Dispenser

Abstract

A dispenser for perforated web of absorbent paper, tissue, or nonwoven material in the form of a roll or a stack includes a housing forming a compartment, a passage arrangement defining a web passage, and an oblong dispensing opening. Inside the compartment, a web path is defined from a position of the roll or the stack to the oblong dispensing opening including the web passage. An edge portion at each of two lateral short sides of the oblong dispensing opening arranged at a distance from each other narrower than a width of the web separates a sheet from the web along a perforation. The web path changes direction as it passes over a straight edge arranged alongside, and perpendicularly to, the web path. The straight edge, the web passage, and the oblong dispensing opening are arranged directly adjacent to each other in that order seen in a direction of dispensing.

1 . A dispenser for a perforated web of absorbent paper, tissue, or nonwoven material in the form of a roll or a stack, the dispenser being adapted for a user to grasp, and pull on, a dispensing end of the web to dispense a sheet of web from the roll or the stack, and the dispenser comprising:
 a housing forming a compartment,   a passage arrangement defining a web passage, and   an oblong dispensing opening,   wherein inside the compartment, the roll is adapted to be arranged to rotate about an axis or the stack is adapted to be supported when dispensing the web, and a web path is defined from a position of the roll or of the stack to the oblong dispensing opening including the web passage,   wherein an edge portion is provided at each of two lateral short sides of the oblong dispensing opening for separating a sheet from the web along a perforation, the edge portions being arranged at a distance from each other narrower than a width of the web,   wherein a straight edge is arranged alongside, and perpendicularly to, the web path, wherein the web path changes direction as it passes over the straight edge, and   wherein the straight edge, the web passage and the oblong dispensing opening are arranged directly adjacent to each other in that order seen in a direction of dispensing of the web.   
     
     
         2 . The dispenser according to  claim 1 , wherein the web path is subjected to a change of direction in only one direction at the straight edge. 
     
     
         3 . The dispenser according to  claim 2 , wherein the change of direction is 10-90 degrees, at the straight edge. 
     
     
         4 . The dispenser according to  claim 1 , wherein the edge portions comprise a rubberlike material adapted to abut the web. 
     
     
         5 . The dispenser according to  claim 1 , wherein the passage arrangement comprises a first wall portion and a second wall portion, each extending in two substantially parallel planes defining therebetween the web passage, and wherein the edge portions connect to the first and second wall portions. 
     
     
         6 . The dispenser according to  claim 5 , wherein the first and second wall portions are provided with cut-outs between the edge portions, the cut-outs each having a shape of a circular, or semi-circular, segment to form the oblong dispensing opening extending in a circular, or semi-circular, plane substantially perpendicularly to the two substantially parallel planes. 
     
     
         7 . The dispenser according to  claim 5 , wherein the distance between the first wall portion and the second wall portion is 2-6 mm. 
     
     
         8 . The dispenser according to  claim 5 , wherein a funnel is arranged before the web passage seen in the direction of dispensing of the web. 
     
     
         9 . The dispenser according to  claim 1 , wherein the distance between the edge portions and the straight edge is between 40-80 mm, along the web passage. 
     
     
         10 . The dispenser according to  claim 5 , wherein the first and second wall portions of the passage arrangement are arranged tilted downwardly from a horizontal plane at an angle of 15-60 degrees when the dispenser is arranged in a position for dispensing. 
     
     
         11 . The dispenser according to  claim 1 , wherein the housing is provided with a wall in which a recess is formed to follow the shape of a circular, or semi-circular, plane of the oblong dispensing opening 
     
     
         12 . The dispenser according to  claim 1 , wherein the dispenser is adapted for use with a perforated web in the form of a roll, and wherein a braking device is arranged in the compartment and is adapted to abut against the roll. 
     
     
         13 . The dispenser according to  claim 1 , wherein the dispenser is adapted for use with a perforated web in the form of a stack, and wherein the dispenser is adapted to support the stack in a position such that the web is fed from a top of the stack over the straight edge and into the web passage. 
     
     
         14 . The dispenser according to  claim 1 , wherein the dispenser is adapted for use with a perforated web in the form of a stack, and wherein the dispenser is adapted to support the stack in a position such that the web is fed from a bottom of the stack over the straight edge and into the web passage. 
     
     
         15 . The dispenser according to  claim 1 , wherein the dispenser is adapted to contain a second web in the form of a second roll or a second stack, and wherein inside the compartment the second roll is adapted to be arranged to rotate about an axis or the second stack is adapted to be supported when dispensing the web, and a second web path is defined from a position of the second roll or the second stack to the oblong dispensing opening including the web passage. 
     
     
         16 . The dispenser according to  claim 15 , wherein the said straight edge or a second straight edge is provided alongside and perpendicularly to the second web path adjacent the web passage. 
     
     
         17 . The dispenser according to  claim 1 , wherein the web path extends between two rollers of a pair of drivable rollers. 
     
     
         18 . The dispenser according to  claim 1 , wherein the dispenser is adapted for placing on a flat surface.