Patent ID: 9554678
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: A47K

Claim:
1. A dispenser, comprising: a housing defining an interior space for receipt of a stack of sheet products, wherein the housing comprises a front housing member and a rear housing member; a dispensing opening through which sheet products are dispensable; components forming a first hinge on a first side of the housing; and components forming a second hinge on a second side of the housing opposed to the first side of the housing; so that when the front housing member is mounted to the rear housing member about the first hinge, the front housing member is openable in a first rotational direction about the first hinge; and so that when the front housing member is mounted to the rear housing member about the second hinge, the front housing member is openable in a second rotational direction opposed to the first rotational direction about the second hinge; wherein the front housing member is openable relative to the rear housing member to provide access to fill the interior space with one or more stacks of sheet products, and wherein components of the first hinge or the second hinge comprise a first component attached to the front housing member that comprises a bore and a second component attached to the rear housing member that comprises a bore, and the dispenser further comprises a pivot pin selectively receivable in the bores of the first and second components to cooperate those components, wherein the pivot pin is selectively removable from the bores of the first and second components to release those components to move relative to one another.