Patent ID: 8899508
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: A47K,B65H

Abstract:
1. A dispenser for web of absorbent paper, tissue or nonwoven material in the form of a roll, said dispenser comprising: a housing with a holder arrangement for receiving said roll, said holder arrangement providing a roll rotational axis about which said roll is arranged to rotate when dispensing said web, a drive roller extending in a direction substantially parallel with said roll rotational axis, said drive roller being adapted to abut said roll to control said dispensing of said web and to rotate substantially at the same peripheral speed as said roll when web is dispensed, and an engaging roller extending substantially parallel with said drive roller, wherein said drive roller and said engaging roller are arranged so as to define a dispensing passage therebetween for said dispensing of said web, and wherein said dispenser is adapted for a user to grasp, and pull on, a dispensing end of said web to dispense a length of web from said roll, wherein said roll being arranged to be biased against said drive roller by means of at least one spring to frictionally engage with said drive roller, and wherein said drive roller being arranged such that said dispensing end is adapted to be led from said roll over said drive roller, wherein said engaging roller causes said dispensing end to frictionally engage with said drive roller and said engaging roller in said dispensing passage such that said dispensing is controlled by an interaction between said dispensing end, said drive roller and said engaging roller, as said drive roller and said engaging roller are rotated by said dispensing end when said user pulls on said dispensing end, wherein said drive roller and said engaging roller each comprises large diameter longitudinal sections and small diameter longitudinal sections, each large diameter longitudinal section of the drive roller arranged between two small diameter longitudinal sections of the drive roller, and each large diameter longitudinal section of the engaging roller arranged between two small diameter longitudinal sections of the engaging roller, and wherein said drive roller and said engaging roller are arranged with the large diameter longitudinal sections of the drive roller offset from the large diameter longitudinal sections of the engaging roller such that a small diameter longitudinal section of said drive roller is opposite to a large diameter longitudinal section of said engaging roller and a large diameter longitudinal section of said drive roller is opposite to a small diameter longitudinal section of said engaging roller, and wherein said drive roller and said engaging roller are arranged at a distance from each other such that said dispensing passage defined between said rollers is undulated in the direction substantially parallel with said roll rotational axis.