Dispenser apparatus for sequentially dispensing web material from a plurality of coreless rolls of said web material, each said coreless roll comprised of a plurality of wound convolutions of said web material and having a central aperture defined by an innermost convolution, said apparatus comprising, in combination:
- a support including a housing having a dispensing opening;
- coreless roll holder means for holding a coreless roll, said coreless roll holder means including a frame, a first coreless roll support shaft connected to said frame at a first position on said frame, and a second coreless roll support shaft connected to said frame at a second position on said frame spaced from said first position, each said coreless roll support shaft for insertion into a central aperture of a coreless roll for supporting a coreless roll thereon;
- mounting means operatively associated with said support and said coreless roll holder means for alternatively locating said coreless roll holder means at either a first location wherein said first coreless roll support shaft is located for dispensing at said dispensing opening and said second coreless roll support shaft is not located at said dispensing opening and a second location wherein said second coreless roll support shaft is located for dispensing at said dispensing opening;
- locking means for retaining said coreless roll holder means at said first location until depletion of a coreless roll on said first coreless roll support shaft and responsive to depletion of a coreless roll on said first coreless roll support shaft to release said coreless roll holder means and allow movement of said coreless roll holder means to said second location under the influence of gravity to allow manual access at said dispensing opening to a coreless roll on said second coreless roll support shaft, said locking means including a lock element operatively associated with at least one of said coreless roll support shafts and movable relative thereto between a lock position wherein said lock element engages said support and locks said coreless roll holder means against movement from said first location to said second location and an unlock position wherein said lock element disengages from said support and permits movement of said coreless roll holder means under the influence of gravity to said second location from said first location, said lock element mounted for pivotal movement;
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- biasing means biasing said lock element toward said unlock position, said at least one of said coreless roll support shafts including a spindle and a mandrel slidably mounted on said spindle and engageable with said lock element when said coreless roll support shaft is positioned in the central aperture of a coreless roll to maintain said lock element in said lock position.