Toilet paper roll holding device

Claim 1

A toilet paper roll holding device comprising an elongated vertically extending housing opening at the top and bottom ends for receiving a plurality of toilet paper rolls one upon another and including a front wall provided with a paper dispensing window, a rear wall spaced from and parallel to said front wall and a pair of spaced and parallel side walls; a top cover pivoted to said open top end of the housing; a bottom cover pivoted to said open bottom end of the housing; and a paper shearing blade provided on said front wall adjacent to said dispensing window, a rockable paper roll receiving and core discharge member pivoted adjacent to the top end to said side walls and including a pair of opposite and spaced parallel upright arms integrally connected at their front edges by a transverse connection part, each of said upright arms bulging rearwardly and downwardly to position the center of gravity thereof at a point below the mid-point of the height to be urged forwardly by the weight of a paper roll in the dispensing position adjacent to said window and pivots backwardly as the paper roll is consumed and having a core engaging bent upper end for moving to engage and disengage from the underside of the lowest one of said paper roll cores, the rear edge provided with an upper larger arcuate recess and a lower smaller arcuate recess separated from said upper recess by an intermediate projection and the upwardly arcuated lower edge; a pair of upwardly arcuated guide tracks formed with the inner surfaces of said side walls in a position to slidably engage said arcuated lower edges of the arms so as to hold said paper roll in the dispensing position in cooperation with said lower smaller recesses in the rear edges of the arms and to slidably guide said rockable member and the core of said paper roll in the dispensing position as the paper roll is consumed and the rockable member pivots rearwardly accordingly to move the empty core to the discharge position; and operation means for said rockable member to positively pivot the rockable member and slide the member on said tracks rearwardly.