Abstract: A tape applicator includes a frame. A blade is affixed to the frame. A guard is mounted on the frame and extends from the frame beyond the edge of the blade. The guard is deflected as the tape is drawn across the blade.

Abstract: A paper cutter includes a blade extending in the width of a rolled paper, the blade having a linear edge and a serrated edge formed at an end of the linear edge. A paper guide for discharging the paper is disposed downstream from the cutter, the paper guide having an upper and a lower member and a discharge port at the downstream end thereof. A cutout section is formed at the upper member of the paper guide, and the position of the cutout section corresponds to the serrated blade edge in the width direction of the paper. The cutout section permits the paper to be grasped with fingers by the operator. When the paper is pulled, a force acts on the paper in a direction to press it against the serrated blade edge, cutting the paper from the edge.

Abstract: The present invention is a sheet having a serrated cutting edge attached to a carton case containing a roll of a cooking sheet such as a synthetic resin film, paper sheet and metallic foil, the sheet having a serrated cutting edge used for cutting the cooking sheet. The sheet having a serrated cutting edge is made of a vulcanized fiber. A moisture-proof film of a synthetic resin is formed on the two surfaces of a vulcanized fiber blank in order to make the most of the rigidity and elasticity which are advantages of the vulcanized fiber and decreases moisture absorption which is a disadvantage thereof. The invention also is a carton to which the sheet having a serrated cutting edge is adhered to as well as to a method of adhering the sheet having a serrated cutting edge to the carton by utilizing the moisture-proof film and ultrasonic adhesion.

Abstract: A dispenser from which sheet material may be manually pulled from a supply of the sheet material carried on the dispenser through a passageway defined by a frame of the dispenser. The dispenser includes a cutting member having a sharp cutting edge adapted for transversely cutting the sheet material and an elongate contact surface generally parallel to and spaced from the cutting edge. The cutting member is mounted on the frame for movement between (1) a retracted position to which it is biased at which the cutting edge is positioned to restrict contact between a person using the dispenser and the cutting edge and at which the contact surface extends along the one side of the passageway; and (2) a cutting position to which the cutting member can be moved from its retracted position by manually tensioning sheet material being pulled from the dispenser around the contact surface of the cutting member.

Abstract: A cutting assembly for aluminum foil dispensers. The cutting assembly comprises a member corresponding to the length of the dispenser carton. The member has a U-shaped cross-section adapted to slip over the free edge of the front panel of the dispenser carton having a base web with one leg on the inside of the carton and a second leg exposed on the outside of the carton. The inside leg has an extension which is bent back over the leg and extends the full height of the inside leg to project above the base web of the U-shaped member. The upward extension is serrated with a continuous row of teeth projecting above the base, preferably a depth of 0.020". The outside leg of the member has a flap which is bent back internally of the U-shaped member to provide a retainer strip which projects angularly upward and inward of the U-shaped member to provide a resilient flap which resists upward displacement of the member from the panel.

Abstract: A cutting blade for cutting sheet materials such as plastic film or metal foil is provided. The cutting blade incorporates a row of cutting teeth (50) projecting from a flat surface between the surface's folded edges. The depth of cut of the cutting blade is limited by the height that the cutting teeth project from the flat surface. In addition, by spacing the cutting teeth sufficiently closely together, the cutting teeth provide a bearing surface sufficient to support human skin so that the cutting blade cuts plastic film and metal foil but does not easily puncture human skin.

Abstract: A serrated cutting strip (26) for a carton comprises paper or board impregnated with a mix of acrylic resin and urea formaldehyde. The strip is 0.2 to 0.5 mm in thickness and can bend without cracking over a bar of 20 mm diameter. The strip has adhesive on one side and a release sheet (28) on the adhesive. The strip is applied to a carton by apparatus (10) which comprises rollers (44,45) for advancing a substrate sheet (24), a cutter (12) and means (44,45) for drawing a release sheet (28) away from the edge (46).

