
2~Q609 Referring to figures 3 through 7, the rear of each pocket 21 and 22 is closed off by a vertical inner panel 24 that separates the pockets 21 and 22 from a plenum 26 which is defined by the inner panel 24, the back 15, and the side walls 13. This plenum 26 carries a lever dispensing station 27 and an upper storage region 28 for several tissue rolls 30 and 31 respectively.
The dispenser station 27 consists of two cylindrical rollers 31 and 32 mounted horizontally between the side walls 13. The rollers have a mandrel 34 at either end which extends into a supporting slot 35 mounted in the side walls. The rollers 31 and 32 are spaced apart a distance D which is large enough to allow discharge of a spent core R, as will become apparent.
The tissue roll 30 rests on the rollers 31 and 32 in the dispensing station 27 and plays out as continuous tissue panels through an accommodating dispenser aperture 37 defined by the bottom 18.
On the back wall 15 above the dispensing station 27, is a lever mechanism 40 for releasing the immediately juxtaposed roll 31 into the dispensing station 27 after the dispensing roll 30 is exhausted and its core R is discarded as shown in figure 6.
Referring to figures 6, 7, and 8, rolls 31 are placed into the storage region 28 as shown and the lower roll 31 rests on the lever mechanism 40 and is spaced away from the dispensing roll 30 thereunder so as to allow the dispensing roll 30 to be clear and to freely roll on the roller 31 and 32 during playout. The lever mechanism 40 therefore consists of a tranverse bar 41 pivotally mounted into a recessed 42 defined by the back 15. The lateral bar 41 has two protruding fingers 43 which extend forward, as more clearly seen in figures 6 and 7 and when in the rest position of figure 7 holds the immediately juxtaposed roll 31 away from the lower roll 30 located in the dispensing station 27. At one end of the lateral arm 41 the same extends forward along one side 13 as a load member and a coil spring 45 extends from the load '.,, ,,", " , . .
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member 44 with one attached to the distal end of the load member 44 and the other securely mounted by a securing means such as a screw 46 into the side wall 13.
At the opposite end and near the opposite side wall 13 the cross arm 41 extends as an effort on arm 47 and terminates at a pivot point 48 located on its distal end. From the pivot point 48, a hanger rod 49 extends through the aperture 37 between the two rollers 31 and 32.
By pulling the rod 49 downward in the direction 10 indicated by the arrow in figure 6, the roll of toilet tissue:
31 is released by the arms 42 and descends pursuant to the arcuate arrows A, as shown in phantom, into the dispensing station to become roll 30 resting on the guide rollers 31 and 32. ~ :
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Particularly in domestic applications, and in some but not all commercial establishments, toilet tissue is available for use in the form of a continuous roll of tissue perforated into panels that may be torn from the roll, and the tissue roll is wound on a laminated carboard cylinder that acts as a core - 0 tube.
It is not infrequent that the last person to use the roll does not have sufficient tissue available. It is unsiqhtly to leave full rolls scattered around the closet.
I have conceived of a dispenser which houses a plurality of full toilet rolls and locates one in a dispensing position -for periodically dispensing tissue panels for rip off at the `
perforations. When that roll is exhausted, the core tube falls out from the operative location and by a simple leaver a new roll is positioned into the operative location for continuous 20 use. ~-The invention therefore achieves a toilet tissue -dispenser for dispensing from a dispensing station continuous -sheet panels of tissue paper that are helically wound on a cylindrical core tube to constitute a roll of tissue paper, the dispenser comprising: ;-(a) support means for carrying the toilet roll in the dispensing station the support means defining an aperture sized larger than the length and the diameter of a spent core tube;
(b) a storage region communicating with the dispensing station and adapted to store at least one additional toilet roll above the station and including means extend-ing into the storage region at an elevation above said station so as to engage with said additional roll and to retain said additionional roll in said storage region;
(c) means for moving said holding means out of engagement with said additional roll permitting said additional roll to fall in said dispensing station.
2~ ;09 Particularly, the dispenser in its preferred embodiment has spatially disposed cylindrical members that de~ine an opening through which the tissue sheets travel and the same are disposed at a distance from each other slightly greater than the diameter of the cylindrical core whereby to allow the cylindrical core, on exhaustion, of a playing out roll of tissue paper to fall through and to leave the dispensing station vacant for insertion of an additional roll. The additional roll in the preferred embodiment is inserted into the dispensing station by simplistically pulling a leaver by an activating handle, the leaver having means for engaging the additional roll but on activation by the handle causing the leaver to dis-engage from the additional roll and allowing -said additional roll to enter into the dispensing station.
The invention will now be described by way of example and reference to the accompanying drawings in which. -~
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the housing of the invention.
Figure 2 is a top plan view.
Figure 3 is a bottom plan view. --Figure 4 is a front elevational view. -; -~
Figure 5 is a side elevational view. ~ ~-Figure 6 is a sectional view along line VI-VI of figure Figure 7 is a similar view to that of figure 6 showing a loading sequence.
Figure 8 is a (section along lines VIII-VIII of figure ~- -6).
Referring to figures 1 through 3, a dispenser 10 according to the invention includes a cabinet 12 with vertical slanted side walls 13, a removable top 14 and a flat back 15 that terminates through an upper apron to form at its upper margin an artistic scroll 16 defining mounting apertures 17.
The lower edge of the back descends below a flat bottom 18 as a flat lower apron 19 defining mounting apertures 16.
In order to hold magaæines and other reading material, the front 20 is formed as a pair of tiered open top pockets 21 and 22.
