Patent ID: 8074549

Claim:
A drum for a wipe material dispensing machine comprising: a central longitudinal core that corresponds to a length of the drum and protrudes at core ends so that the core can be positioned relative to accommodating side plates of a housing of the machine, said drum being provided with a first end disc having an opening for movement of a blade holder and, at an opposite end of the drum, a second notched end disc with an offset accommodating support for an other end of the blade-holder and, between the first end discs and the second end disc the drum has a plurality of intermediate discs parallel to each other and with a predetermined pitch, said intermediate discs and the second end disc having notches that defines an area in which the cutting device is housed in order to enable device articulation and swiveling, said drum including one or more sleeves made of an elastomer material that are tensioned around the intermediate discs of said drum and wherein, in an original non-stressed state the one or more sleeves have a diameter that is substantially in excess of a diameter of the drum and have a certain deformation elasticity, and further comprising one or more means of tensioning the one or more sleeve(s) in order to push and keep the one or more sleeves in a bottom of the notches, and wherein insertion and accommodation of the one or more means in the notches causes elastic deformation of the one or more sleeves which grip upper edges of the intermediate discs and an end disc of the drum, thereby causing formation of folds between consecutive intermediate discs.