Patent ID: 8875968

Claim:
A multi-use bag dispenser for roll mounted bags comprising: a planar base, said base having at least one mounting feature for attaching to either of a surface and a mounting system; a vertical bag constraining support, said support having a top end, a bottom end and being sized and shaped to control movement of a smaller size bag roll, said constraining support attached at said bottom end to said planar base; a bag roll support, said bag roll support being attached to said top end of said bag constraining support; first and second core guides, each of said core guides extending upwardly adjacent first and second ends of said bag roll support and being spaced apart by at least a width of a bag roll; at least one core entry guide, said entry guide disposed at an upper end of either of said first and second core guides and extending outwardly in a direction parallel to said long axis of said bag support for a first predetermined distance; first and second guide rails, said guide rails descending vertically from said entry guide to either of said first and second ends of said bag roll support and being centrally disposed between front and rear sides of said first and second core guides; a core pin, said core pin having a diameter sized to fit slidably within a bag roll mounted on a hollow core; said core pin being sized to fit between said first guide rail and said second guide rail; said core pin further having at least one central notch extending across a diameter of at least one end of said core pin, said notch being sized, shaped and disposed to fit slidably about either of said first guide rail and said second guide rail; at least one pair of primary bag roll retainers, said pair of primary bag roll retainers comprising a first side guard and a second side guard, said first and second side guards being mounted orthogonally to said first and second core guides, orthogonally to a long axis of said bag roll support, and being spaced apart by at least said width of said bag roll; said first and second side guards having inward facing angled brackets at their respective distal ends and being sized, shaped and disposed to constrain ejection of either of a full sized and said smaller size bag roll; and at least one snagging device, said snagging device being mounted orthogonally to said long axis of said bag roll support and disposed to engage either of a central portion and at least one chisel cut of a bag attached to said bag roll.