For Folded Sheetlike Article Patents (Class 206/494)
  • Patent number: 11833019
    Abstract: A package of one or more absorbent articles, wherein the one or more absorbent articles are sealed within the package is disclosed. The package includes a plurality of panels, including a consumer-facing panel; a plurality of seals included by at least a portion of the plurality of panels. Each of the plurality of seals has adhesive disposed in a seal area. One or more of the plurality of seals has an adhesive area which is greater than its corresponding seal area. The package material has natural fibers and a basis weight of between 50 gsm to 120 gsm, as determined via ISO 536 as modified herein. And, the package material is recyclable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Michael Remus, Edward Daniel Theiss, III, Michael Wayne Taylor, Michaela Monika Czupik, Emily Charlotte Boswell, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Patti Jean Kellett, Peter Kramkowski, Ilana Jessica Krause, Lee Matthew Arent
  • Patent number: 11596248
    Abstract: A napkin having a utensil pocket is formed by folding a napkin in half along a first fold line, folding the napkin into quarters along a second fold line perpendicular to the first fold line to form a first quarter section and a second quarter section, and inserting a food grade glue in a pocket pattern between the first quarter section and the second quarter section. The pocket pattern has an opening at one end with respective sides formed by folding the first quarter section over the second quarter section to engage the food grade glue to glue together the first quarter section and the second quarter section to form the utensil pocket between the first quarter section and the second quarter section. When the napkin is made from cloth, the pocket may be stitched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Inventor: Diane S. Hawkins
  • Patent number: 11447303
    Abstract: The present Utility Model discloses a flip cover for wet wipes, comprising an upper flip cover and a lower drawing cover, wherein the lower drawing cover is provided with a drawing port, the upper flip cover comprises a fixing cover, a flip cover and a connecting elastic bar, the two ends of the connecting elastic bar are connected with the fixing cover and the flip cover, respectively, the lower surface of the fixing cover is provided with a downward convex insert strip, and the fixing cover is connected to the lower drawing cover through the insert strip; the front end of the flip cover is provided with an internally concave upper clipping strip and is elastically engaged with the lower drawing cover through the clipping strip; the upper surface of the connecting elastic bar is provided with convex strips which are extruded from the upper surface of the connecting elastic bar and are supported against the upper edge of the slot of the fixing cover after the flip cover is turned to a certain angle; when the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: TOP GREEN WORLD PACKAGING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ling-da Wang
  • Patent number: 11440267
    Abstract: During the manufacturing process the exterior surface of one or both of the sheets of plastic film which form the bags is treated with low temperature corona discharge plasma to raise the level of surface charge magnitude to at least 43 Dyne to increase the adhesion force between the bags. A recess is formed in each of the bags to further increase the adhesion. The increased adhesion causes the mouth of one bag to automatically open as the adjacent bag is removed from the rack. The recess is formed at the same time openings are created in the bags to accept the support rods of a dispensing rack. The bags can have simple edge sides or side gussets and may be provided in a package including a pouch which receives and supports the lower portions of the bags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: New York Packaging II
    Inventor: Jeffrey Rabiea
  • Patent number: 11304858
    Abstract: An absorbent article has a front side, a back side, a longitudinal axis, a liquid permeable topsheet, a liquid impermeable backsheet and an absorbent core between the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent core includes a first type of channels, wherein the top side and the bottom side of the core wrap are bonded to another, and a second type of channels, wherein the top side and the bottom side of the core wrap are not bonded or are less bonded to one another in this second type of channels than in the first type of channels. The absorbent material may also include cellulose and superabsorbent particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi
  • Patent number: 11203477
    Abstract: A package is described that includes a laminate structure with a first layer and a second layer. The first layer is adjacent a compartment of the package and includes a predefined cut through which access is provided to the contents of the package. The second layer includes an integrated pull strip that is at least partially defined by a line of weakness formed in the second layer. The pull strip overlies the predefined cut and is configured to be separated from a remainder of the second layer by a user. In this way, separation of the pull strip from the package (e.g., as the pull strip is peeled away from the package) may serve to expose the predefined cut and allows the first and second edges to be moved apart to provide access to the compartment and the contents stored therein via the predefined cut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: SONOCO DEVELOPMENT, INC.
