A rolled product dispenser for dispensing a web of rolled product, comprising: a housing; and a dispensing assembly at least partially housed in the housing and interacting with the web of rolled product and including a dispensing roller having a rotation center and a peripheral wall with an upper section. The dispensing assembly can comprise an upper tensioning assembly and/or a lower tensioning assembly and/or a variable tension return assembly.

A paper toweling dispenser apparatus including damping structure for taking up over-spin slack, including a pivoting paper guide pivotally connected to a fixed paper guide by springs which operate in sequential stages during paper toweling dispensing.

A sheet product dispenser for dispensing a roll of sheet product mounted thereto includes a housing portion and a load inducement portion. The housing portion defines a space operative to receive the roll of sheet product for rotation about an axis to dispense the sheet product. The load inducement portion is operative to induce a frictional force between the roll of sheet product and the load inducement portion during rotation of the roll of sheet product. The load inducement portion includes a guide member, and a load member slidably engaged with the guide member and operative to contact and apply a load to an outer surface of the roll of sheet product.

Dispenser apparatus for holding a roll of paper toweling or tissue sheet material and dispensing the sheet material, the apparatus including structure exerting drag forces on the roll to reduce overspin when pulling forces on the sheet material causing dispensing have been terminated.

The invention relates to a device (10) to dispense paper sections of a predetermined length, comprising a device (26), operated by pulling on an end (74) of the paper web, for separating the paper sections from a paper web (24) wound onto a paper roll (22), and to provide easy manual access to the paper web (24) that follows after the separated paper section has been released, whereby the device (26) comprises at least one cutting roller (40) with a width that corresponds to at least the entire width of the paper web and a knife (42) that extends substantially over the entire side of the roller and protrudes rigidly from a roller shell, whereby associated with the cutting roller (40) is a pressure roller (44), which has a slit-shaped opening (46) that corresponds to the knife and is coupled to the cutting roller via geared wheels (52, 56; 54, 58). In order to be able to cut and automatically dispense paper web of high strength and elasticity in a reliable and trouble-free manner, it is intended that a geared wheel (52, 56; 54, 58), which is coupled to the cutting roller (40) or to the pressure roller (44), is eccentrically coupled to a tension spring (80), that pulling the end (74) of the paper web results in the paper web (24) being stretched tightly over a circumferential surface (72) of the pressure roller (44), and being sectionally cut, while maintaining some uncut strands, by the penetration of the knife (42) from the outside into the slit-shaped opening (46), in order to effect both a severing of the paper section as well as an elongation of the tension spring (80) up to a turn-around point, and that after the turn-around point has been overcome, both the cutting roller (40) and the pressure roller (44) continue to be rotated in opposite directions by the contraction of the tension spring (80) to dispense the paper section and a new paper end.

The invention relates to a device (10) for dispensing paper sections of predetermined length, with a device (26), which is operated by pulling on an end (74) of the paper web, and which separates the paper sections from the paper web (24) wound onto a paper roll (22) and provides easy manual access to the end (74) of the paper web that follows the separated paper section has been released. To allow a reliable and trouble-fee transporting, cutting, and dispensing of paper webs of high strength and elasticity, it is intended that the device (10) comprises a pressure spring (34) that bears upon a circumferential surface (36) of the paper roll (22), whereby a free end of the pressure spring (34) is oriented in a direction opposite to the direction of movement of the paper roll (22), whereby the pressure spring (34) is embodied rod-shaped and is connected pivotably to a portion (32) of the housing of the device (10), the pressure spring (34) is pivotable from a vertical operating position to a horizontal service position to release the paper roll (22), and the length of the pressure spring is such that in its pivoted state, one end of the pressure spring projects beyond the edge of the housing of the device (10).

A material dispenser comprising a housing, a mounting for a roll of material to be dispensed, and a material level indicator, in which said mounting comprises a first support member for rotationally supporting a first side of a roll of material to be dispensed in a plane, in which said material level indicator comprises an arm rotationally mounted to said dispenser at a pivot point, said arm comprising a visual indicator member at a first end thereof and a lateral abutment axially displaced from said visual indicator member for engaging with said first side of said roll of material, in which said arm is rotatable about said pivot point between a first position in which said arm is substantially parallel with said plane and said lateral abutment traverses said plane, and a second position in which said arm is arranged at an angle to said plane, and said lateral abutment and said visual indicator member are laterally displaced.

Dispenser apparatus for holding a roll of paper toweling or tissue sheet material and dispensing the sheet material, the apparatus including structure exerting drag forces on the roll to reduce overspin when pulling forces on the sheet material causing dispensing have been terminated.

Dispenser apparatus for holding a roll of paper toweling or tissue sheet material and dispensing the sheet material, the apparatus including structure exerting drag forces on the roll to reduce overspin when pulling forces on the sheet material causing dispensing have been terminated.

Apparatus for dispensing paper toweling from a roll of paper toweling includes a rotary damper resisting formation of overspin slack in the paper toweling resulting from a pulling force applied to the paper toweling. Control mechanism changes the rotary damper from an operative condition to an inoperative condition responsive to reduction of the diameter of the roll of paper toweling.