Improvements in Apparatus suitable for Carrying Rolls of Toilet Paper
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 10th May, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 9th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 9th Mar., 1889
PROVISIONAL DE BOLL
Improvements in Apparatus suitable for Carrying Rolls of Toilet
Paper:
1, ERNEST HARMER SMITH of Crown Farm, Englefield Green, near Staines in
the County of Berks, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The axis of a roll of perforated toilet paper is commonly carried in a hanging frame,
the surface of the roll resting against a vertical surface, the friction when the paper
is puiled down tending to prevent rotation so that the sheets can be torn off.
This system has the disadvantage of the friction being variable according to the size
of the roll.
According to my invention I make the friction independent or practically so of the
size of the roll. When the paper is wound upon a stick I cause the ends of this stick
to move along guides or slots inclined towards the surface, against which the roll
rests. The guides or slots or the surface may, when necessary to equalize the friction
be curved and the surface may be corrugated or roughened.
Preferably-shoulders are turned on the ends of this so as to prevent jamining—or
metal spindles may be used.
Or in place of guiding the stick, two surfaces inclined to each other may be
employed the roll of paper being received between them, in which case the stick may
be dispensed with.
For unperforated paper a cutting or detaching apparatus is provided for severing
the sheets.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus suitable for Carrying Rolls of Toilet
Paper.
I, ERNEST HARMER SMITH of Crown Farm, Englefield Green, near Staines, in the
County of Berks, Engineer, 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 axis of a roll of perforated toilet paper is commonly carried in a hanging
frame the surface of the roll resting against a vertical surface, the friction when
the paper is pulled down tending to prevent rotation so that the sheets can be torn
off. This system has the disadvantage of the friction being variable according to the
size of the roll.
According to my invention I make the friction independent or practically so of the
size of the roll. When the paper is wound upon a stick I cause the ends of this stick
to move along guides or slots inclined towards the surface, against which the roll
rests. The guides or slots or the surface may, when necessary to equalize the friction.
be curved and the surface may be corrugated or roughened.
Preferably shoulders are turned on the ends of this so as to prevent jamming or 1
metal spindles may be used.
Or in place of guiding the stick, two surfaces inclined to each other may be
employed the roll of paper being received between them, in which case the stick may
be dispensed with.
For unperforated paper a cutting or detaching apparatus is provided for severing 2
the sheets.
In order that my said invention may be more fully understood and readily carried
into effect I will proceed to describe the drawings hereunto annexed.

page_text: hrough which the rods B pass. D is the roll of paper, the surface or
ests against the plate A.
WHICH Tways
Figure 3 is a side elevation of a similar apparatus but in this case the rods B B aro
urved.
In Figures 1 and 2 the rods B B are shown with enlargements B₁ B', at their upper
ends so that the axis cannot be removed until the roll is finished. These enlargements
may be locked to the rods in any convenient manner. Or the enlargements inay
orm.part of the rods and the axis C be so made as to be capable of being placed in
position between the rods B and there locked. Methods of doing this are shown in
Figures 4 to 9. Figure 4 is a longitudinal section, and Figure 5 an end view of an
axis formed of a metal tube whose ends C₁ Care hinged at C C² to the body
EE are spring catches which take into projections in the ends CC. The axis C
with the roll of paper upon it and with its ends open is placed between the
rods B B the ends CC are then shut down and are held by the catches E E so that
the axis cannot be removed until the roll is finished for the springs E E are covered
and cannot be got at.
Figure 6 and 7 are similar views of another modification. In this case two spring
clips FF are employed which are pushed along slots or holes in the axis (after
the latter is in position, their bent ends F1 F catching over shoulders as shown in
Figure 6 so that neither they nor the roll can be removed until the roll is finished;
as is seen two slightly different ways of doing this are shown in Figure 6.
Figures 8 and 9 are similar views of another modification. In this case the ends of
the axis C consist of two metal pins whose ends are secured by spring catches G Gas
shown in Figure S.
Figures 10 and 11 show a modified apparatus in which the rods B are dispensed
with, the two ends of the axis being slotted to receive lips upon the two side
plates H. These side plates are fixed to the back A, which however is not shown in
these Figures.
Figures 12 and 13 are similar views of another modification in which the ends of
the axis Care of reduced size and rest against the lips of the plates H. Figures 12×
and 13 show the same arrangement with the ends of the axis being formed of
metal pins.
Figures 14 and 15 show a modified form of apparatus in which the ends of
the axis are unsupported, the roll touching the casing or box along two lines
in place of only one, as hereinbefore described. The lower end of the back plate A
is provided with a serrated cutting edge A' and the end of the paper is led down
the mouth between the back and front plates as shown in Figure 15 by pressing
This arrangement is suitable for
the sheet over the serrated edge A¹ it is cut.
unperforated paper.
Figure 16 is an end view of a similar apparatus of a somewhat different form, the
end of the paper being led upwards instead of downwards to the serrated cutting
edge A¹.
Figures 17 and 18 are a front elevation and a transverse vertical section of
another modification. In this case the axis and method of supporting it are
5 similar to those described in connection with Figures 12 and 13, but a cutting
edge A is provided in the arrangement shown in Figures 14 and 15 except that in
place of the sheet passing around the lower end of the front plate as in those figures
à bar J is provided.
Figure 19 is a front elevation and Figure 20 a vertical transverse section of
O another modification which is similar to that shown at Figures 12 and 13 except
that the ends of the axis in place of being of wood of reduced size consist of two
metal pins.
Figure 21 is a vertical transverse section of another modification. In this case the
metal pins which form. the ends of the axis C run in slots in the side plates instead
5 of merely resting against lips upon it as described in connection with the former
Figures

page_text: 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
1. Apparatus suitable for carrying rolls of toilet paper in which the ends of the stick
upon which the paper is wound move in guides or slots inclined towards the surface
against which the roll rests substantially as described.
2. Apparatus suitable for carrying rolls of toilet paper in which the roll
is received between two surfaces inclined towards each other substantially as
described.
3. Apparatus suitable for carrying rolls of toilet paper substantially as described
and shown in the drawings.
Dated this 7th day of February 1889.