Winding – tensioning – or guiding – Coil holder or support – Mounted coil holder or spindle
Patent
1998-02-05
1998-12-15
Darling, John P.
Winding, tensioning, or guiding
Coil holder or support
Mounted coil holder or spindle
242598, B65H 1900
Patent
active
058487620
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to an adapter for dispensers receiving coreless toilet paper rolls.
Conventionally, toilet paper is wound up on board cores so as to facilitate the mechanical winding operation and to obtain an accurately wound roll.
There has been a tendency of late, in particular with multipacks of toilet paper rolls, to keep the volume to be packaged as low as possible. This helps strongly reduce the packaging cost as such and the fees of participation in centralized dumping such as the "Duales System Deutschland" (keyword: "Gruner Punkt")*. Moreover, it is generally desirable to reduce the use of packaging material with a view to reducing the quantities of garbage.
The most efficient measure for the reduction of packaging material, in particular with multipacks of toilet paper rolls, is offered by the reduction in size of the toilet paper rolls by omission of the cores. If a web of toilet paper of constant length and number of sheets is rolled on itself virtually without any open core, then the diameter of a toilet paper roll and thus the required packaging volume can be reduced considerably. However, there is the problem that most dispensers used for toilet paper rolls need the open core for the fastening of the roll, the open core of the toilet roll being placed on corresponding holders. Such dispensers are not suitable for coreless toilet paper rolls, they would have to be replaced. Since the majority of consumers will very much dislike such an exchange and the costs and efforts implied, it is to be assumed that coreless toilet paper rolls will not successfully meet with a ready market.
Proceeding from these problems, it is the object of the invention to create a possibility for coreless toilet paper rolls to be used on conventional dispensers.
This object is attained by the adapter herein disclosed. To this end, the adapter has a receptacle, into which to place a coreless toilet paper roll, and at least one suspension arrangement for it to be fastened to conventional mountings of dispensers used for core-type toilet paper rolls.
Owing to this design, the conventional mounting available in toilets can still be used by the adapter being applied, the latter's receptacle accommodating the toilet paper roll.
Fundamentally, the adapter can be distributed in the scope of household supplies as a comparatively simple retrofit article to be manufactured at a low cost, or it can be added as an advertising supplement to multipacks of coreless toilet paper rolls. In this regard, the adapter will increase the acceptance of consumers towards the novel coreless toilet paper rolls, thus supporting the distribution of these environmentally acceptable rolls .
Further features, details and advantages embodiments of the adapter according to the invention will become apparent from the subclaims and the ensuing description of an exemplary embodiment of the subject matter of the invention, taken in conjunction with the attached drawings, in which
FIG. 1 is a lateral view of an adapter with several dispensers of conventional design being roughly outlined, and
FIGS. 2 and 3 are plan views of the adapter in its position of mounting on different dispensers.
As seen in FIGS. 1 to 3, the adapter 1 in the form of an injection-molded part has a substantially semicylindrical receptacle 2 open to the top, into which to place a coreless toilet paper roll 3. The receptacle 2 comprises a semicylindrical casing wall 4 and approximately semicircular sidewalls 5, 6, which finish the receptacle 2 laterally. The sidewalls 5, 6 are provided with several triangular recesses 7 for material saving purposes.
Further, the adapter 1 is provided with various suspension arrangements 8, 8', by means of which it can be fastened to conventional mountings 9, 9', 9" of wall-mounted toilet paper dispensers 10. As a rule, such wall-mounted dispensers 10 have a fastening plate 12, which must be applied over its full surface on a wall 11, and from which the actual holding elements stick out. A typical wall-mounted dispenser 10 is shown by dash-dotted l
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Reinheimer Horst Alfred
Stary Christof Karl
Darling John P.
Huston Larry L.
Linman E. Kelly
The Procter & Gamble & Company
Vitenberg Vladimir
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