    Inventor: Scott Huntington Hartley
  • Patent number: 11197787
    Abstract: A package formed of flexible polymeric film and having a line of weakness to facilitate opening of the package and to demarcate a package base and a package hood is disclosed. The package hood may be configured so as to serve as an effective package reclosure device whereby the package may be used to store the unused supply of articles following opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Astrid Annette Sheehan
  • Patent number: 11136180
    Abstract: A consumable product dispenser comprising: a housing comprising a front cover, a back, two sides, a product holding area defined by the front cover, back and two sides, and a dispenser opening defining an opening in the housing to the product holding area; and wherein the front cover, the back, and two sides are arranged to form a non-rectangular and noncircular cross section for the product holding area in an X-Y plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Marvin E. Swails, David A. Lilley
  • Patent number: 11124349
    Abstract: A shipping system for shipping planar substrates includes a plurality of planar substrates stacked to form a pack and a plurality of interleaving material including substantially spherical beads positioned between the substrates of the pack and configured to carry a load. Substantially all of the beads have a diameter within 25% of Dmax, where Dmax is a diameter corresponding to a size of an opening of an upper limit sieve used in the shipping system. Also disclosed are a spacer for use in a shipping system for shipping planar substrates, a wrapped system for shipping planar substrates, a method of wrapping a system for shipping planar substrates, and a powder applicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Vitro, S.A.B. de C.V.
    Inventors: Farzad Behafarid, Erin A. Casci, Adam D. Polcyn, Lewis P. Bevans
  • Patent number: 11089919
    Abstract: A film-packaged tissue in which wrinkles or twisting is less likely to occur in tissue paper stored in the film package. A bundle of pop-up type tissue paper is film-packaged by a resin packaging film. The inner circumferential length of the packaging film in a short direction of the bundle is 91 to 97% of a theoretical outer circumferential length in the short direction of the bundle, and the compression characteristic (RC) of the film-packaged tissue by KES measurement at a longitudinal center of a bundle upper surface is 45 to 60%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Daio Paper Corporation
    Inventor: Shohei Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10940973
    Abstract: A packaging scheme for identifying consumer goods affiliated with, made and/or sold by a company and/or brand. The packaging scheme provides for a first product and a second product where the first product and the second product are different products, and a first package containing the first product and a second package containing both the first product and the second product. A first visual cue and/or a first packaging construction cue are associated with the first product. A second visual cue and/or a second packaging construction cue are associated with the second product, such that the first package has a first visual cue and/or a first packaging construction cue, while the second package has both a (i) first visual cue and/or a first packaging construction cue, and (ii) a second visual cue and/or a second packaging construction cue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: EDGEWELL PERSONAL CARE BRANDS, LLC
    Inventors: Ilona Bergquist, Sezen Buell, Ricardo de Oliveira, Anna Dietrich, Danielle Kay Gerlach, Adebimpe Ogunade, Richard Timmers, Pankaj Nigam, Kyle Hillegass, Robert F. Rosasco, III
  • Patent number: 10912403
    Abstract: A utensil holder for a table setting and a method of assembling the same may be provided. The utensil holder may include at least one napkin, the napkin being manipulated to form a three-dimensional structure having a cavity; and at least one utensil disposed within the cavity, wherein an outward-facing surface of the three-dimensional structure contains a decorative element. The decorative element may complement a particular theme or decorating motif of a dining occasion. The method of assembling the utensil holder may include a combination of folding techniques that orients one or more napkins into a three-dimensional structure having a cavity for utensils. The utensil holder may be provided with ribbons and other accessories symbolizing various objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Inventors: Sheena Stitt, Tara Marie Stitt
  • Patent number: 10875705
