Dispenser for folded paper towels
AssigneeWyant & Company Limited
InventorMichel Morand
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Abstract
A dispenser for dispensing folded, interleaved towels. The dispenser has front and back walls joined by side walls and a bottom wall with a central paper towel dispensing slot therein extending between the side walls. The dispenser has supports on the inner surfaces of the front and back walls for partially supporting sub-stacks of a stack of paper towels carried in the dispenser. The supports reduce the weight of towels carried by the bottom sub-stack of towels making it easier to dispense the towels. The dispenser also has support surfaces at the bottom for supporting the bottom towel by narrow portions adjacent its front and back sides making it easier to dispense one towel at a time.
Claims12
A paper towel dispenser having a casing defining an interior space to hold a vertical stack of folded, interleaved, horizontal paper towels;
- the vertical stack adapted to be divided into sub-stacks;
- the casing having front and back walls, side walls joining the front and back walls, and a bottom wall closing the bottom of the casing with a central paper towel dispensing slot in the bottom wall extending between the side walls;
- and towel support means on the inner surfaces of the front and back walls and extending parallel to the bottom wall, for partially supporting sub-stacks of the paper towels by their sides so as to reduce the weight supported by the bottom sub-stack of paper towels resting on the bottom wall, the towel support means on both walls being staggered in height from the bottom wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.