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US 3,949,947 AGranted
Paper dispensing device
AssigneeNew World Container Corporation
InventorsRobertson Youngquist, Donald Green, Edward Stone Cohen
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AssigneeNew World Container Corporation
InventorsRobertson Youngquist, Donald Green, Edward Stone Cohen
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A dispensing device for a paper web adapted to be carried in a pocket, purse or the like for holding a supply of paper and enabling a desired quantity of such paper to be readily dispensed. The paper may be that type used for rolling your own cigarette, cleaning eyeglass lenses, making notes and the like which are normally difficult to carry without becoming folded, crumpled or otherwise unusable. The dispenser includes a tubular housing receiving a roll of paper including a paper web and core rotatably mounted on a tubular spindle with one end of the paper web extending out through a discharge slot. A resilient band extends through the tubular spindle and biases the roll of paper against the wall of the tubular housing to resist free rotation thereof for controlling the discharge of paper through the discharge slot. The tubular housing also includes an opening for receiving the finger of a person using the device to enable a desired quantity of paper to be discharged by moving the roll of paper away from the interior wall surface of the housing and rotating the roll slightly for circumferential feeding of the end of the paper a short distance out of the discharge slot, where the paper can then be pulled.
A dispensing device for flexible material wound into a roll and having a free end, said dispensing device comprising a tubular housing having a peripheral discharge opening, a spindle movable positioned in said housing, a roll of flexible material positioned around the spindle for relative movement with respect to said spindle whereby the free end of the material which is adapted to extend through the discharge opening can be easily unwound, and resilient means acting on said spindle to bias said spindle and roll toward the interior surface of the housing for frictionally resisting movement of the flexible material relative to the housing to prevent free unwinding of the flexible material from the roll.
A device for storing and dispensing paper such as cigarette paper, eyeglass lens cleaning paper and the like comprising a generally cylindrical tubular housing dimensioned for convenient reception in a user's pocket, purse or the like, said housing including a closed end and an open end, a removable cap on the open end of the housing, said housing including a longitudinally extending discharge slot in the peripheral wall thereof for receiving the free end of a paper web wound onto a core, a hollow spindle disposed within the housing and positioned within the core of the roll of paper for relative rotation of the core with respect to said spindle, a resilient member extending through the spindle and having its ends attached to the housing adjacent the periphery thereof for resiliently biasing the spindle and paper roll toward the interior surface of the housing for frictionally engaging the paper with the housing to resist unwinding of the paper from the paper roll.
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