    Abstract: A transport package including a compressible packaging and a packing configuration, the packing configuration including at least three individual stacks of absorbent tissue paper material, and the packaging maintaining said individual stacks in the packing configuration, the transport package forming a rectangular parallelepiped delimited by six outer surfaces, defining three transport package extensions extending along three perpendicular dimensions in space defining a length, a width, and a height of the transport package. A relative deformation of the transport package is defined for each of the three dimensions, being the relative shortening of the transport package extension along a selected dimension when the entire transport package is compressed with a deformation pressure of 15 kPa between two outer surfaces and along the selected dimension, wherein, for said transport package, the relative deformation along at least two out of the three dimensions is less than 10%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAG
    Inventors: Hans Wallenius, Fredrik Welander
  • Patent number: 10869787
    Abstract: An absorbent article such as a diaper comprises a topsheet, a backsheet and an absorbent core. The absorbent layer comprises at least a longitudinally-extending central portion, and a first and second side portions disposed transversally outward of the central portion. The absorbent core further comprises first and second curved folding guides between the central portion and the side portions. Each side portion comprises a plurality of winglets, each winglet having a proximal side relative to a folding guide and extending outward from this proximal side, and wherein neighboring winglets are separated by a gap between their neighboring sides. The central portion and the side portions form a three-dimensional basin when the absorbent core is folded along the folding guides. The absorbent core is substantially free of cellulose fibers. The article further may comprise at least one liquid management layer substantially free of superabsorbent polymer between the topsheet and the absorbent core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger, Hans Adolf Jackels, Claus Peter Stoelzel, Christine Elisabeth Zipf
  • Patent number: 10864122
    Abstract: A package containing a stack of folded disposable absorbent articles, the package being formed of a flexible polymeric film defining a cuboid package having top and bottom surfaces and rear, front, first and second side walls. One or more folding tabs are provided proximal the top surface and extending along a width of one or both of the first and second side walls. Each folding tab has a height of between about 10 mm and about 50 mm in a direction perpendicular to the length of the folding tab and comprises a higher bending stiffness than the flexible polymeric film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Astrid Annette Sheehan
  • Patent number: 10806310
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of wipes dispensers are disclosed herein. An exemplary wipes dispenser having a self-centering nozzle includes a container, a plurality of wipes contained within the container, a fluid for wetting the plurality of wipes, a receiving member connected to the container, and an outlet nozzle housing for holding an elastomeric outlet nozzle. The nozzle housing is connected to the receiving member so that the nozzle housing is movable between two or more positions. A biasing member is connected to one of the receiving member, the nozzle housing and the elastomeric outlet nozzle. The elastomeric outlet nozzle moves from a centered upright position, the biasing member deflects and biases the outlet nozzle toward a centered position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: GOJO Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Mann, Aaron D. Marshall, Nick E. Ciavarella, Jonathan Michael Johnson, Donald R. Harris, Kevin Michael Vail, Jenna Ann Matus
  • Patent number: 10759581
    Abstract: A package containing a plurality of disposable absorbent articles, the package being formed of flexible polymeric film, and having a path of perforations or scoring defining a hood opening structure is disclosed. The hood may be configured so as to serve as an effective package reclosure device whereby the package may be used to store the unused supply of articles following opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Astrid Annette Sheehan, James T. Fenton, Brian Patrick Sellers, Alexander Eberhard Unger, Yoichiro Yamomoto
  • Patent number: 10723531
    Abstract: A container (10) for transporting and displaying strip pack products (20) generally includes a container housing (30) defining a housing interior for containing strip pack products (20). The container housing has at least one flap (32) pivotable between a closed position at least partially enclosing the housing interior and an open position, wherein the strip pack product (20) is suspended from the at least one flap (32) in the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: International Great Brands LLC
    Inventors: Venkatesh Sheregar, Amey Ganu, Sameer Mehendale, Jaswinder Dhadda
  • Patent number: 10604305