Abstract: A paper cutting apparatus comprising a housing partially enclosing a roll of paper and a cutting member disclosed along an opening of the housing. A leading edge of a roll of paper is unrolled through the opening of the housing and is linearly severed along the cutting member.

Abstract: A tear strip severs a moving paper web as it is being wound onto a drum, so as to enable the paper web to be wound onto an empty drum. The tear strip is made of paper. The tear strip is a multiply folded paper strip, and the plies of the paper strip resting on one another are at least partially adhesively bonded to one another.

Abstract: A cutting blade is formed from a rectangular sheet of a rigid material such as metal or plastic. One side of the sheet is formed into a roll or tube giving structural rigidity to the entire cutting blade. The remainder of the sheet extends flat and tangentially from the tube. In cross section, the cutting blade looks generally like the arabic numeral "9". At the top ("rounded head portion") of the "9", a series of holes in one or more rows are punched through the cutting blade so that petals of metal project up and out of the "9" shape at its top. Preferably, for each hole, associated petals are pointed in different directions to provide both a cutting edge and a holding edge for film cut with the blade. The cutting blade may include a series of tangs pointing up (toward the top of the "9") which allow the blade to be easily placed over an edge of the dispenser, but not easily removed therefrom.

Abstract: A generally cubical cardboard container is provided for containing and storing a length of sheet-like material which may be drawn via an elongate slot in a top face of the container and over an uppermost edge portion of a front face of the container. A safe cutting element, preferably formed of a substrate bearing small sharp-edged particles, is adhered to the uppermost edge portion of the front face. A waterproof coating is provided to coat the sharp-edged particles, and protects them from any ambient moisture and/or grease and also ensures against removal of any particles during use. The user simply draws out a desired length of the sheet-like material through the slit and over the uppermost edge of the front face, and then applies a downward force to press the material to the sharp edges of the coated particles to initiate and continue a tear across the width of the material.

Abstract: A dispenser for a roll of bags joined in series end-to end along transverse severable lines comprising a receptacle in which a roll of bags may be held and rotated to pass the bags through the outlet of the receptacle and a web guide secured to the outlet. The web guide may be provided with a floor and inwardly overhanging side edges with the floor terminating in an upwardly projecting serrated edge which effects separation of each bag from its next ensuing bag.

Abstract: Linerless labels are dispensed from a roll and detached along perforation lines using a set of low speed rolls, a set of high speed rolls, and a breaker blade between the sets of rolls. The label-engaging tip of the breaker blade, and at least one roll of each sets of rolls, has a surface that will not stick to the adhesive associated with the linerless labels. One or more conveyor belts, also with non-stick surfaces, may transport the linerless labels from the low speed rolls to the high speed rolls, and transport detached labels away from the high speed rolls. A sensor downstream of the high speed rolls senses the presence of a detached label, and then shuts down both sets of rolls. The apparatus may be operated in an automatic mode so that when a detached label is manually removed from the high speed rolls both sets of rolls automatically start up again, or in a manual mode that requires the operator to activate a switch to restart the detacher each time.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for cutting gift-wrap paper, which comprises an elongate straight V-sectioned element that is easily hand-held by one hand of an operator. The element has a cutting edge along one side, which cuts the paper after the desired amount thereof has been pulled off the roll.

Abstract: An apparatus for splitting medicinal tablets which consists of a ridge 12 fused onto or stamped into the surface of card shaped materials. The card 14 can be made of any material with sufficient hardness to permit use of the ridge 12 as a fulcrum to fracture the tablet.A tablet is split using a tablet splitting card by placing a tablet 18 on the ridge 12. Pressure is then applied to the edges of the tablet with two fingers 20. The tablet will split along a line corresponding to the position of the ridge on the card.

