DISPENSER FOR WEB OF PERFORATED TOWELING SHEETS

A hard rolled web of paper toweling or the like has spaced transverse rows of perforations defining separate sheets. A dispenser for advancing the web from its storage cabinet comprises a lever which does not directly actuate the web but stores energy in a spring. After predetermined handle movement, a trip releases the spring for actuation of a feed roll to eject a precisely predetermined length of web. When a new roll is inserted, the remaining end of the old roll is ejected along with corresponding components of the new roll, it being found that this disposition of the remainder of the original web satisfies consumers by temporarily supplying multiple plies, thus using such a remainder to good advantage by tending to prevent consumers from re-cycling the lever and spring to withdraw a second length of toweling.