The great Cecil Adams, in his Straight Dope column, once offered an aside on an entirely different topic, saying (paraphrase) "I know this the same way I know the toilet paper goes over the roll towards you. Don't ask me how I know. I just know."
Strange. I'm currently writing an article about whether and how you can feel at home somewhere by paying attention to which direction you intuitively reach for the toilet paper in the bathroom. I'm researching toilet paper and toilet paper holders, and then your post pops up in my feed. Sometimes I'm not quite sure if it's all coincidence or some form of destiny. Anyway, thank you. I no longer have any doubts.
I have to say that the patent you're mentioning is a patent to improve toilet paper. Here's a separate earlier patent with a better illustration than makes an even better point and is likely the original patent: patents.google.com/patent/US45β¦
Have you ever seen the original patents for the Wright Brothers flying machine, or Logie-Bairds television? Things get improved over time, and eventually do things in a completely different way. In this case, loo roll has been improved by mounting it in a more aesthetically pleasing configuration... π
Intended is not the same as correct. This is just an appeal to authority. I have NEVER heard a single reason why this is the correct way to do this. What benefit is there?
I never had any doubt. When I was a child my parents had a toilet roll holder which would automatically grip the roll so you could easily tear it off with one hand.
The gripping mechanism only worked the right way around, so I've always been used to the right way being the only way.
I m sorry, but it's a patent drawing, and needs to clearly show function. Drawing it with the paper out the back would have been harder to comprehend. But go ahead and hang it how you want. I assume you don't have cats, or don't mind periodic piles of TP under the dispenser...
I hear some people voluntarily reverse it to see who will mansplain them the fine art of replacing a toilet paper roll, or just sneakily reverse it π
Have they cleverly avoided the issue by placing the axis vertically, or have they just opened another rift in society by unrolling from the right π± when "everyone" knows that it MUST be unrolled from the left?
Which is why you should always put it on with the paper to the wall! The last thing you want is to have some patent troll come into your bathroom and sue you for infringement! Right ?!?
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in reply to Natasha Jay πͺπΊ • • •The great Cecil Adams, in his Straight Dope column, once offered an aside on an entirely different topic, saying (paraphrase) "I know this the same way I know the toilet paper goes over the roll towards you. Don't ask me how I know. I just know."
Words to live by.
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So does not apply.
Doing it my own way.
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In this case, loo roll has been improved by mounting it in a more aesthetically pleasing configuration... π
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in reply to Natasha Jay πͺπΊ • • •I never had any doubt. When I was a child my parents had a toilet roll holder which would automatically grip the roll so you could easily tear it off with one hand.
The gripping mechanism only worked the right way around, so I've always been used to the right way being the only way.
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in reply to Natasha Jay πͺπΊ • • •There is no wrong way. Plenty of patents evolved over time and whatever their inventors intended no longer matters.
It's more important to use it than how you hang it.
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Also whoever wrote this patent doesn't have cats!
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Have they cleverly avoided the issue by placing the axis vertically, or have they just opened another rift in society by unrolling from the right π± when "everyone" knows that it MUST be unrolled from the left?
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