US 12,127,717 B2
Paper product dispenser cutting system
Richard P. Lewis, Marietta, GA (US); Matthew T. Woerpel, Lodi, WI (US); Jeffrey J. Brickl, Prairie du Sac, WI (US); Edward A. Raleigh, Lodi, WI (US); Robert J. Godfrey, Monona, WI (US); Blake Wagner, Poynette, WI (US); Morgan Lowery, DeForest, WI (US); Gregory J. Hallingstad, DeForest, WI (US); Chad N. Klink, Beaver Dam, WI (US); and Luke J. Sackash, Madison, WI (US)
Assigned to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US)
Appl. No. 17/607,477
Filed by Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US)
PCT Filed Apr. 23, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/029581
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 29, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/223110, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 5, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/841,120, filed on Apr. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0192440 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. A47K 10/36 (2006.01)
CPC A47K 10/3643 (2013.01) [A47K 10/3606 (2013.01); A47K 2010/3668 (2013.01); Y10T 83/4766 (2015.04)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A paper product dispenser comprising:
a housing comprising a product holding area configured to hold a roll;
a rotating member configured to rotate, in a first direction, in response to rotation of the roll;
a cutting surface in the housing;
a cutting blade coupled to the rotating member and having a first position, and a second position in which the cutting blade is in contact with the cutting surface, wherein the rotating member is configured to (i) move the cutting blade from the first position to the second position during a first portion of a rotation cycle of the roll in the first direction and (ii) move the cutting blade from the second position to the first position during a second portion of the rotation cycle of the roll in the first direction; and wherein the rotating member includes a first circular gear with gear teeth along less than all of its circumference and the rotating member includes a second circular gear with gear teeth along its entire circumference, wherein the first circular gear and the second circular gear are in a side-by-side relationship and have a same axis of rotation.