End roll protector

Claim 1

End protectors for a roll of pliable sheet material wound on an inner tube, said roll having substantially flat end faces and said inner tube slightly protruding from said end faces, each said end protector made of a one-piece molded member of expanded cellular synthetic resin consisting of a disc having an inner and an outer face, and of an extension of outer cylindrical shape, protruding from the inner face of said disc and co-axial therewith, said disc and extension having a cylindrical through bore co-axial therewith, said disc having a flat and continuous outer surface, except for the opening defined by said through bore, said inner face of said disc having an annular groove adjacent the external surface of said extension, but being otherwise flat and continuous, said disc having a diameter at least equal to the diameter of said roll, said extension protruding from said disc inner face a distance between one-tenth and one-eighth the diameter of said disc and adapted to frictionally and removably engage said inner tube with the protruding end of said tube fitting said annular groove and with said inner flat face against the end face of said roll, said roll, when fitted with such end protectors, being adapted to be stood on end on a flat horizontal support surface and one on top of the other.