Fixture for packages of folded paper or other material.

Application filed August 27,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Charles W. Morden, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Portland, county of Mult5 nomah, State of Oregon, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Fixtures for Packages of Folded Paper or Other Material, of which the following is a specification. .

The object of my invention is to provide an inexpensive wall fixture serviceable for holding toilet paper, of paper towels, put up in package form, particularly a package made up from a reversely folded continuous strip divided into partly severed sheets, and made with apertures to permit it to be placed on the supporting member of my fixture. It is also'my object, incidentally, to provide for an automatic forward feed of the paper contained in the-fixture by gravitation. My fixture is furthermore especially designed for holding the package of paper invented by me contemporaneously with this fixture.

The features of my invention are best understood by the description of the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my fixture in its simplest form, and illustrates the prac30 tical use of my fixture;

Fig. l^a is a detail of the wall bracket of this type of fixture.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of my fixture related to the view thereof shown in Fig. 1;

5 Fig. 2^a is a detail of the back or gravity plate of my. fixture, showing a section on the line x—x of Fig. 2.

Fig. 2^b is a detail of construction fully described in the body of the. specification;

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of my fixture when constructed, in the form of a case concealing within the package, but exposing the end of the outermost sheet;

Fig. 4 is a vertical section taken approxi45 mately on the line 4—4 . of Fig. 3; in this view the paper package is shown in broken outline;

Fig. 5 is a plan view showing a detail ot construction of a convenient type of lock for locking the case shut;

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary plan or top view of a strip of paper from which to form a package adapted for use in either of the described types of my fixture; .

Fig. 6^a is a side elevation of such strip ot paper; . .

Fig. 7 is a diagrammatic side elevation

Letters Patent. Patented Mar. 13,1917.

1914. Serial No. 858,963.

illustrating the folding of the strip of paper in the process of forming a package adapted for use in that type of my fixture which in- 60 eludes downwardly inclined supporting members, for the purpose of feeding the paper forward by. gravitation;

Fig. 8 shows how the strip, of which my package is formed, would be constructed in 65 order to adapt the package to be supported from a wall fixture provided with only a single supporting member;

Figs. 9 and 10 show this type of package as supported by such fixture, Fig. 9 showing 70 a front elevation and Fig. 10 a side elevation; . .

Fig. 11 shows a perspective front view of this type of fixture; and

Fig·. 12 shows a diagrammatic top view of 75 the package supported thereby.

I will describe the construction of the open or simple type of my fixture first. The wall bracket, «, is made of resilient wire rod and comprises a cross bar made with ears a' 80 for receiving screws dr for affixing to a wall. The ends of the bracket are formed into parallel supporting members, or arms δ, δ, preferably downwardly inclined so as to cause the paper mounted thereon to feed for- 85 ward by gravitation; and the extremities of such arms are formed with in-bent portions c, c, constituting retaining means for the keeper g. The latter may also be macle, of wire, and the sides thereof are made with 90 loops, as at h, h, so as to be adapted to be locked with said in-bent portions c, c, of the arms δ, δ, of the bracket. Back of the keeper g and slidably mounted on said arms of the bracket, a, is a back or gravity plate i. The 95 latteil is notched at its sides as at so that it may be mounted on the arms δ of the bracket, to do which the arms are sprung apart. To prevent the gravity plate, i, from accidentally coming off the arms, δ, it is made with lugs, 100 as k. (see Fig. 2^a) at its sides, in which lugs are inserted locking pins I. The gravity plate is not indispensable, but convenient. It may be substituted by a sheet of cardboard slidably mounted on said arms of the 105 wall bracket.

The in-bent extremities, c, c, of the arms δ δ are so arranged as to be located over the unslitted portions connecting the sheets of the package; and the act of pulling the free 110 end m³-of the overlying sheet forward will sever said connecting portions.

In order to hold the keeper g firmly it may be made with an integral piece /, con1,219,366 a

nected by a tie wire f to the knuckle, e, formed at the lower end of a plate cl, pendently supported on the cross-bar of the wall bracket a by its knuckle d'. Compare Figs. 5 1, l^a and.2, 2^b. A screw d² holds the plate d rigid.

