IMPROVEMENTS IN HOLDERS FOR PAPER IN THE ROLL
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Herbert Jones Fitch of 30 Bury Street in the City of
London for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN HOLDERS FOR PAPER IN
THE ROLL
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Herbert Jones Fitch at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th August 1883.
HERBERT JONES FITCH of 30 Bury Street in the City of London,
MENTS IN HOLDERS FOR PAPER IN THE ROLL"
"IMPROVE
My Invention relates to apparatus wherein a continuous roll of paper coiled on
a reel or coro is mounted to revolve in bearings of a frame in such manner that
the roll may be readily uncoiled and lengths of paper detached as required. In
order to facilitate the detaching of the paper, it has been heretofore necessary to
perforate the roll at certain intervals, but this is objectionable, both on account
of the expense and because it precludes the user from varying the sizes of the
lengths of paper.
My Invention has for its object to obviate theso objections and also to provide
for keeping the roll of paper clean. To this end my Invention consists in
furnishing the frame in which the roll is supported with a straight edge, bar, or
equivalent device placed either above or beneath the roll and resting against the
same and hinged or pivoted so as to be thrown out of the way when a fresh roll is
being placed in the frame. This straight edge or bar may be weighted or be kept
in contact with the roll of paper by means of springs and it may form the lid or
sliding door of a box or container. In the latter case the roll would be mounted
to revolvo in bearings in the container where it would be protected from being
Boiled and the paper would be led out between the edge of the box and the lid
or door.
In order to facilitate the withdrawal of the paper the same may be led between
pairs of friction rollers which, when a box or container is used, may be situated,
the one on the box opening, and the other on the lid, the paper. being drawn

page_text: through these rollers when the lid is closed. When no container is used a single
roller journalled in end brackets would be employed, one of the rollers in both
cases constituting the straight edge.
The straight edge or bar, whether a roller be employed or not, may also be made
to close on or recede from the paper at certain intervals according to the length of
the pieces desired, by being suitably connected with the axis of the roll.
Instead of employing a straight edge or bar capable of being moved away from
the roll, the latter may be so arranged as to be capable of being withdrawn from
the straight edge which would in this case be fixed. A convenient method of
mounting the roll in this case would be to journal it in end brackets having
elongated slots provided with springs which would press the roll up against the
straight edge, tho core on which the paper is coiled having a handle hung to it for
drawing the roll away from the straight edge in uncoiling the paper.
The straight edge may itself be a flat spring of suitable form adapted to press
on the paper with sufficient force to enable the paper to be torn off, but to yield to
enable the paper to be drawn off the roll, and may have either a. plain. or A
serrated or wavy edgo."
In use the straight edge or bar would serve to check the uncoiling of the roll
and would enable pieces of paper of various lengths to be detached with facility
from unperforated rolls.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Herbert Jones Fitch in the Patent Office on the 16th February
1884.
HERBERT JONES FITCH of 30 Bury Street in the City of London "IMPROVE-.
MENTS IN HOLDERS FOR PAPER IN THE ROLL,"
My Invention relates to apparatus wherein a roll of paper coiled on a reel or
core is mounted to revolve in a frame in such manner that the roll may be readily
uncoiled and lengths of paper torn off straight across the strip of any size required.
In order to facilitate the tearing off of pieces of paper from the strip, it has been
heretofore usual to perforate the strip of paper transversely at certain intervals,
but this is objectionable, both on account of the expense, and because it precludes
the user from varying the sizes of the lengths of paper torn off
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My Invention has for its object to obviate these objections, and to this end it
consists in furnishing the frame in which the roll is supported with a straight edge,,
bar, or equivalent device placed either above or beneath the roll and resting"
against the same and hinged or pivoted so as to be thrown out of the way when a
fresh roll is being placed in the frame and when the paper is about to bo drawn off.
This straight edge or bar may be weighted or be kept in contact with the roll of.
paper by means of springs. Instead of employing a straight edge or bar capable
of being moved away from the roll, the latter may be so arranged as to be capable
of being withdrawn from the straight edge which would in this case be fixed, the
roll being held up to it by springs. In use, the straight edge or bar serves to
check the uncoiling of the roll and enables the unperforated strip to be readily
torn straight across for the purpose of detaching pieces of paper of various lengths.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a face view, and Figure 2. a-side view with one of the checks
removed of one form of holder in which the straight edge is movable and
presses on the roll of paper by its own weight. Figure 8 is a similar view of a
modification in which the straight edge is also movable and is pressed up to tho
roll by springs. Figure 4 is a similar view of the arrangement in which the
straight edge is fixed and the roll is held up to it by springs. Figure 5 shows the
same arrangement reversed, the roll pressing upon the straight edge by its own
weight without the use of springs. The same letters of reference indicate the same
parts in all the figures.
A is the roll of paper coiled on a wooden core or bobbin a as usual through
which an iron rod a¹ is passed and projects at the ends to form journals for the
roll to turn upon. The frame of the holder is formed of a metal back plate B
and two metal cheek plates B¹ having grooves b in their inner faces to receive the
journals at which are slipped in at the open ends b¹ of the grooves. c is the
straight edge against which the paper is torn. In figures 1 and 2 it is formed on
the odge of a flap C pivoted loosely at c' in the cheeks B¹. This flap is a casting
sufficiently heavy to cause the paper to tear off along the line of pressure of the
more or less acute edgo c when the strip is seized by one side near the straight
edge and pulled upwards against it. The grooves b are curved approximately to
an arc struck from the pivots c¹ and the straight edge is at such radius from
its pivots that it will always press directly towards the centre of the roll
notwithstanding the varying size of the latter. The uncoiling of the paper is
checked by the circumference of the roll pressing against the back plate B. To
uncoil the paper it is necessary to lift the flap C, seize the end of the paper, draw

page_text: it out the desired length and let the flap again press upon it previous to tearing off
the piece as above mentioned.
In the modification shown in Figure 3 the arrangement is reversed, the flap C
being pivoted beneath the roll and held up to it by a spring d of any form coiled
upon a pin upon which the flap pivots or the spring may be otherwise arranged.
The action is the same as in the previous arrangement.
In figure 4 C is a fixture and the roll is pressed up against its edge c by springs f
attached to C and to rings slipped on the journals a¹ between the ends of the roll
and the check plates B'. In this case the roll does not press against the back
plate B and the groove 6 open out at 6 for the insertion of the journals a².
b
In figure 5 the roll presses on the straight edge by its own weight merely. In
either case the end of the strip may be readily found and seized by first turning
the roll partly backwards and it may then be uncoiled by drawing it outwards and
away from the straight edge and torn off by pulling one side of it directly against
the straight edge.
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Having described. the nature of the said Invention and the manner of performing.
the same I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the
hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is.
1 The combination and arrangement of a holder or frame, a roll of paper
journalled in guide grooves therein as described and a movable straight edged plate
or flap pressing against the roll by its own weight or by springs substantially as
and for the purpose specified.
2nd The combination and arrangement of a holder or frame, a roll of paper
--journalled.in .guide.grooves.therein..ns. described and.a.fixed..straight edged plate.
against which the roll is pressed by springs or by its own weight substantially as:
shown and described.