Abstract: A printed paper dispensing and severing apparatus includes an elongated paper to be printed, dispensed and severed. A printer including a positive drive mechanism projects paper along a guide path to an exit chute in a housing, the guide path being defined at least in part by a deflection plate so that the projection of the paper will encounter the deflection plate and be guided to exit the housing. A cutting mechanism adjacent the guide path includes a blade with a centrally peaked ridge in a guide surface generally parallel to the guide path. The reliability of this mechanism is dramatically improved due the absence of moving parts in the guide path, cutter blade, deflection plate and exit chute. The guide path and the exit chute are angled to one another, the elongated paper is provided in the form of a roll of paper which gives the paper a curl and the curl of the paper is in the same sense as the angle.

Abstract: The invention provides a longitudinally extending adhesive tape product adapted to be cut off into a plurality of tape segments by use of a transverse cutting edge. The product comprises a longitudinally extending tape wound into a roll, the tape having a first side which is adhesive free, a plurality of longitudinally separated indicia and a second side which has a corresponding plurality of longitudinally separated and transversely extending coating bands of pressure sensitive adhesive. The coating bands have leading and trailing edges and are separated by portions of the second side of the tape which are substantially adhesive free. The indicia are so located relative to the coating bands whereby when one of the indicia is aligned in a specified relation to the cutting edge and a tape segment is cut off, the cut off tape segment has a single one of the coating bands and the coating band on the cut off tape segment is located adjacent a transverse edge of the tape segment.

Abstract: A roll paper cutting apparatus in a printer whereby printed roll paper which has been printed and released can be cut certainly and smoothly with a simple structure. For this purpose, this roll paper cutting apparatus has a paper cutter comprising bite teeth which are provided on at least one of end portions thereof so as to start to cut released roll paper when it is held by an operator's hand, and cut teeth which are provided on a region different from a region of the bite teeth, the bite teeth and the cut teeth being located along a straight line, wherein the bite teeth are formed in such a manner that an angle between a line perpendicular to a row of the cut teeth and an outside surface contour line of each of the bite teeth is smaller than an angle between an inside surface contour line of the tooth on the other side and the perpendicular line. Preferably, the bite teeth have smaller pitches than the cut teeth.

Abstract: A paperboard shaped into a profile substantially the same as that of a carton blank for folding into a carbon is formed with a plurality of first slits on an edge of the paperboard at a predetermined angle relative to the edge and with a plurality of second slits on the same edge at a predetermined angle relative to the first slits in such a manner that saw-teeth are integrally formed thereon. The saw teeth are immersed in a bath of a quick drying adhesive including .alpha.-cyanoacrylate to be impregnated with the adhesive and then dried, thereby forming teeth constituting a cutter on the carton blank. The carton obtained by folding the carton blank can be used as a packaging container for accommodating a roll of wrapping wed.

Abstract: A box dispenser for dispensing rolled-materials is fabricated of single wall corrugated board having a corrugated medium comprising E-flute glued between two facings. The dispenser is provided with a cutting edge. The cutting edge is formed by die-cutting an appropriate edge of the box adjacent to the dispensing opening to form serrations. The cutting edge is reinforced and strengthened by filling the interstitial voids between the two facings and the fluting at the cutting edge with a fast setting glue which adheres to the fluting and facings to provide a rigid, reinforced cutting edge which can resist being crushed or dulled by constant dispensing of the rolled material.

Abstract: A dispensing apparatus for serially dispensing flexible plastic bags from a wound package of bags which are joined along perforated severance lines, including a panel, and at least one elongate dispensing slot extending through the panel. The slot includes relatively narrow and linearly aligned outer edge portions, and a laterally extending tongue positioned between the outer edge portions. Also, an opening is located on one side of the tongue. In use, the opening is used to facilitate thread-up of the initial bag through the slot, and the two outer edge portions serve to engage and hold the bag in the slot. During withdrawal, the tongue engages the central portion of the bag, and when the tongue engages the next perforated severance line, or the bottom of the cut out in the case of T-shirt bags, a significant resistance is imparted which causes the severance line to rupture, with the next bag positioned in the slot and ready to be engaged and withdrawn.