    Abstract: A tamper evident bag includes a top panel and a bottom panel connected together to define a bag interior between the top and bottom panels. The top panel defines a receiving opening sized and shaped for inserting one or more items into the bag interior. The top and bottom panels each have a tear line with a first end and a second end, the first and second ends being located at the first side edge margin. The first and second ends of each tear line being spaced apart. The tear lines extend over the top and bottom panels and define respective tear out sections of the top and bottom panels. The tear out sections are joined along the first side edge margin and are configured to be removed to create an exit opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Inteplast Group Corporation
    Inventors: Sumei Lin, Li-yung Chang, Ben Tseng
  • Patent number: 10457465
    Abstract: A disinfectant wipes system (2) comprising: a flexible sealed container (4) containing a plurality of fabric wipe members (6) and a burstable sachet (12); a first part comprising a first reagent in a carrier medium absorbed or impregnated in the fabric wipe members; and a second part within the burstable sachet (12), the second part miscible with the first part and comprising a second reagent in a carrier medium; wherein the first reagent and the second reagent will react when mixed to provide a disinfectant composition; wherein the container (4) has an opening (14) through which the wipe members (6) and the burstable sachet (12) may pass; the opening (14) releasably sealed by an adhesive-backed label (8); and wherein the burstable sachet (12) is separate from the plurality of wipe members (6) so that it can be removed through the opening (14) without removing any of the plurality of wipe members (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: TRISTEL PLC
    Inventors: Julija Shabanova, Esther Jansen, Matthew Ballinger
  • Patent number: 10279951
    Abstract: A carton (90) for packaging one or more articles (A) includes a plurality of panels (12, 14, 16, 18) for forming a tubular structure. The plurality of panels include a top panel (16) and a pair of first and second opposed side panels (14, 18) hingedly connected to first and second opposite sides of the top panel respectively. The first and second side panels include first and second corner edges (C2, C1) respectively which are free of hinged connection to any other part of the carton. The first and second corner edges extend from the first and second sides of the top panel respectively. The carton includes a first severance line (70) extending from the first corner and a second severance line (78) extending from the second corner edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Bradford J. Walling, Caleb S. Loftin
  • Patent number: 10189631
    Abstract: A method of dispensing wipes includes providing a stack of wipes. Each wipe is generally rectangular in shape and defines four corners. A dispenser has a dispensing orifice. The method includes grasping a presented corner of a leading wipe, and pulling the presented corner of the leading wipe to withdraw the leading wipe out of the dispenser, whereby the leading wipe releases from a succeeding wipe such that a presented corner of the succeeding wipe, and no other corner of the succeeding wipe, protrudes from the dispensing orifice. In particular embodiments, the presented corner of the leading wipe and the presented corner of the succeeding wipe originate from opposite sides of the stack. In other embodiments, the presented corner of the leading wipe and the presented corner of the succeeding wipe each originate from the same side of the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Kristina Marie Price, Sarah Elizabeth Knight, Finbarr Charles Ronald Williamson, Ryan Leslie Fulscher, Gerald Keith Sosalla, Kendall Jean Wendrick, Gary Alan Turchan
  • Patent number: 10046882
    Abstract: A blank for forming a carton, the blank including a first panel and a second panel adjoining the first panel along a fold line and extending in a longitudinal direction of the blank. A pair of side panels adjoins the second panel at respective fold lines. The side panels extend from the second panel in a transverse direction of the blank. The side panels each having a side panel flap adjoining at a fold line, the side panel flaps extending from the side panels in the longitudinal direction of the blank, toward the first panel. The blank further includes a third panel adjoining the second panel along a fold line and extending in the longitudinal direction of the blank. The blank further includes a fourth panel adjoining the third panel along a fold line and extending in the longitudinal direction of the blank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Malnove Incorporated
    Inventors: Tom Budny, Leo Quinones, Tom Simpson
  • Patent number: 10010226
