Patent ID: 6328246
Filing Date: 2001-12-11
Classification: A47K

Abstract:
A holder for rolls of web-shaped materials, said holder comprising a shaft intended to be inserted into a centre hole of a roll, so that the roll can rotate around the shaft for unrolling a web-shaped material, the shaft is provided with at least one resilient member in the form of a leaf spring having one end attached to the shaft and having a free portion which in an unloaded position projects radially from the shaft for increasing a radial dimension thereof, said resilient member is able to be brought to spring towards the spindle, wherein the one end of the leaf spring that is connected to the shaft is received in a passage in the shaft inside an enveloping surface of the shaft and is provided with a locking element for engaging with a corresponding locking device on the shaft, so that the leaf spring is locked in axial direction on the shaft;the shaft is provided with a recess into which the free portion of the leaf spring is at least partly received inside the enveloping surface of the shaft; andthe free portion of the leaf spring is substantially spoon-shaped and a convex outside surface of the spoon forms a contact surface against an interior surface of the centre hole of the roll.