US 2025/0049271 A1Published application

Toilet Paper Dispenser

AssigneeBradley Corporation

InventorsAxel Koentopp, Pablo Rohrssen, Mark A. Meyer

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Abstract

A toilet paper dispenser includes a housing, an inner unit, and a revolver assembly. The housing includes a top wall, a bottom wall, first and second sidewalls, a rear wall, and a door. The inner unit includes a first wall with first track and a second wall with a second track. Each track is configured to receive an end of a spindle of an upper roll and a spindle of a lower roll. The revolver assembly includes a first plate between the first wall and the first sidewall, a second plate between the second wall and the second sidewall, and a revolver unifier extending between the first and second plates. The revolver assembly rotates about a pivot axis to transition the lower roll from a dispensing location to a disposed location of the toilet paper dispenser and transition the upper roll from a storage location to the dispensing location.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A toilet paper dispenser comprising:

a housing including a top wall, a bottom wall, a first sidewall, a second sidewall opposite the first sidewall, a rear wall, and a door opposite the rear wall;
an inner unit disposed within the housing, the inner unit including:
a first wall adjacent the first sidewall of the housing;
a second wall adjacent the second sidewall of the housing;
a first track formed in the first wall;
and
a second track formed in the second wall, each track configured to receive an end of a spindle of an upper roll and a spindle of a lower roll;
and
a revolver assembly disposed within the housing and configured to hold the upper roll in a storage location and the lower roll in a dispensing location, the revolver assembly including:
a first plate disposed adjacent the first wall of the inner unit;
a second plate disposed adjacent the second wall of the inner unit;
a revolver unifier coupled to and extending between the first and second plates and configured to have the first and second plates being mirrored in orientation;
and
a pivot axis for the revolver assembly, the revolver assembly rotatably about the pivot axis to transition the lower roll from the dispensing location to a disposed location of the toilet paper dispenser and transition the upper roll from the storage location to the dispensing location when the lower roll is in an empty state;
and
an opening formed within the door to expose an interior of the housing and provide access to the dispensing location.

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A toilet paper dispenser comprising:

a housing including:
a first sidewall and a second sidewall disposed opposite each other;
and
a door pivotably coupled to at least one of the first sidewall and the second sidewall;
an inner unit disposed with the housing, the inner unit including:
a first sidewall adjacent the first sidewall of the housing, the first sidewall having a track formed therein and configured to receive a first end of a spindle of an upper roll and a first end of a spindle of the lower roll;
and
a second sidewall adjacent the second sidewall of the housing, the second sidewall having a track formed therein and configured to receive a second end of the spindle of the upper roll and a second end of the spindle of the lower roll;
a revolver assembly disposed within the housing, the revolver assembly including:
a first plate disposed adjacent the first sidewall of the inner unit;
a second plate disposed adjacent the second sidewall of the inner unit;
a revolver unifier coupled to and extending between the first and second plates;
and
a pivot axis, the revolver assembly rotatably about the pivot axis to transition the lower roll from a dispensing location to a disposed location of the toilet paper dispenser and transition the upper roll from a storage location to the dispensing location when the lower roll is in an empty state.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.