The paper package, n, to be used in my described type of fixture is made as illustrated in Figs. 6 and 7. It consists of a con10 tihuous strip of paper reversely creased at w? so as to form folds m^a, m⁷, as illustrated in Fig. 7. The creases are alternately spaced farther apart and brought nearer together so that the folds will be stepped progres1-5 sively and the package will assume a parallel ogra inic form conforming with the inclination given to the:supporting arms 6, 1) of the wall bracket a. When so arranged, the slits or perforations W of the strip will (as 20 graphically illustrated by the dash and dot linem? of Fig. 7) divide the package into a plurality of consecutive, folded sheets partially severed from each other, and alternately located at the top and bottom of the 25 package.

The paper package is inserted by springing the arms, &, of the bracket, cl, sufficiently apart so that, their in-bent extremities, d, may pass through the slots mⁱ at the sides 30 of the paper package.

If it is preferred to inclose the paper package in a case, then my fixture will be macle as shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

. The case, n, consists of a bottom, a front, 35 sides and an inclined^- top integrally formed. The case is hinged at n' to a wall plate o, secured to the wall by screws o', as shown in Fig. 4. ' .At the sides of the wall plate, o, are pro40 vided perforated lugs t, in which are inserted the inner, bent portions of the arms u, u, made of resilient wire, the front ends of which arms are formed with inturned portions as at u'. The front n' of the case is the 45 equivalent of the keeper of my first described type of fixture. This keejier element n' has a space w cut out through which the end of the paper strip may be drawn, as represented by the dotted line m? in Fig. 4; 50 and the keeper element n' has inwardly projecting, perforated integral portions 'n·, located in such cut-out part, through which the in-bent ends u' of the. arms u are inserted, as shown in Fig. 3. The arms a are 55 downwardly inclined so as to cause the paper to feed forward by gravitation.

The top of the case, n, is locked to the top of the wall plate, o, by a locking device comprising an arrow-head lug o² and a locking 60 member p consisting of a pair of resilient arms made of one piece of wire connecting a bow-like portion, p² by which the locking member is secured on a stud q on the plate AS which is riveted to the· underside of the 65 top of the case by a rivet κ The resilient arms p' grasp the arrow head of the lug o², as shown in Fig.. 5.. The top of the case has a key-hole n² for inserting a key s, made with oppositely; projecting webs, which, when the key is turned, spread the arms p'. ₇₀of the locking member apart, as shown in. dotted lines in Fig, 5, and thus disengage . said locking member from the lug o².

The paper package used for this type of fixture is of the same construction as that 75 used for the open type of my fixture.

A very simple type of my fixture, embodying the essential feature's of the other types of my fixture above- described, is shown 111 Fig. 11._; It consists of a wall go plate 2, from which projects a hook 3. The latter is made with a shouldered head 4, exteriorly convexed so as to facilitate its insertion in the aperture of the package to be suspended from this fixture; the head 4 §5 serving to keep the package from slipping off⁷ the hook 3. A wire rod 5 is rotatably inserted in the bore of the portions 6, 6 of the ivall plate 2, and the ends of the rod 5 are formed into arms 7, 7, the extremities 8, 8 90 of which are bent inward and weighted pieces 9, 9 are thereon secured.

The paper package to be suspended from this type of fixture must be formed as illustrated in Fig. 8. 10 represents the strip, 11 95 the creases, and 12 the slits, these being made in similar manner as shown in Fig. 6 and above described. But the strip 10, instead of having notches cut in its sides, has cut-out apertures 13, located as shown in Fig. 8, and 100 such apertures, when the strip is folded in the manner shown in Fig. 12, will be properly located for hanging the package 14 oh.· the hook 3 of my fixture illustrated in Fig. 11. The pivoted rod 5 of the latter, and 105 its arms 7, 7, constitute the keeper operating to hold back the folds at the*front of the package, but do not interfere with the tearing, off of the sheets .15, 16 of the package, which tearing off is done by a side motion of 110 the hand. In placing the package 14 on its fixture, the keeper of the latter is lifted above the hook 3, the package is placed on the latter, and then the keeper is dropped against the face of the package. As sheets 115 are torn off of the package, the keeper will ⁷follow, and in so doing continue to perform its function.

The slots 17 at the, sides of the strip 10 have no·¹ bearing on the invention; they 120 merely are provided in practice for facilitating the folding of the paper mechanically.

The inner face 4^a of the hook 4 is made with a knife-edge so as to facilitate the severing of the unperforated portion of paper 125 connecting consecutive sheets.