Core-buckling tissue dispenser and dispensing method

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A dispenser and dispensing method for flexible web material that is wound into a roll on a readily deformable hollow core has a housing carrying opposed parallel guide tracks to guidingly receive roll core supports projecting from the roll ends and a spring biased lever pivoted on such housing, the lever applying an axial force to the hollow core at one roll end and being maintained in a roll retaining condition by the presence, in a roll dispensing position of a hollow roll core that, is held against downward displacement from such position. An axial force is applied against the other end of the hollow core. The lever serves to retain a reserve roll in a reserve roll position remote from …