Paper Towel Retention Bracket

Probably like many people I keep a roll of paper towels in the back of my car. And that roll of paper towels unrolls as it moves around the cargo area. No matter where I wedge it, the roll manages to get loose and the next thing I know I have paper towels everywhere. I looked around the various communities to see who has come up with some sort of solution. There are thousands of paper towel holders out there! However every single one I looked at either wouldn’t retain the paper towels from unraveling or used way too much filament. So it was time to design my own. I wanted something simple and that could adjust as the diameter of the paper towels shrank from use. So after a number of iterations version 1 of the PTRB was born. This version uses a central spine with pins on each end. Attached to the pins is an adjustable bracket that holds the end of paper towel against the roll, keeping it from unraveling. It’s not so tight that you can’t pull off a paper towel and as paper towels are us