Abstract: A dispenser is used for dispensing plastic film from a roll. The dispenser has a housing that may be mounted under a shelf or cupboard or on a wall. The housing consists of a cover unit that is installed in the place of use and a releasable base unit that fits into the bottom of the cover unit and is held in place with resiliently biased locking tabs. The base unit carries the roll of film, so that the roll is readily installed on the base unit when separated from the cover. The loaded base unit is easily lifted into place. The film is dispensed through a dispensing slot at the back of the base unit. Lengths of film are severed using a cutter at the front of the base unit. The length of film between the dispensing opening and the cutter is prevented from clinging to the underside of the base unit by using a non-planar, roughened surface on the under side of the base plate.

Abstract: A plastic bag dispenser holds a continuous roll of bags, connected by perforated separation lines. The dispenser is provided with a tongue, which the bags are dispensed over, that engages the separation line between the bag at the end of the roll and the next bag. This begins the separation of the separation line, as well as holds the next bag behind the tongue. A finger is provided on the upstream side of the tongue, with a gap between the finger and tongue. As a bag is separated, a portion of the front edge of the next bag is held in the gap, holding the bag in position for the next user.

Abstract: A cutting tool for use on a wrapping web container containing a roll of a web for wrapping foods or the like. The cutting tool has a member made of a piece of paper having a toothed portion with teeth in the form of saw-teeth, the toothed portion having been hardened by being immersed in a liquid containing an alkyl .alpha.-cyanoacrylate and dried.

Abstract: Curl management device for assisting in the uncurling and proper alignment of fax sheets on photocopier glass surfaces comprising a rigid sheet of plastic or other material (preferably not metal), having a weight on the order of from about 1 to about 5 ounces and a thickness of 1/16 to 1/8 inch and dimensions of approximately 81/2 by 11 is disclosed. The plate has one or more specially configured cut-outs leading to an adjacent edge which permits viewing the edge of the fax sheet being held down and provides access for several fingers of the user to position the sheet properly with respect to the stop margins adjacent the edges of the photocopier glass. One or more holes or a notch in the cut-outs may be provided to permit hanging the plate next to the photocopier. One edge may be tapered to permit ease of tearing a continuous fax into individual sheets. One or more upturned ridges, handles or knobs may be provided to permit grasping for ease of manipulation of the plate.

Abstract: A device for breaking open cylindrically packaged rolls of coins, has a base and an anvil centrally located on the upper surface of the base. The anvil includes a lower portion affixed to the base and an upper portion against which the roll of coins are struck to break open the same.

Abstract: A dispensing carton in which a film wound cylindrically is contained includes a bottom panel, a rear panel, a front panel, both side panels, a lid member which is hingedly joined to the rear panel, a front flange joined to an end of the lid member to overlap the front panel when said lid member is closed, and a cutter mounted along an end of the front flange. The front flange includes a convex edge including, for example, a V-shaped edge. A saw-tooth edge of the cutter mounted along the end of the front flange is arranged into a convex shape such as V-shape. A length from the tip of at least one tooth of the saw-tooth edge nearest to a base of the box to the bottom of a gullet adjacent to the tooth is longer than a length from the tip of other teeth to the bottom of gullets adjacent to the other teeth. When the film is pulled out of the carton and further pulled in the horizontal direction or twisted while being pulled, the tooth of the cutter nearest to the base of the box first cuts into the film.

Abstract: A paper cutting apparatus for use in combination with a facsimile telecommunications machine to neatly and efficiently sever paper dispensed from a facsimile machine. The apparatus of the present invention is usually of a unitary construction and includes two (2) main elements: a base plate, which is generally elongated and flat, and an end plate formed integrally therewith. The end plate is bent at an angle of approximately one hundred and five (105) to one hundred and twenty (120) degrees relative to the base. The end plate incorporates a slotted opening in which the cutting edge is formed.

