Holder for a roll of paper towels

A free standing portable holder for supporting conventional rolls of paper towelling which may be rolled on a hollow core center and means for facilitating gradual tearing off a sheet of paper towel from said roll by manually gripping a perpendicularly disposed edge of said paper towelling comprising, a pedestal base adapted to rest upon a horizontal surface, said pedestal base including upper and lower surfaces, separate parallel adjacent closely spaced sheet guide means extending upwardly from said upper surface of said base, each of said upstanding sheet guide means have oppositely disposed horizontally aligned arcuate cut-away portions to facilitate grasping of said paper towelling which is guided between said sheet guide means, said upper, pedestal surface including an arcuate slotted depression adapted to receive bottom extremities of said upstanding adjacent closely spaced parallel disposed sheet guide means, a pole secured to the upper surface of said base, said pole having a length greater than said hollow core extending upwardly from said base and having a diameter adapted to fit within the hollow core of said roll of paper towelling for supporting the latter with its axis normal to the upper surface of said base;

• a threaded bolt having a diameter less than said pole secured to the top of said pole along a linear axis, a cap which is free of any axially extending edge surface, said cap having an axial aperture greater than said bolt for positioning said cap on said threaded bolt and for seating on said upstanding pole, a knob having a diameter greater than said axial aperture in said cap which is screwed onto said threaded bolt to hold said cap in place, said cap including a lower surface zone provided with an arcuate undercut depression which is arranged to receive the upper extremities of said upstanding sheet guide means, said arcuate undercut depression in said cap and said upper surface of said base being spaced from said pole so that said guide means stands outwardly of an unused roll of towelling when placed in said holder, said free standing portable holder further includes paper towel roll impeding friction creating means spacedly arranged on the circumference of said upwardly extending pole and on the upper and lower surfaces of said base, said impeding means on the upper surface of said base having an outer zone deliminated by the circumference of an unused roll of towelling placed on said pole.