Improved Apparatus for Holding a Roll of Paper and Facilitating the Severance of Any Desired Length therefrom.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 17th June, 1896-Accepted, 12th Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Holding a Roll of Paper and Facilitating
the Severance of Any Desired Length therefrom.
1, DAVID SMITH of 26 Frog Lane Wigan in the County of Lancaster
Commercial Traveller in Paper and the like do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The novelties of this machine are the following:-A. B. is a curve, upon which
the spindle of the roll of paper rests; and is so constructed that the roll of paper,
falls by its own weight upon the cutter, C. The slight downward gradient in the
curve always keeps the roll of paper pressing against the cutter, whatever be the
diameter of the roll and thus enables the roll of paper to be cut from its largest
diameter to its smallest. D. E. is a slot in the side of the machine, and is placed
at a proper angle to correspond to the curves.
The cutter is a convex piece of steel with the convex surface touching the roll
of paper, and securely fixed in the above mentioned slot.
Dated this Sixteenth day of September 1895.
Improved Apparatus for Holding a Roll of Paper and Facilitating
the Severance of Any Desired Length therefrom.
I DAVID SMITH of 68 Diccouson Street (formerly of 26 Frog Lane) Wigan,
in the County of Lancaster, Commercial Traveller in Paper and the like do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:—
The drawings referred to are those left with the Provisional Specification.
The novelties of this machine are the following:-A. B. is a curve, upon which
the spindle of the roll of paper rests; and is so constructed, that the roll of paper
falls by its own weight upon the cutter C. The slight downward gradient in the
curve always keeps the roll of paper, pressing against the cutter, whatever be the
diameter of the roll, and thus enables the roll of paper to be cut from its largest
diameter to its smallest. D. E. is a slot in the side of the machine and is placed
at a proper angle to correspond to the curves.
The cutter is a convex piece of steel, with the convex surface touching the roll
of paper, and securely fixed in the above mentioned slot..
The machine is composed of a wooden base, with cast-iron sides or frame,
which are screwed to the base, the knife being made of steel, and riveted
through a slot to either of the two castings, according to the width of the machine
required.
The sides of the machine forming a gradient the roll of paper, fixed on a wooden
axle and resting on either side, always falls against the convex shaped knife, and
thus enables the user to take any length of paper needed. The machine can be

page_text: made to stand upright on a counter, or to hang underneath a counter, by simply
reversing the castings, or to screw against a wall or wooden partition, each form
having the same gradient, knife and same principle all through only can be put in
different positions for convenience.
The pyramid form is simply one machine on the top of another holding a
narrower roll of paper, but this is nonessential.
Having now particularly described, and ascertained, the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is.
1st. The right to make a machine for holding roll paper having a gradient form
which allows the roll of paper to fall against the knife.
2nd. I claim the right to the principle of having a fixed knife, convex shaped
being the only one of its kind.
counter each form being
3rd. I claim the right to make the machine to stand upright on a counter, also
to fasten against a wall, and to hang underneath a
constructed on the same principle.
1000
DAVID SMITH.