Abstract: A paper dispenser is furnished with one or more turnable or tiltable cutting or tearing off device, equipped with serrated or jagged edges. When inactive, the cutting edge is held by a spring or by force of gravity in a safe or innocuous position. As a drawing force is applied to the paper web coming out of the dispenser, the cutting or tearing off device is turned or tilted so that the serrations of the cutting edge come into contact with the paper web. When a portion of the web is torn off, the jagged edge returns to its shielded position. The cutting or tearing off device can be directly actuated by the paper web, or via an intermediate element.

Abstract: The present invention provides a tape cutting tool having a body portion and one forward cutting edge. In one embodiment, resilient lateral sides of the body portion engage the outer sidewalls of a spool-less roll of tape; in a second embodiment the resilient lateral sides engage the inner sidewalls of a spool holding the tape; and in a third embodiment the lateral sides engage the outer sidewalls of a spool holding the tape. The tool is slideable along the periphery of the roll of tape or the spool holding the tape, and the forward cutting edge is employed to sever predetermined lengths of tape from the roll. In all embodiments, the tool is designed so that the leading edge of tape remaining on the tape roll, after a length of tape has been severed, is maintained apart from the tape roll to provide easy access to the leading edge when the next piece of tape is to be cut from the roll, and the tape is severed at an optimum angle relative to the cutting edge.

Abstract: A protective cover plate is adapted to cooperate with a tape dispenser, and includes a lever having a blade-protecting cover as a handle and a pivotable base. The base is adapted to be normally in contact with an elastic guide plate of the dispenser. A part of the cross-section of the base has a V-shaped configuration, including a round apex, and faces away from the handle. The legs of the V-shaped configuration subtend a predetermined angle with one another, and converge at the round apex. Two pins extend on respective opposite sides of the base into holes formed in respective frame plates of the dispenser, rendering the protective cover pivotably disposed on the tape dispenser. The lever occupies a first stable non-operative position, when the handle covers the cutter. By pivoting the lever with sufficient force away from the cutter, so as to overcome a pressure exerted by the elastic guide plate of the tape dispenser, the protective cover assumes a second stable and operative position.

Abstract: An improvement for a tape dispensing apparatus equipped with a device for cutting tape into discrete segments. A straight-edged blade vertically disposed and secured within a U-shaped support provides enhanced cutting abilities while protecting the operator from injurious contact with the blade cutting edges. The support is also adapted to allow easy removal of the blade after extended use without allowing excessive adhesive build-up on the cutting edge from adhering to the assembly. The blade is firmly maintained within the support via a spring tab which furnishes stability to the cutting assembly.

Abstract: A cut off blade adapted for severing plastic film material folded in layers. The blade is a thin metal sheet including an attachment portion and a plurality of similarly shaped teeth defining a cutting edge portion of the blade. Each of the teeth defines parts of the first and second major surfaces in the shapes of isosceles triangles with two equal length sides terminating in points and having bases adjacent the attachment portion and aligned in a first direction along the blade so that the points project at right angles to the first direction. The angle between any portion of an edge surface of the blade along the cutting edge portion and the second surface when measured in a plane normal to the first direction is the same acute angle, and the metal of the sheet defining the edge surface along the cutting edge has been cold flowed toward the intersection thereof with the second major surface by a punch and die forming method to define a sharp edge at that intersection.

Abstract: A device for cutting sheet material wound in a cylindrical roll includes a blade member having a cutting edge extending the length thereof, and positioning means extending from the roll of sheet material to the blade member for positioning the blade parallel to the axis of the roll. The positioning means includes a portion thereof distal with respect to the blade in rolling engagement with a surface of the roll to align the roll axis and the cutting edge. In one embodiment, an arm extends from each end of the blade to the roll and a pin protrudes from the arm inside the roll to bear against the inner surface thereof. A bearing, which may be bushing of a diameter substantially less than an inner diameter of the roll, rotates on the pin so that the blade is pendulously suspended from the inner surface of the roll. Graduations are provide on one or both sides of the blade member, and methods are disclosed for using the blade member as a drafting instrument to measure, and to draw horizontal and vertical lines.