    Abstract: A package containing a stack of wet wipes moistened with aqueous lotion is disclosed. The package comprises a polymeric film wrap, the film wrap comprising a laminate with an inner layer of a first polymer and an outer layer of a second polymer, and a surface bearing scoring along a path defining a substantially closed shape, the scoring at least partially penetrating the outer layer and not entirely penetrating the inner layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Scott Cameron, Daniel Scott Ebert, Melissa Renee Hickman, Angela Pauly
  • Patent number: 9974419
    Abstract: The present invention is for wipe dispensers for dispensing interconnected wipes. An exemplary wipes dispenser may include a container body and a removable lid forming an interior region into which a plurality of interconnected wipes may be disposed. Pulling on a lead end of a lead wipe causes a following wipe to also be pulled and follow the lead wipe. The removable lid may cover a portion of a container aperture (e.g., an open top of the container body). A landing member in the lid covers a portion of the container aperture by extending from a top rim of the container body toward the middle of the interior region. The landing member may form an angle with a substantially vertical exterior wall of the container, where the formed angle may be less than 90°. In an embodiment, the landing member may include a concavely shaped portion. The landing member may include one or more fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: The Clorox Company
    Inventors: Kerry D. Azelton, Russell E. Bell, Jon Markey, Joshua Glessner
  • Patent number: 9956750
    Abstract: Provided is tissue paper which has softness, smoothness, and moistness either equaling or surpassing those of the existing moisturizing tissue paper and which is also less sticky and is not easily torn in use. The two-ply chemicals applied tissue paper has a configuration in which the amount of the chemicals applied on both side surfaces is 2.0 to 5.5 g/m2, the basis weight per each layer of sheets constituting the two-ply chemicals applied tissue paper is 10 to 25 mg/m2, and the thickness of the two-ply chemicals applied tissue paper is 100 to 140 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Minoru Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 9901220
    Abstract: A pocket tissue includes a stack of paper tissues each of which is folded at a plurality of fold portions and a film package that contains the stack, the pocket tissue allowing the paper tissues to be taken out from a dispense opening formed in an upper surface of the package. Each of the paper tissues includes a first fold portion located at a position that substantially bisects the paper tissue, a second fold portion extending in a longitudinal direction of the paper tissue folded at the first fold portion, and a third fold portion extending in a transverse direction of the paper tissue folded at the second fold portion. The stack is formed by stacking the paper tissues each of which has been folded at the third fold portion to be in a state in which the first fold portion is exposed to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuta Yasui
  • Patent number: 9861537
    Abstract: A gown dispenser system has a plurality of hospital gowns, each having a back region, the gowns folded and stacked back region facing up, such that, pulling on the back region of a gown on top of the stack removes that gown from the stack and exposes the back region of the next gown in the stack, an enclosure containing the stack of gowns, the enclosure having an opening exposing the back region of the gown at the top of the stack, enabling a user to grasp the exposed back region and pull the topmost gown from the enclosure, exposing the next gown in the stack, and an interface mechanism attached to the enclosure, enabling the enclosure to be suspended on a substantially vertical surface, with the opening facing outward from the substantially vertical surface. Gowns are drawn from the enclosure one-at-a-time, at need.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Inventor: Neil Andrew Louwrens
  • Patent number: 9834344
    Abstract: A wet wipe sealing cap structure includes a base ring including a circular upright wall, an annular shoulder horizontally outwardly extended from the circular upright wall and an outer locating unit and an inner locating unit respectively located at opposing inner and outer perimeters of the circular upright wall, a claw plate detachably fastened to the base ring, and a cover device including a collar coupled to the circular upright wall, a cap removably capped on the circular upright wall and a flexible member connected between the cap and the collar. The cap includes a circular cover plate, a cover wall perpendicularly extended around the border edge of the cover plate, an annular inner wall downwardly extended from the cover plate, and a bottom slope located at the annular inner wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: DONZEE ENTERPRISE LTD.
