Product Description

The Perfect Tear? Paper Towel Dispenser features unique, Patent Pending technology. An internal ratcheting mechanism ensures that you will get the number of sheets that you want while using only one hand. With the Perfect Tear? Paper Towel Holder you can choose to dispense one or many paper towels without the roll unraveling. Featuring a polished chrome finish this Paper Towel Dispenser will blend with any d?cor. Mount this Paper Towel Holder to the wall or beneath a cabinet in the kitchen, u

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6736 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Lifetime Brands
• Model: 4539
• Dimensions: 2.20" h x 4.50" w x 12.40" l, 1.50 pounds

Features

• Paper towel holder allows easy tearing of a single sheet with just one hand
• Made of bright chrome-finish metal
• Ratchet system lets towel roll turn without unraveling
• Heavy chrome arm screws into wall for horizontal disbursing
• 11-inch rod and wire cage fits any size roll

Amazon.com Review
The Perfect Tear paper towel holder eliminates waste by allowing exactly the desired number of paper towel sheets to be torn off the roll with just one hand. The secret lies in the secure, horizontally wall-mounted base and the ratchet system inside the towel holder. By allowing the roll to make incremental turns in just one direction, the ratchet holds the roll steady during pulling and tearing, thus preventing unraveling.

Three parts come with this towel holder: a weighted chrome arm that protrudes five inches from the wall (two screw holes are on a two-inch center; two 1-1/8-inch screws and two plastic sleeves are included); an 11-inch metal dowel that screws into the arm and features a bullet-shape tip; and a flexible wire cage through which the central dowel passes that conforms to the inside cardboard tube of a paper towel roll. The dowel and cage attach to the arm without tools, but a Phillips-head screwdriver (and possibly a drill) is needed for the wall-mounting. Both standard and oversized rolls slide onto the holder. --Ann Bieri

Customer Reviews

Wow! It's great!
You'd think it would be hard to get excited by something as inane as a paper towel holder. I originally saw this product in several mail-order catalogues, priced at 30 - 40 dollars. For the 10 bucks it's priced at here, it is WELL worth it! I work behind a bar and have two of this item back there - being a bartender I'm almost constantly wet from being elbow deep in the sinks. I hate handling things or making drinks with wet hands, so on a busy night I probably go through 7 or 8 full rolls of towels. I use so many, a customer recently asked if I was Obsessive Compulsive - not quite, but I like clean and dry surfaces everywhere around the bar. These holders have held up well, I thought the ratcheting mechanism might be cheaply made and eventually give out - no sign of that yet. The ratchet is well made and well balanced - not so much resistance as to force you to dispense a single sheet at a time, but enough that you can tear whatever you've pulled off at the perforation every time. It's also solidly built and handles abuse really well - when busy, I won't fuss with a delicate mechanism - everything gets slammed around and knocked around with considerable force. Towel rolls remount quickly and easily. I'm pretty rough on equipment and have broken most things behind that bar at least once. This product definitely holds up under the toughest commercial abuse. If you're a big fan of the oversized rolls, they may rub against whatever surface you mount this too, but it still works.

Elegant and functional
Hold the cardboard tube, not the towels, as you press a roll onto the spindle or the towels will "telescope." No yanking off 20 towels by accident and true one-handed operation. Solid construction and unobtrusive footprint. Great product!

works well but a little noisy
The product works as advertised: You can tear off a paper towel with one hand with no ripping.

The only downside is that it is a bit noisy due to the ratchet system used.

Decent design in terms of both functionality and appearance.

Note: I have mine oriented horizontally. The experience may be different if mounted vertically.