Patent ID: 6267322
Filing Date: 2001-07-31
Classification: A47K,Y10T

Abstract:
Device for dispensing any flexible sheet material rolled up on a core, the device consisting of two parts: a stable part, the cradle, and a movable part, the pallet; the cradle being made up of constituents suitable for attaching it to a holding surface and accepting the roll, and of a cross bar, the lower jaw bar on the side of the roll away from the holding surface; the pallet being composed of two side arms rotatably attached to the sides of the cradle between the holding surface and the lower jaw bar with pivots and connected by two cross bars: the upper jaw bar and the press bar, the upper jaw bar at such a distance from the pivots that it can mesh with the lower jaw bar of the cradle, and the press bar somewhat farther from the pivots; in using the device, the free end of the sheet material is passed through the gap between the upper jaw bar and the press bar of the pallet in such a way that the upper jaw bar lies above and the press bar below the sheet, and then the roll is placed in the cradle; by pulling the sheet away from the roll the upper jaw bar is lifted from the lower jaw bar and thus any length of the sheet material can be unwound from the roll; by shifting the direction of the pull toward the lower jaw bar, the pressure on the press bar forces the upper jaw bar against the lower jaw bar and prevents further sheet material from unwinding from the roll thus, by increasing the pull on the sheet and holding the sheet near the press bar, any length of sheet material can be separated from the roll.