Patent ID: 7571670

Claim:
A device for dispensing and cutting a roll of web material, comprising: a housing having a dispensing opening; a roll carrier within said housing rotatably carrying a roll of web material to be dispensed; a hollow rotatable cutting drum having a longitudinal slot on an external periphery thereof, said web material being wound part way around said cutting drum; plural cutting blades within said drum and slidable within said slot; and a mechanism structured and arranged to move said plural cutting blades into and out of said slot as said cutting drum rotates; and an adjustment mechanism that manually adjusts a distance between at least two of said plural cutting blades in a longitudinal direction of said slot to adjust a size of a tail remaining on a next sheet of web material to be dispensed through said dispensing opening, wherein said adjustment mechanism is a moveable cutting blade that is connected to one of first and second stationary cutting blades.