Dispensing assembly

An enclosure adapted to be mounted on a backboard having opposite end portions that may be supported on an easel, which enclosure is adapted for use with a cylindrical core having an axis, and a length of sheet material helically wound into a roll coaxially around the core, the roll having axially spaced end surfaces and the core having opposite projecting end portions projecting axially past said end surfaces;

• said enclosure including:
• an elongate front portion having a first longitudinally extending edge along the periphery of said front portion, said front portion comprising walls defining an elongate outwardly projecting, channel part of said front portion that is generally U-shaped in transverse cross section and has opposite ends, and end walls across the ends of said channel part, said end walls and channel part defining a chamber having an open side;
• an elongate rear portion comprising a rear wall having opposite ends, opposite first and second longitudinally extending edges along the periphery of said rear portion extending between said ends, and an attachment part along said second edge including means adapted to be releasably mounted on support members on one end portion of a said backboard;
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• means for mounting and releasably retaining said front portion on said rear portion in a closed position with said rear portion extending across the open side of said chamber and for affording manual separation of said rear portion from the open side of said chamber;
• said front and rear portions each including a journal surface portion at each of said ends, said journal surface portions at said ends of said front portion being opposed to the journal surface portions at the ends of said rear portion in the closed position of said front and rear portions to define sockets at said ends that are adapted to receive and journal the projecting end portions of the core with the roll in said chamber, and said journal surface portions being separated when said rear portion is separated from the open side of said channel to afford removal of said projecting end portions of the core from between said journal surface portions;
• said first edges of said walls being spaced to define an elongate opening parallel to said axis through which lengths of sheet material from said roll can be pulled from said roll when said front and rear portions are in said closed position;
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• said enclosure further including cutting means on said first edge of said front portion along said opening adapted to affording cutting a dispensed length of sheet material projecting through said opening from sheet material on the roll by pulling the dispensed length of sheet material into engagement with said cutting means.