Patent ID: 6705564
Filing Date: 2004-03-16
Classification: B62B,B65H

Abstract:
A free standing, box like, thin walled dispenser having a narrow bottom wall, opposite side walls and opposite front and back walls and open at the top, said dispenser containing a single, freely spinning, floating supported spool (4) having a hub (10), opposite flanges (6) and a horizontal spinning axis (11) and containing a supply roll (3) made of a plurality of windings of a relatively thick walled, buckle free, hollow tube (28) with a length of at least 10 meters, a wall thickness of between about 0,5 mm and 1,5 mm and an outer diameter between about 2 mm and about 14 mm and fabricated from PA, PU, PE or PTFE or another plastic material with similar Young's modulus, and the supply roll has an inner diameter of at least about 5 times the outer diameter of the pneumatic tube; said flanges (6) having a diameter larger than the diameter of said supply roll, said flanges supporting said spool (4) within said dispenser by bearing against inwards projecting fixed bearing surfaces (7, 8) of said dispenser below and in front of said spool and provided in said front and bottom wall by detents in the outer face thereof; said dispenser having a passage opening (13) for the tube arranged such in said front wall with respect to said supply roll, that said tube extends above said spinning axis in a tangential direction from said supply roll to said passage opening such that the supply roll spins inside said dispenser when said tube is pulled from said supply roll through said passage opening during dispensing of said tube (28) such that the tube can be dispensed by unwinding from said supply roll without buckling or becoming messy; said open top of said dispenser allowing withdrawal of the complete spool from said dispenser.