Sheet material dispenser

• US 4,646,956 A
• Filed: 10/28/1985
• Issued: 03/03/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Clik-Cut Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Clik-Cut Incorporated
• Inventors: Stubbmann, Albert, Ruff, Stanley L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Yost, Frank T.
• Application Number:
  US06/792,039
• Time in Patent Office: 491 Days
• Field of Search: 225/9, 225/77, 225/91
• US Class Current: 225/77
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 35/002 Hand-held or table apparatus B65H35/006 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 225/282 With fixed blade and support for wound package
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 225/298 Blades or severing devices

Abstract

A free end portion of sheet wrapping material is grasped and pulled from a dispenser transversely past and spaced from a V-shaped serrated cutting element mounted on a housing.

Claims

1. In a sheet wrapping material dispenser of the type including a supply of elongated sheet wrapping material mounted on a support to permit a free end portion of the material to be grasped by a user, and to pay out a desired length of the material when the latter is manually withdrawn in a taut, generally planar, condition from the dispenser, a cutting element comprising:

(a) an elongated cutter body mounted on the dispenser; and

(b) means on the body for sequentially piercing the taut withdrawn sheet material at a plurality of punctures spaced generally linearly apart from one another over the entire transverse width of the taut withdrawn material when the latter is guided thereover and relative movement in a single, smooth, manual stroke toward and into contact with each other is experienced between the taut withdrawn material and the cutter body, said sequential piercing means including a plurality of juxtaposed pointed coplanar teeth arranged lengthwise of the cutter body and having apices which are at different vertical elevations, said teeth having vertical axes at the top of which the apices are located, said vertical axes being parallel to one another, each tooth being symmetrical about its respective vertical axis, said apices being initial contact points for the material, whereby each puncture uniformly and symmetrically widens in transverse width and merges with adjacent punctures during the stroke to form a complete transverse generally linear cut.

2. The cutting element as defined in claim 1, wherein the plurality of teeth include a central tooth located at the middle of the cutter body and having the highest elevation of all the teeth, additional teeth located adjacent to and at either side of the central tooth and having an intermediate elevation, and successive teeth located in rows at either side of the additional teeth and having lower elevations than the latter and the central tooth.

3. The cutting element as defined in claim 1, wherein each tooth is about 3/8" in height as measured along its respective vertical axis from its base to its apex.

4. The cutting element as defined in claim 1, wherein the cutter body lies in a plane which is generally perpendicular to the plane in which the taut withdrawn material lies at the initial contact points.