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Originally Posted by lspencer534
This is patent number 465,599 dated December 22, 1891.
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No, it isn't.
That patent number was issued on Dec 22, 1891, but it's for a bicycle part.
US Patent 465599
I'm not sure when the roll configuration itself came about, but it clearly existed prior to Sept 15, 1891, when Seth Wheeler received patent #459,516 for the idea of incorporating pre-sliced sections in the material:
US Patent 459516
That same person also received a patent for a slight variation of that idea (with serrated seams), which is number 465,588 and dated Dec 22, 1891:
US Patent 465588
But these are both noted as "improvements in toilet paper rolls", they are not patents for the roll itself.
