Towel or tissue holder

• US 4,483,491 A
• Filed: 04/25/1983
• Issued: 11/20/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: James R. Rainey
• Original Assignee: James R. Rainey
• Inventors: Rainey, James R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Christian, Leonard D.
• Application Number:
  US06/487,973
• Time in Patent Office: 575 Days
• Field of Search: 242/55.2, 242/55.3, 242/55.53, 242/129.5, 242/129.6, 242/129.62, 225/46, 225/65, 225/66, D 6/96, D 6/97, 312/38-40
• US Class Current: 242/598.3
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 10/38 the web being rolled up with or without tearing edge A47K10/36 and A47K10/46 take precedence

Abstract

This invention is a dispensing holder for rolls of paper toweling or tissue, including a wall-mountable frame, and a removable roll spindle supported at its ends in arcuate grooves of the frame, and a shelf on the frame, for holding other objects conveniently thereupon.

Claims

1. A towel or tissue holder, comprising, in combination, a frame and a spindle removably receivable upon said frame;

said frame comprising a pair of spaced-apart, parallel side panels each having a rounded front edge, a transverse panel mounted across the top of both said side panels forming a top shelf, a pair or rear braces between said side panels having mounting holes for securing said holder to a room wall, a shallow groove on facing sides of said pair of side panels for supporting said spindle therebetween, opposite ends of said spindle being slidably received and supported in said grooves, a replacable roll of paper being received on said spindle, each said groove opening out on a rounded front edge of said side panel and extending arcuately rearwardly and downwardly, and including a rearwardly projecting corner formed therealong, and having a horizontal bottom panel comprising a secret shelf behind said roll of paper.