Dispensing and display device

A display and storage device for rolls of decorative sheet material comprising

• a body having a series of storage racks each adapted to support a single file column of rolls of decorative sheet material with their roll axes parallel and horizontal;
• a front display face on said body for each of said storage racks that substantially conceals its respective storage rack and has a width substantially equal to the width of its storage rack;
• said storage racks being arranged one above the other and the front display faces of said storage racks being in a substantially common vertical plane;
• said racks each having a depth greater than the depth but less than twice the depth of a roll of decorative material to be contained thereby whereby to support said rolls in a single file comumn as aforesaid;
• said front display face being formed with a dispensing opening for rolls of decorative sheet material adjacent the lower end of said storage rack whereby the bottom roll of said column can be withdrawn from said column;
• said storage racks each terminating in a support ledge adjacent said dispensing opening;
• said body being formed with a filling opening for admitting rolls of decorative sheet material to said storage rack;
• similar rolls of decorative material being loadable in each of said storge racks;
• said front display faces having a vertical extent substantially coextensive with the vertical height of their respective storage rack and a horizontal extent substantially coextensive with the lateral extent of their respective storage rack whereby said front display faces can display the full width of a substantial length of the decorative sheet material of the rolls of decorative sheet material in a column in their respective rack.