    Inventor: Jin-Yang Hsu
  • Patent number: 9827775
    Abstract: An ink cartridge contains an outer package, an ink container within the outer package, and sheet bodies attached to an outer surface of the outer package, and is attachable to and detachable from a printing device. Small pieces are formed by cuts in the outer package. The small pieces include breakable sections, and the bendable sections. Sheet bodies cover a portion of the small pieces. Pressing on a small piece with a finger breaks the breakable section, and bends the bendable section to press them inside the outer package. A portion of the sheet body then shifts upwards so that the sheet body can be grasped with fingers and peeled away from the outer package. Disassembly and sorting of used cartridges in this way becomes easier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Eijiro Arimura
  • Patent number: 9771201
    Abstract: A glove packaging comprises a container for holding the gloves and a barrier positioned to cover at least a portion of an opening in the container. The barrier protects the gloves from airborne particles and other materials or contaminants that may contaminate the gloves prior to removal from the packaging. The barrier also includes an antimicrobial material for protecting the gloves from microorganisms, pathogens or other materials or contaminants that come in contact with the barrier to further reduce the possibility of contamination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Medline Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Min Yao, Samuel T. H. Amdur, III
  • Patent number: 9708115
    Abstract: A scented sheet member, in which a gelatin gel including at least one of a perfume and a perfume-containing microcapsule is enclosed in a space between film sheets in at least one of which a perfume-permeating hole is formed, is affixed to an inner surface of an upper surface of the containing box so that the at least one of the film sheets having the perfume-permeating hole faces a stack of paper tissues. This can provide a scented paper tissue container that can strengthen a scent when necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norimitsu Hirata, Hisayuki Sakurai
  • Patent number: 9676541
    Abstract: A storage container which allows a user to easily take out sheets from a dispensing opening when the number of sheets is small. A storage container includes: a container body including a top plate where a dispensing opening for taking out the sheets is provided, and an opening formed opposing the top plate; and a bottom lid which is formed of an integrally-molded resin, is detachably mounted to the container body, and closes the opening. The bottom lid includes: a flat plate portion; and an expanding/contracting part transformable from a first state where it protrudes from the flat plate portion up to a first height toward the inside of the container body, to a second state where it protrudes from the flat plate portion up to a second height higher than the first height, toward the inside of the container body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Wada, Terutaka Iwasaki, Takeshi Bando, Takahiro Ueda
  • Patent number: 9650199
    Abstract: A wipe includes a generally flat piece of material (10) made of paper, cloth or the like. The generally flat piece of material (10) is formed into a non-planar form having a three-dimensional shape, for example conical, for storage and dispensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Better All Round Limited
    Inventors: Oday Abbosh, Ian Hamilton Dryburgh, Nigel Lawson
  • Patent number: 9505549
    Abstract: A method of loading a stack of sheet stock material for use by a dunnage conversion machine, includes the following steps: (i) providing first and second stacks, the second stack being protected by a carrier having a central portion and longitudinally-spaced extensions that bound a central portion, the extensions and the central portion being joined along a weakened area defining a tear line, the central portion and the longitudinally-spaced extensions forming a planar bottom panel and a planar side panel, each panel extending substantially the length of the stack, and at a right angle to each other about a fold line over a bottom and an adjacent side of the stack, and one or more bale ties longitudinally inwardly of the tear lines holding the carrier to the stack; (ii) removing the extensions from the carrier; (iii) setting the second stack on top of the first stack; and (iv) removing the bale ties and the carrier, whereby an adhesive bonds the top page of the first stack to the bottom page of the second sta
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Ranpak Corp.
