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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 1994
Filed:
Jan. 04, 1993
Forrest S McCanless, Oxford, GA (US);
Bruce T Boone, Acworth, GA (US);
Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A dispenser for dispensing sheet material from a roll has a storage section wherein at least one reserve roll can be stored on a storage mandrel until depletion of a supply roll positioned on a dispensing mandrel in a dispensing section. Upon depletion of the supply roll, the user may pivot and remove the roll core from the dispensing mandrel. Upon return of the dispensing mandrel to its dispensing position, under a spring bias, the dispensing mandrel displaces and thereby releases a spring arm holding the reserve roll in the storage position against the bias of a spring urging the reserve roll toward the dispensing section. Upon release, the spring pushes the reserve roll onto the dispensing mandrel for dispensing. The dispenser housing has an inner frame member slidable within an outer frame member between a nested position wherein respective ends of the storage and dispensing mandrel are adjacent each other and dispensing and roll transfer can occur, and a protruded position wherein space is provided between respective ends of the storage and dispensing mandrels to allow reloading of the storage and dispensing sections.