2~Q609 Referring to figures 3 through 7, the rear of each pocket 21 and 22 is closed off by a vertical inner panel 24 that separates the pockets 21 and 22 from a plenum 26 which is defined by the inner panel 24, the back 15, and the side walls 13. This plenum 26 carries a lever dispensing station 27 and an upper storage region 28 for several tissue rolls 30 and 31 respectively.
The dispenser station 27 consists of two cylindrical rollers 31 and 32 mounted horizontally between the side walls 13. The rollers have a mandrel 34 at either end which extends into a supporting slot 35 mounted in the side walls. The rollers 31 and 32 are spaced apart a distance D which is large enough to allow discharge of a spent core R, as will become apparent.
The tissue roll 30 rests on the rollers 31 and 32 in the dispensing station 27 and plays out as continuous tissue panels through an accommodating dispenser aperture 37 defined by the bottom 18.
On the back wall 15 above the dispensing station 27, is a lever mechanism 40 for releasing the immediately juxtaposed roll 31 into the dispensing station 27 after the dispensing roll 30 is exhausted and its core R is discarded as shown in figure 6.
Referring to figures 6, 7, and 8, rolls 31 are placed into the storage region 28 as shown and the lower roll 31 rests on the lever mechanism 40 and is spaced away from the dispensing roll 30 thereunder so as to allow the dispensing roll 30 to be clear and to freely roll on the roller 31 and 32 during playout. The lever mechanism 40 therefore consists of a tranverse bar 41 pivotally mounted into a recessed 42 defined by the back 15. The lateral bar 41 has two protruding fingers 43 which extend forward, as more clearly seen in figures 6 and 7 and when in the rest position of figure 7 holds the immediately juxtaposed roll 31 away from the lower roll 30 located in the dispensing station 27. At one end of the lateral arm 41 the same extends forward along one side 13 as a load member and a coil spring 45 extends from the load '.,, ,,", " , . .
i,,,,,l` `.,~ ,", ~, ~ , , . '" .
member 44 with one attached to the distal end of the load member 44 and the other securely mounted by a securing means such as a screw 46 into the side wall 13.
At the opposite end and near the opposite side wall 13 the cross arm 41 extends as an effort on arm 47 and terminates at a pivot point 48 located on its distal end. From the pivot point 48, a hanger rod 49 extends through the aperture 37 between the two rollers 31 and 32.
By pulling the rod 49 downward in the direction 10 indicated by the arrow in figure 6, the roll of toilet tissue:
31 is released by the arms 42 and descends pursuant to the arcuate arrows A, as shown in phantom, into the dispensing station to become roll 30 resting on the guide rollers 31 and 32. ~ :
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Claims (5)
1. A toilet tissue dispenser for dispensing from a dispensing station continuous sheet panels of tissue paper that are helically wound on a cylindrical core tube to constitute a roll of tissue paper, the dispenser comprising:
(a) support means for carrying the toilet roll in the dispensing station the support means defining an aperture sized larger than the length and the diameter of a spent core tube;
(b) a storage region communicating with the dispensing station and adapted to store at least one additional toilet roll above the station and including means extending into the storage region at an elevation above said station so as to engage with said additional roll and to retain said additionional roll in said storage region; and, (c) means for moving said holding means out of engagement with said additional roll permitting said additional roll to fall in said dispensing station.
(a) support means for carrying the toilet roll in the dispensing station the support means defining an aperture sized larger than the length and the diameter of a spent core tube;
(b) a storage region communicating with the dispensing station and adapted to store at least one additional toilet roll above the station and including means extending into the storage region at an elevation above said station so as to engage with said additional roll and to retain said additionional roll in said storage region; and, (c) means for moving said holding means out of engagement with said additional roll permitting said additional roll to fall in said dispensing station.
2. The dispenser as claimed in claim 1 wherein the support means consists of a pair of laterally extending spatially disposed carrier means between which the sheet panels of tissue paper are adapted to traverse.
3. The dispenser as claimed in claim 2 wherein the storage region is superadjacent the dispensing station.
4. The dispenser as claimed in claim 1, 2, or 3, wherein said holding means consists of a lever mounted for travel in said storage region and having means for engaging said additional roll and handle means protruding from the storage means attached to the leaver means and adapted on movement of the handle means to activate the leaver traversing the leaver from engement with said additional roll whereby said additional roll falls into the dispensing station.
5. The dispenser as claimed in claim 1 or 3, wherein said holding means consists of a lever mounted for travel in said storage region and having means for engaging said additional roll and handle means protruding from the storage means attached to the leaver means and adapted on movement of the handle means to activate the leaver traversing the leaver from engement with said additional roll whereby said additional roll falls into the dispensing station and wherein the support means consists of a pair of laterally disposed cylindrical members carried by the dispenser and disposing a spaced therebetween through which the panels of tissue may be played out.
Priority Applications (1)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| CA 2000609 CA2000609A1 (en) | 1989-10-13 | 1989-10-13 | Toilet tissue dispenser with automatic releasing of spent roll and charging of new roll |
Applications Claiming Priority (1)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| CA 2000609 CA2000609A1 (en) | 1989-10-13 | 1989-10-13 | Toilet tissue dispenser with automatic releasing of spent roll and charging of new roll |
Publications (1)
| Publication Number | Publication Date |
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| CA2000609A1 true CA2000609A1 (en) | 1991-04-13 |
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Family Applications (1)
| Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
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| CA 2000609 Abandoned CA2000609A1 (en) | 1989-10-13 | 1989-10-13 | Toilet tissue dispenser with automatic releasing of spent roll and charging of new roll |
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1989
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