    Inventors: Franklin B. Yap, Steven M. Toneff, Robert C. Cheich, Joseph J. Harding, Judith L. Skiba, James A. Simmons, Jr., James Tekavec, Edward W. Lintala, Erwin Methorst, Koen H. M. Kuypers, Dan Coppus, Raimond P. M. Demers, Pierre Kobben
  • Patent number: 9422090
    Abstract: A silicone extruded tubular spring that has the possibility to be folded around an axis perpendicular to its own axis of extrusion, thus creating the compression and release as of a spring. The base has a reach-in hole on its body to allow the user to reach through. The lid is the base's capping object; it is designed to cover the reach-in hole of the base. It should be designed in a way to limit the area of the remaining gaps of the base's reach-in hole. The extruded tubular spring can store and release energy in order to displace the lid. It can be of any material that provides the appropriate stiffness to activate the lid. The retention latch is the user interface on which he acts in order to have the lid pop-up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Global Dispensing Ltd
    Inventors: Valentin Leung, John Violett
  • Patent number: 9308139
    Abstract: An individual packing product that makes it difficult to see an absorbent product disposed therein, not staining other individual packing products, and easy to put in a bag or pocket and carry. In the individual packing product, the absorbent product having an adhesive portion in a non-skin contact region is packed with a packing sheet. The absorbent product is fixed to the inner side of the packing sheet with the adhesive portion being disposed therebetween, the packing sheet is folded with the absorbent product being disposed therein, the packing sheet has a separable colored portion on the inner side thereof, and although the colored portion can be seen from the outside of the individual packing product, the absorbent product cannot be seen from the outside of the individual packing product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Hashino, Yuki Noda, Shinpei Komatsu, Hideyuki Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 9302843
    Abstract: A web container includes a web storage, a transparent plastic cover, and an intermediate layer. The web storage includes a bag which stores a foldable web and which has a first opening through which the foldable web is to be taken out. The web storage includes a take-out port which is coupled to the first opening. The transparent plastic cover has a polyhedron shape to enclose the web storage. The transparent plastic cover has a second opening provided on one surface of the transparent plastic cover. The second opening is engaged with the take-out port. The intermediate layer includes a flat sheet provided between the cover and the web storage and over at least two adjacent surfaces of the transparent plastic cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Inventor: Kikuo Yamada
  • Patent number: 9232876
    Abstract: In order to achieve both ease of removal and an increase in the rate of impregnation by a predetermined chemical, in this packaging structure of a package of wet wipes, a convex region is formed at a position containing a region that faces the opening of a main package body and that is on the upper surface of a stacked body of wet wipes. The convex region is formed protruding towards the main package body. A space is formed between the region (corresponding to the ends) aside from the convex region formed on the wet wipes and the upper surface to which the opening of the main package body is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Bando, Daisuke Miyake, Ikue Hiramatsu, Yoshihide Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9230388
    Abstract: A holder assembly is provided for safely storing a package of disposable wipes and securely mounting the package of wipes to a wall or table. In one embodiment, the holder assembly has a front wall, a rear wall, and two side walls extending from a base and thereby forming a cavity for receiving the package of disposable wipes. The front wall has a guide channel for slidably receiving a lid assembly connected to the package of wipes. The base of the holder has a plurality of openings for receiving fasteners, such as button head screws or suction cups, for securing the holder to a wall or table. A rear surface of the guide channel has a plurality of ovaloid protrusions configured to engage a tab on the lid and thereby secure the lid to the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Nice-Pak Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert P. Julius, Gerard Anthony Cahalan, Jerry Carstens, Qiuchen Peter Zhang
  • Patent number: 9113648
    Abstract: A package for holding a food product. The package comprises a carton comprising a plurality of panels that extend at least partially around an interior of the carton. The plurality of panels comprises at least two side panels. A tear feature extends at least partially across the plurality of panels for at least partially separating the carton into an upper portion and a lower portion. The package also comprises a liner disposed in the interior of the carton. The liner comprises an expandable region proximate to the tear feature of the carton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, Inc.
    Inventor: Bradley J. Burke
  • Patent number: 9078469
    Abstract: A packaging for manual rolling of cigarettes comprising smoker's accessories like cigarette sheets, filters, sheets, matches, lighters, tobacco and an article usable as an advertising material is characterized in that the base line is foldably divided into two small sides with a narrow band therebetween. The intermediate band is terminated at both sides each time with two triangular parts, providing for creating a handy table for rolling cigarettes. The narrow band is foldably divided in a way that the external parts are embraced by triangular folded corners of smaller sides. While the device is in use, the packaging is opened and put onto a support in a way that small sides are lifted upwards. The triangular sides on both sides of the narrow band are then pushed upwards to create bulges. The two bulges each from its side stop the narrow side and prevent the content from falling from the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Ziggi Proizvodnja In Trgovina, D.O.O.
