Toilet paper dispenser

• US 4,667,846 A
• Filed: 11/13/1984
• Issued: 05/26/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ippolito Marceau
• Original Assignee: Ippolito Marceau
• Inventors: Marceau, Ippolito
• Primary Examiner(s): Marmor, Charles A.
• Application Number:
  US06/670,479
• Time in Patent Office: 924 Days
• Field of Search: 221/34-35, 221/96, 222/136, 15/104.94
• US Class Current: 221/34
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 10/32 Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 2010/328 by spraying

Abstract

This dispenser comprises in combination in a box at least a liquid tank (7), a recess (9) for a supply of cleaning sheets (21) and devices (17,18,19) for distributing on said sheets in the recess (9) a measured amount of liquid contained in the tank (7).

Claims

1. A toilet paper dispenser comprising, a box-shaped housing having a pair of spaced-apart compartments, each compartment comprising a plurality of connected together walls and each compartment being adapted to receive a liquid to be sprayed onto toilet paper, said housing having an at least partly closed cavity between said pair of compartments, a removable box-shaped container removably disposed in said cavity between said pair of compartments, said box-shaped container containing a pile of toilet paper sheets, said compartment having an open top exposing the upper surface of an uppermost sheet in said container, and spray means connected to each compartment and extending over said open top of said removable container and into said cavity for selectively spraying liquid from each of said compartments onto the uppermost surface of an uppermost sheet in said containing er through said open top, said spray means comprising a pair of bent tubes, each bent tube having a first branch into one of said compartments and a second branch extending through one of said wall portions and into said cavity over said container, and a manual spraying device connected to each of said second branches for spraying liquid from one container through one of said bent tubes, said box-shaped housing comprising upper and lower walls, a rear wall interconnecting said upper and lower walls, said upper, lower and rear walls defining said cavity and defining upper, lower and rear wall portions of said compartments, said housing including a pair of side walls connected to said upper, lower and rear walls and closing outer sides of said compartments, and a pair of partition walls closing insides of said compartments and connected between said upper, lower and rear walls, said partition walls disposed on opposite sides of said cavity, said housing including a pair of front walls closing a front of each of said compartments, said box-shaped container having closed rear, bottom and side walls disposed respectively adjacent said rear, lower and partition walls of said housing, said container having a front wall with a pair of spaced-apart flanges defining a front lateral opening for access to a pile of sheets in said container.

2. A dispenser according to claim 1, including a pile of sheets in said container, each sheet having a front edge with a tab extending outwardly through said front lateral opening of said container.

3. A dispenser according to claim 2, wherein said tabs of adjacent sheets and said pile are offset from each other.

4. A dispenser according to claim 3, wherein said second branch of each bent tube extends through one of said partition walls at a location above said container in said cavity.

5. A dispenser according to claim 4, wherein said upper wall has a pair of filling openings therethrough, each filling opening opening into one of said compartments.

6. A dispenser according to claim 5, including a lateral opening in each of said partition walls near a top of each compartment respectively extending between each compartment and said cavity, a stopper with a hole therein disposed in each lateral opening, said second branch of each bent tube extending through the hole of one of said stoppers.

7. A dispenser according to claim 6, wherein each spraying device is mounted to said upper wall and connected to one of said second branches, each spraying device having a push knob above said upper wall.

8. A dispenser according to claim 7, including removable retaining means connected between said rear walls of said housing and container for holding said container in said cavity of said housing.

9. A dispenser according to claim 8, wherein said removable retaining means comprises magnetic discs connected to said rear walls of said housing and container in a position to engage each other when said container is in said cavity.

10. A dispenser according to claim 1, including removable retaining means connected between said rear walls of said housing and container for holding said container in said cavity of said housing.