Abstract: A two roll sheet material dispenser cabinet for paper towelling and the like has an automatic transfer system from one roll to the other when one roll is exhausted. The dispenser feeds sheet material sequentially and comprises a cabinet with first and second roll stations and a feed mechanism to feed sheet material from the rolls to a dispensing opening. The feed mechanism has a gripping roller, and a pressure plate pressed against the roller to provide a feed passage between the roller and plate, a feed mechanism rotates the gripping roller, the sheet material from one roll station is retained in the feed passage while sheet material from the other roll station is dispensed. When the sheet material from one roll station is exhausted, the feed mechanism automatically dispenses sheet material from the other station.

Abstract: A tape dispensing apparatus equipped with improved means for cutting tape into discrete segments. A straight-edged blade vertically disposed and secured within a U-shaped support provides enhanced cutting abilities while protecting the operator from injurious contact with the blade cutting edges.

Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing sheet material, particularly metallic foil, positions each successively leading end region of the foil, after a preceding length of the foil has been severed, to stand freely in a generally upright condition away from a severing means which is preferably provided without sharp serrated cutting teeth to protect a user from injury during use of the dispenser, and to provide the user with ready access to each upstanding leading end region of the foil.

Abstract: A paper cutting apparatus for tearing off a sheet of paper of any desired length from a paper roll. The apparatus includes a cutter comprising an elongated, arcuate-shaped plate, which is detachable placed over the paper roll and between the sides of a paper roll holder. The plate includes a notch at each side edge to loosely engage the sides of the holder and a serrated cutting edge along its front edge.

Abstract: Presented is a device for supporting and facilitating the dispensing of sheet material contained on rolls. The device is provided with three separate center-forming roll support structures on each of which may be separately supported a roll of sheet material to be dispensed. Each of the roll support structures is spring pressed to impose an axial force on the roll to thus retain it engaged with the roll support. Additionally, each of the roll support structures is manipulable to enable an increase of the space within which a roll is to be supported to thus facilitate placement and removal of a roll of material or removal of an empty roll.

Abstract: An ergonomically shaped tape dispensing and cutting device adapted to snap over a roll of masking tape or the like and be retained on the roll, affording a convenient tearing edge for severing the tape. The device is preferably a one-piece molded plastic article comprising a top wall which rides over the outer periphery of the tape roll and two flexible side walls which depend from the top section and flank opposite sides of the roll of tape when the invention is positioned on a roll of tape. A cutting blade may be fixed to or integrally formed with the dispenser. Inwardly projecting shoulders are fixed to the front bottom surface of the side walls in opposing spaced relation and serve to spread the side walls apart as the tape dispenser and cutter is pressed down over a roll of tape. As the shoulders clear the inner core of the tape roll, the shoulders are snapped back beneath the core of the roll and serve to retain the invention on the roll of tape.

Abstract: A cutter has a file-like coarse surface formed on a substrate by fast adhesion of irregular granules to the surface of the substrate with a soft adhesive agent. A dispensing container has the cutter attached fast thereto. The cutter can be folded and attached fast to a ridge of a dispensing container, the ridge in a position such that a sheet material drawn out of the dispensing container will be pressed most readily, without sustaining a crack in the layer of adhesive agent and inducing unwanted separation of irregular granules from the substrate.

Abstract: A film dispensing carton particularly suited for consumer use has affixed projecting teeth at the bottom thereof and projecting teeth on the edge of the formable cover. When the cover is in the closed position, the teeth of the bottom and the cover intermesh and aid in cutting the film.

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.

