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US 4,186,633 AGranted
Apparatus for dispensing sheets of web material of predetermined length
AssigneeApura GmbH
InventorsManfred Baumann, Walter Besserer
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Abstract
A dispenser for sheets of web material, such as paper towels, from a supply roll, including a housing, means for holding a supply roll of the web material, and means for separating a sheet of the web from the supply roll operable in response to a user pulling the sheet from the housing and arranged to present at least a portion of the leading edge of the web ready for a user to seize for the dispensing of a further sheet as a direct result of the user pulling the previous sheet from the dispenser.
Claims16
An apparatus for dispensing sheets of web material of predetermined length from a supply of the web material comprising:
- a housing;
- means for storing the supply of web material in the housing,
- separating means comprising a bladed roller having thereon a blade having a width at least equal to the width of the web material arranged in the housing and operable in response to a user of the apparatus pulling from the housing the free end of web material in the storing means, to separate a sheet of the web material from the remainder and to leave at least a portion of the leading edge of the remainder of the web available to be gripped by a subsequent user,
- conveying means arranged to engage the web over a part of its width,
- non-positive drive means operable between the bladed roller and the conveying means, and
- a pressure device arranged to urge the web into engagement with the conveyor means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.