Perfect Tear Chrome Paper Towel Holder, Horizontal Wall-Mounted

by Lifetime Brands

• 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

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12.4 x 4.5 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00029QOW2
• Item model number: 4539
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (315 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,247 in Home & Kitchen (See Top 100 in Home & Kitchen)
  • #70 in Home & Kitchen > Kitchen & Dining > Storage & Organization > Paper Towel Holders

Product Description

Amazon.com

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

Product Description

4539 Features: -Perfect tear paper towel holder.-Technology ensures absolutely no unraveling from the roll.-Simple one-hand operation, just pull and tear with perfect results.-Paper towel roll simply slides on and off holder, no end cap to remove.-Hand wash. Includes: -Easily mounts under cabinet or to wall, mounting hardware included. Dimensions: -Dimensions: 13.58'' H x 1.97'' W x 5.12'' D.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

160 of 162 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow! It's great! September 6, 2005

By Jon Jasper

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.

133 of 136 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed after trying two of these...Updated February 26, 2010

By N. Bishop

Amazon Verified Purchase

Initial Review Posted 2-26-10: With my family having the wasteful habit of tearing off 2 to 4 sheets to wipe up a few droplets on the counter, this holder is one of the best investments I have made in awhile. My family was going through $30 per month in rolls and now the usage is down to less than $15 per month. Made my money back in less than 2 weeks!

4-3-10 Update after using the product:

I purchased 2 of these and now find that although initially these holders worked excellent and as advertised, I now have no recourse but to downgrade my rating from 5 stars to 2 stars. The problem with this product is not the design - in fact the ratcheting/tension mechanism is pure genius. The problem lies in the materials they used to manufacture the product. After disassembling the broken holders I found that the internal ratchet that produces the tension on the spool is made of the cheapest thin brittle plastic I've seen. The plastic spline on the ratchet on both units broke with normal use within a month. After they break, all you have is a normal roller without tension. Had they thought of upgrading the material to metal for the ratchet/spline and charged a little more for this product, I'm quite sure people would be happy to pay a bit more for this product, as it was very useful before it broke.

46 of 47 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Elegant and functional March 1, 2007

By Randall Black

Amazon Verified Purchase

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!

45 of 49 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars works well but a little noisy March 29, 2005

By Doktor Octo

Amazon Verified Purchase

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.

43 of 47 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Like an unfaithful lover May 18, 2009

By L. Mowder

Amazon Verified Purchase

Oh how happy I was when we first met! It was everything I'd ever dreamt a a paper towel holder could be. Stylish, responsive, and never wasted my time or a single towel. I bragged about it to my friends and family - I'd finally met a towel holder I could imagine living with for a lifetime. If only all kitchen appliances could work so well. It made me smile just to tear off a towel with which to clean the stovetop.

Now it's three months later, and it has betrayed me. It has stopped working. I am all the more disheartened, because I had been expecting so much. The ratcheting system that had been the basis of our special relationship is broken, gone, as if it had never existed. Towel rolls just spin freely, as they do with any other cheap towel holder. And try as I might, I cannot find any way to repair it! There isn't even a website with an address to which to direct a letter.

This paper towel holder raised my hopes for performance to a height I'd never seen before, only to callously fling them down to the stony ground far below.

If you want to get your heart broken and your hopes dashed by yet another kitchen appurtenance, buy this. Otherwise, you are better off with the plastic gimcrackery you can get at the supermarket. At least that junk costs far less.

This is going in the pile of modern kitchen appliances that are garbage, next to the three toaster-ovens I'd tried in the past five years. What ever happened to quality?

Seriously - a major disappointment, appliance-wise.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than I anticipated February 28, 2007

By DaliDrama

Amazon Verified Purchase

When I bought this, it was only $10.99, a price a bit too low for me to consider it to be a high quality product. Now, I don't often write reviews, and considering that I am writing a review for a paper towell holder on top of that means I thoroughly enjoy the product. It holds the towell roll tight and firm and gives a nice steady click as it turns. I attached it to my wall (you can hang it upside down or vertically) and it is amazing. AMAZING! Thinking about a paper towell holder? Look no more. This product was much, much more than I anticipated.