Abstract: A surveyor's ribbon or tape dispenser which is designed to be carried on a person's belt which includes a reel from which a ribbon tape may be selectively dispensed by urging the ribbon or tape outwardly beyond the end of and against the pressure of a spring biased retention arm and which also includes a fixed U-shaped cutter element mounted along an intermediate portion of the retention arm at a point spaced from the end thereof for use in severing a selected portion of the ribbon or tape from the reel.

Abstract: A thread-cutting device for a sewing machine comprises a cutter having a cutting edge and a thread guiding member which holds the cutter. The thread guiding member is formed with thread guiding edges which obliquely cross the cutting edge of the cutter, and leads the threads between its two parallel thread guiding edges and the cutting edge of the cutter. A crossing point between the thread guiding member and the cutting edge of the cutter is adjustable.

Abstract: A free end portion of sheet wrapping material is grasped and pulled from a dispenser transversely past and spaced from a cutting element mounted on a housing. The cutting element is displaced in response to the movement of the withdrawn material by generating a displacement force, latching the cutting element against displacement in a normally guarded position in which the cutting element is inoperative for cutting, and thereupon unleashing the displacement force in response to a further movement of the material to drivingly displace the cutting element from the guarded position to a cutting position in which the cutting element is in a position to sequentially pierce and cut the sheet material that is subsequently moved toward the same. Methods of dispensing the sheet material and of wrapping items also are disclosed.

Abstract: The paperboard carton has a material severing edge which is located on an end edge of the blank from which the carton is formed and is used to sever material from a roll thereof disposed in the carton. The material severing edge is preferably located at the lower front corner of the carton and projects beyond the plane of the front wall of the carton. The material severing edge is preferably a plastic strip secured to the paperboard and having a cutting surface formed concurrently with the formation of the end edge of the blank on which it is mounted. The paperboard backing the cutting surface is preferably substantially removed from beneath the cutting surface so that the latter consists essentially of all plastic.

Abstract: A cutting device for a continuous paper web (4), said web being advanced from a paper web supply (8) by the aid of at least one advancing means (11, 14, 15) to a feed-out location (17) where the cutting may take place, a deflector (16) being provided downstream of said advancing means (11, 14, 15) and changing the direction of movement of said web (4), so that the web is advanced toward the feed-out location (17). A stationary knife (18) is provided downstream of said deflector (16), the edge of said knife (18) being arranged so as to face away from said feed-out location (17) and toward said deflector (16) and the edge of said knife forming an acute angle with said deflector means (16). Said deflector is a sheet shaped to be bendable toward the base of said knife, the edge of said knife (18) not contacting and cutting said paper web until the free end (4') of the web is pulled, e.g. by hand (19), in a direction forming an angle with said deflector (16) and, thus, bending it.

Abstract: A paper dispensing device comprising a holder containing a paper web reel and consisting of a support (4) to be fastened to a substrate (3) and a hood (5) to be releasably fixed to said support (4), said support (4) having a central opening (9) for passing the paper web and at the side of said opening at least one ripping edge (10), while in the operational state of the device the hood covers the reel on the support, wherein the support has a rim (8) protruding like a console and passing around the side intended for the substrate,at the lower end to be fastened to the support the hood (5) has a substantially U-shaped widening (13) for receiving the rim (8) of the support (4),in the mounted position the hood grips around the rim of the support by its widened part partly from above, laterally and from below,and the hood (5) can be slipped in a self-clamping manner onto the rim (8) of the support (4) and can be fastened thereto in its end position in a resilient manner, in order to simply close and open the disp

Abstract: The invention relates to a holder for paper rolls with central dispensing of the paper from the interior of the roll. There is a pull-out opening for the paper web in one end wall of the holder, where it is surrounded by a projecting, substantially tubular, tearing device with tearing teeth for tearing off the paper web. According to the invention, the holder is firstly made so that it can be mounted in any position, and secondly its tearing device is provided with protective projections, which extend beyond the tearing teeth.