US792409A - Paper-holder. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED JUN-E 13, 1905.

C. FISHER.

PAPER HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 18, 1904.

ill/1111111111 UNITED STATES Patented June 13, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES FISHER, OF OAK PARK, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO NORTHERN TISSUE PAPER MILLS, OF MILWVAUKEE, WVISCONSIN, A CORPORA- TION OF WISCONSIN.

' PAPER-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 792,409, dated June 13, 1905.

Application filed March 18, 1904. Serial No. 198,803.

To all 1071/0711, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CIIARLEs FISHER, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Oak Park, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper--Holders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

This invention relates to paper-holders in which the paper is wound in oval form for toilot and other uses. Its main objects are to provide a simple, inexpensive, and convenient fixture for holding and serving paper in this form, to prevent the unauthorized removal of rolls of paper from the fixture, and generally to improve the construction and operation of devices of this class.

It consists in certain novel features of construction and in the peculiar arrangement of parts hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings like letters designate the same parts in the several figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation and vertical section on theline 1 1, Fig. 2, of a paper-holder embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the same on the line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section on the line 3 3, Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is asimilar section on the line a 4, Fig. 1.

(L designates a wall-plate by which the holder or fixture is attached to a wall or other convenient support. It is formed or provided with two outwardly projecting plates or brackets b l), which are formed on their inner sides with vertical grooves 0 0. One of these grooves is formed near its lower end with an inward incline (Z, as shown in Fig. 1, and below this incline is a socket c. The wall-plate (I, with its end plates Z) 0, constitutes a frame for holding a roll of paper. In the outer ends of the plates 6 b a knife or cutter f, having serrated edges, is secured parallel with the wall-plate a for tearing off the paper as it is unwound in either direction from the roll and drawn over the upper or lower serrated edge of said knife or cutter. The ends of the knife or cutter are let into recesses in the inner faces of the end plates 6 and are firmly held therein when the parts of the frame are assembled, the ends of said end plates next to the plate a being slightly beveled, so that when the screws by which they are fastened thereto, as shown in Fig. 2, are tightened they tend to draw the outer ends of said plates 5 toward each other against the ends of said knife or cutter.'

The paper is wound or placed in oval rolls upon a flat spool or rack g, formed at the ends .with tongues /1, h, which are fitted in the grooves 0. At theirupper ends these tongues are formed with outwardly-projecting shoulders or lugs a, which are adapted to rest upon the upper edges of the end plates Z) of the frame, as shown in Fig. 1, to support the spool with a roll of paper thereon in its proper position in the frame with reference to the knife or cutter f.

j is a gravity locking-pin, held and freely movable endwise in bearings in the spool g and projecting therefrom through an opening just below one of the tongues it in position to engage with the socket and lock the spool in the frame when the parts are assembled as shown in the drawings.

WVhen a roll of paper is wound or placed on the spool g and the spool is inserted in the frame, this pin is not accessible; but when the paper is used up it is accessible through an opening in the spool and can be readily with drawn from engagement with the socket 0, thereby releasing the spool and permitting its withdrawal from the frame to be supplied with another rollof paper. The pin isflattened or otherwise enlarged between its bearings in the spool to prevent its slipping out of the spool when thelatter is out of the frame.

The spool, with a roll of paper wound or placed thereon, is dropped into place in the frame, the tongues It being entered in the grooves 0, and when the lugs at the upper ends of the tongues come to rest against the upper edges of the end platesb of the frame, the locking-pin j having been pushed back into the spool by the incline (Z drops automatically into the socket 6, thereby locking the spool in place in the frame and preventing the removal either of the spool or the roll of paper thereon until the roll is entirely used up.

Various changes in minor details of construction and arrangement of parts may be made within the principle and intended scope of the invention.

I claim 1. In a paper-holder the combination of a frame, a spool removably fitted therein and a gravity locking device for holding the spool in the frame, inaccessible when paper is wound on the spool, substantially as described.

2. In a paper-holder the combination of a frame and a spool removably fitted therein and provided with a gravity locking-pin for holding it in place in said frame, said pin being inaccessible when a rollof paper is placed on the spool, substantially as described.

3. In a paper-holder the combination of a frame provided with grooves and a socket, and a spool having tongues fitting into said grooves and a gravity locking-pin adapted to engage with said socket to hold the spool in the frame, substantially as described.

4:. In a paper-holder the combination of a frame having parallel grooves and a socket, and a spool provided with tongues fitting said grooves and a gravity locking-pin adapted to automatically drop into engagement with said socket when the spool is inserted in said frame, substantially described.

5. In a paper-holder the combination of a frame comprising a wall-plate and end plates having vertical parallel grooves in their inner sides, one of said end plates having a socket, a cutter attached to the end plates parallel with the wall-plate, and a spool provided with tongues fitted in said grooves and with a gravity locking-pin adapted to engage with said socket for locking the spool in said frame and preventing its removal therefrom until the paper thereon has been unwound, substantially as described.

6. In a paper-holder the combination of a frame composed of a wall-plate and of end plates formed with vertical, parallel grooves, one of the end plates having a socket at the lower end of its vertical groove, the bottom of which is inclined inwardly at its lower end above said socket, a spool formed at the ends with tongues which are fitted in said grooves and terminate in lugs adapted to engage with the end plates and to stop the spool in place, said spool havinga downwardly-inclined opening in one end, and a locking-pin loosely held in said opening in position to drop into said socket when the spool is inserted in said frame, substantially as described.

7. In a paper-holder the combination of a frame composed of a wall-plate and of end plates having parallel grooves and recesses in their inner faces and beveled ends which are attached by screws to the wall-plate, a spool having tongues removabl y fitted in the grooves in the end plates, and a cutter seated at the ends in the recesses in said end plates which are drawn inwardly by said screws against its ends and thereby secure it in said frame parallel with the wall-plate, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I hereto aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

OH ARLES FISHER.

IVitnesscs:

N. A. CHRISTENSEN, (Jims. L. (Joss.

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