Patent ID: 6302350
Filing Date: 2001-10-16
Classification: A47K

Abstract:
A toilet tissue dispenser comprising:a hollow housing including vertically oriented front, back and opposing side walls, and a lower, first shelf to provide a stop on which a toilet paper roll, which generally has opposing, parallel faces perpendicular to a cylindrical outer boundary and a central axis, can rest, with the central axis of the toilet paper roll essentially parallel with the front and back walls of the housing;a set of opposing, internally facing, vertically oriented side groove tracks at least in an upper, front portion of the side walls;an upper front door mounted in said set of groove tracks in the side walls of said housing, which can ride upwardly and downwardly in said set of groove tracks between open and closed positions, so that, when the upper front door is open, multiple toilet paper rolls can be inserted into and stacked, one on top of and in contact with one another in, and with a lowest toilet paper roll resting on the lower shelf of, said housing; anda lower front notch opening in each of the side walls above the lower shelf of said housing to allow the lowest toilet paper roll to be grasped on the opposing faces of the lowest toilet paper roll and removed therefrom, whereupon a succeeding toilet paper roll from inside said housing drops down into place upon the lower shelf;the toilet tissue dispenser further including:a set of opposing, internally facing, vertically oriented side groove tracks in a lower, front portion of the side walls; anda lower front door in said housing which rides within the set of opposing, internally facing, vertically oriented side groove tracks in the lower, front portion of the side walls below the upper front door and which extend down through the lower front notch openings and down to the lower shelf;wherein the lower front door in said set of lower side groove tracks can be moved between a closed position to an open position to remove the lowest toilet paper roll from the lower shelf by inserting a user's hand through the lower front notch openings in said housing to grasp the opposing faces of the lowest toilet paper roll and remove the lowest toilet paper roll therefrom.