System and method for dissipating static electricity in an electronic sheet material dispenser

1. An electronic dispenser for dispensing a measured sheet from a roll of web material, comprising:

a housing having an internal volume so as to retain at least one roll of web material therein;

an electronically powered dispensing mechanism contained within said housing for dispensing a measured sheet from the roll of web material upon actuation of said dispensing mechanism;

a passive, self-discharging static charge dissipating material incorporated with at least one internal component within said internal volume of said housing that stores static charge generated by operation of said dispenser; and

wherein said internal component is a thermally molded polymer component, said static charge dissipating material comprising an antistatic agent directly blended into the melt state of a polymer composition used to form said component so as to form a homogenously dispersed component of said polymer composition.

2. The dispenser as in claim 1 , wherein said static charge dissipating material is incorporated with a plurality of different components within said internal volume of said housing.

3. The dispenser as in claim 1 , wherein said static charge dissipating material is incorporated with a component along which the web material runs in its conveying path through said dispenser.

4. The dispenser as in claim 3 , wherein said static charge dissipating material is incorporated with a throat portion of said dispenser along which the web material slides as it is dispensed from said dispenser.

5. The dispenser as in claim 1 , wherein said static charge dissipating material is incorporated with a tear bar against which the web material is contacted to separate the web material into a sheet.

6. The dispenser as in claim 1 , wherein said static charge dissipating material is incorporated with a drive roller component of said dispensing mechanism.

7. The dispenser as in claim 1 , wherein said static charge dissipating material is incorporated with a pressure roller component of said dispensing mechanism.

8. The dispenser as in claim 1 , wherein said static charge dissipating material is applied to a web fuel gauge bar that contacts the roll of web material.

9. The dispenser as in claim 1 , wherein said dispenser is configured as an automatic towel dispenser.

10. The dispenser as in claim 1 , wherein said dispenser is configured as a toilet tissue dispenser.