US 5,054,676 AGranted

Toilet roll holder

AssigneesInax Corporation, Kazu Ban

InventorKazu Ban

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Abstract

A toilet roll holder includes a frame and a cover rotatably mounted to the frame by a rotary shaft. The toilet roll holder further includes a support mounted within the cover and supporting a toilet roll thereon, an operating plate located below and adjacent to a rear edge of the support and rotatably mounted to the cover by a shaft, a brake plate rotatably mounted within the frame by a shaft extending parallel to the shaft, and converging holding frames arranged on opposite sides of the brake plate. The operating plate is inserted into the holding frames through their upper ends when the cover is moved to a closed position, and is normally fit loosely between the brake plate and the holding frames so as to permit the toilet paper to freely pass between the operating plate and the brake plate. The operating plate is moved toward an inclined position to close to the brake plate when a free end of the toilet paper is pulled forwards, whereby the operating plate and the brake plate cooperatively sandwich the toilet paper therebetween to provide a counterforce necessary to cut the toilet paper.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A toilet roll holder for holding a toilet roll and permitting cutting of toilet paper unrolled therefrom, comprising:

a frame adapted to be attached to a wall and having a pair of projections,
a cover pivotally mounted between the projections of the frame and having a rear portion and a lower portion, said cover being movable between an open position and a using position,
a support attached to the rear portion of the cover so that the support rotationally supports the toilet roll thereon at the using position of the cover,
a brake plate pivotally mounted between the projections of the frame, said brake plate being located below the toilet roll,
an operating plate pivotally mounted on the lower portion of the cover, said operating plate, at the using position, being located under the support and situated at least adjacent to the brake plate and said operating plate, at the open position, being located above and away from the brake plate, and
holding means attached to the brake plate for slidably holding the operating plate relative to the brake plate so that at the using position, when toilet paper passing between the brake plate and the operating plate is pulled downwardly, the toilet paper is withdrawn without restriction, and when the toilet paper is pulled forwardly to incline the brake plate and the operating plate, the brake plate and the operating plate cooperate together to hold the toilet paper at forward ends thereof.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.