A dispenser from which sheet material may be dispensed from a supply of the
sheet material carried on the dispenser. The dispenser has a frame on
which the roll of sheet material is journaled for rotation about its axis.
An elongate blade fixed to the frame has a sharp cutting edge that is
adapted for transversely cutting the sheet material after a desired length
of the sheet material has been dispensed. A guard strip of resiliently
movable material extends along one major surface of the blade and along
the cutting edge to help protect the sheet material and/or users of the
dispenser from the cutting edge. That guard strip is resiliently movable
by pulling the sheet material toward the cutting edge to allow the cutting
edge to transversely sever the sheet material being pulled from the
dispenser.
