Paper dispenser

Claim 1

A paper dispenser for wrapper paper, especially layering strips for foodstuff slices, in the form of a paper-strip dispenser unit disposed below a working surface to facilitates feeding individual strips of paper onto said surface in succession to receive respective multiplicities of overlapping slices, said dispenser unit comprising: an elongate container receiving a stack of said paper strips and disposed below said surface, said container having a bottom wall extending horizontally below said surface and formed with an upwardly bent portion bent arcuately upwardly at an edge through an angle of substantially 90° thereof to extend above said surface, whereby said stack in the region of the upwardly bent portion of said bottom wall has a fanned out edge disposed above said surface, and an upwardly and inwardly inclined wall oblique to said portion of said bottom wall along which said edge of said stack is fanned out, said oblique wall extending from an upper end of said portion of said bottom wall toward the interior of said container, said oblique wall being formed with a finger-receiving cutout enabling individual strips of paper to be withdrawn from said stack directly over said surface, said container also comprising a back wall opposite said portion and a pair of side walls, said stack being dimensioned to extend the full length of said container between said oblique wall and said back wall and having a width substantially corresponding to the spacing between said side walls, said back wall being provided with a leaf spring pressing downwardly upon said stack, said oblique wall being provided adjacent said cutout with a pair of downwardly extending lugs engageable at least with an uppermost sheet of said stack for retaining same until said uppermost sheet is withdrawn from said stack.