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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2001
Mark Harrison Stanland, Lexington, KY (US);
Steven M. Slye, Harrodsburg, KY (US);
Douglas E. Bagan, Harrodsburg, KY (US);
Alain P. Cotnoir, Danville, KY (US);
Randy A. Baughman, Harrodsburg, KY (US);
Adam T. Elliott, Lexington, KY (US);
Bay West Paper Corporation, Harrodsburg, KY (US);
Abstract
An improved web material dispenser that is designed to dispense web material, such as toilet tissue or the like. The dispenser is able to retain a roll containing tissue at a dispensing position until the tissue has been exhausted from the roll. The dispenser senses that the tissue is exhausted from the roll, and only then permits a reserve roll to be rotated into a dispensing position. Thus, the dispenser ensures that the tissue from each roll is used up before permitting access to a reserve roll. The invention also provides a new web material roll that utilizes a “double core”, as well as a method of making the “double core”.