Patent ID: 7913598

Claim:
A wiping-material dispensing appliance, the appliance comprising: a housing with lateral flanges, the housing comprising a drum receiving a cutting blade, a reel of materials, a pressing roller or a guide roller arranged between the flanges, a format selector device for controlling a dispensing of formats of strips of materials in a ratio of one to two, the format selector device comprising a small format position and a large format position allowing emergence of the cutting blade from the drum at each revolution of the drum when the device is in the small format position and at every two revolutions of the drum when the device is in the large format position, the selector device acting and causing a relation between a set of pinions meshing with one another in the small-format position, and some pinions of the pinions being disengaged over a drum revolution in the large-format position to avoid emergence of the cutting blade from the drum, and the selector device positioned, on a lateral flange of the housing and comprising an operating lever including two fixed stops spaced apart and arranged on the flange, at the same time defining an angular spacing corresponding to a position of the lever in an upper or lower part, depending on a selected format corresponding to the small format and the large format, and a movement of said operating lever acting to cause an axial push on a pusher member guided on a hub receiving a first pinion and a second pinion of the pinions set up according to an axis Y, and, by function of position of the lever, the pusher member configured to cause connection between the second pinion and a third pinion to cause emergence of the cutting blade at each revolution of the drum and to cause retraction of the third pinion to cause emergence of the cutting blade once every two revolutions of the drum.