    Inventors: Jure Stari{hacek over (c)}, An{hacek over (z)}e Pivk, Nahtigal {hacek over (Z)}iga
  • Patent number: 9027754
    Abstract: Containers and dispensers for wiping substrates, and wet wiping substrates in particular, have been provided with lids, the containers have been susceptible to leakage, or difficulties in dispensing the contents. Provided is a refillable container for storing and dispensing wiping substrates. A refill cartridge containing wiping substrates having a peelable seal disposed on a first surface and a second surface for forming a seal with the container lid is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Inventors: Maggie VanderHeiden Berger, Kevin Christopher Possell, Jason Robert Boon, Matthew Chace Carpenter, Mark Joseph Guarraia, Daniel Patrick Smith
  • Patent number: 9027173
    Abstract: A toilet training device includes an odor remediation system for absorbing or masking odors that may be created during toilet training. The odor remediation system may include a modular odor remediating insert that may be releasably positioned within a recess that is provided within the toilet training device. The odor remediating insert may include an odor absorbing substance such as sodium bicarbonate, an odor masking substance such as a fragrance or a combination of an odor absorbing substance and an odor masking substance. The toilet training device also includes a system for dispensing wipes that may utilize a recess that is defined in a side wall of the main body portion of the toilet training device. A wipes cartridge is designed so that it can be used to conveniently dispense wipes regardless of whether it is separated from the toilet training device or mounted within the recess of the toilet training device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Munchkin, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven B. Dunn, Keith G. Ciampa, Mark A. Hatherill, Mark G. Tebbe, Huisok Pyon
  • Publication number: 20150114868
    Abstract: A container for wipes, and a cap for the container, having a pop-up style dispensing means positioned beneath a reclosable lid. The container may be as upright cylindrical container for perforated wipes or a rigid tub for interfolded wipes. The dispensing means comprises flexible, rubber-like material having at least one opening through which wipes are removed from the container when the lid is open, and a hard plastic backing member underneath a portion of the rubber-like material adjacent the opening through which wipes are removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventor: Sharmin MEHDIZADEH
  • Publication number: 20150114867
    Abstract: A container for wipes, and a cap for the container, having a pop-up style dispensing means positioned beneath a reclosable lid. The container may be as upright cylindrical container for perforated wipes or a rigid tub for interfolded wipes. The dispensing means comprises a raised member made of flexible, rubber-like material, having at least one opening through which wipes are removed when the lid is open. When the lid is closed it compresses the raised member. When the lid is released from its closed position the raised member pushes the lid open. The dispensing means may have a hard plastic backing member underneath a portion of the rubber-like material adjacent the opening through which wipes are removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventor: Sharmin MEHDIZADEH
  • Publication number: 20150113749
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a flexible container for non-intertwined wet wipes is provided, which has a substantially rectangular shape comprised by a top face (5), a bottom face (5a) and side faces (6), which short ends (2) are sealed between them; the container has a dispensing opening (11) which is formed by detaching a detaching area (4) which is delimited by a perforation (3), and a flexible seal arranged for tightly sealing the container once it has been opened. The dispensing opening (11) is formed by a slot starting at a point located at the top face of the flexible container and projected towards one of the side faces thereof, defining a top portion (7) and a bottom portion (8) of the dispensing opening (11), through which the finger may be introduced so as to pull outside the wet wipe located at the top part of the stack, without dragging the next wipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Juan Miguel Martini-Merlo, Lucia del Carmen Sanchez-Fernandez, Carlos Canales-Espinosa De Los Monteros
  • Publication number: 20150101954
    Abstract: A wipe container and dispenser in which tray for receiving the wipes can be removably attached expeditiously to a decorative cover. The tray snaps into the decorative cover from the bottom. A coupling member provides releasable snap fit coupling between the tray and the cover. The cover can have a molded design such as an animal shape or sports related shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventor: Kristen PIERSON JONES
  • Patent number: 8997990
    Abstract: A package including a container and a plurality of premoistened cleaning wipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jonathan David Gummow, Mark William Baize, Brian Joseph Roselle
  • Patent number: 8991646
    Abstract: A product dispenser including a housing for housing dispensable products in a product reservoir defined by the housing and a cover member defining a dispensing opening through which the products are dispensed. The cover member includes a lid member and a support member and the lid member is openable relative to the support member about a hinge. The cover member is removably mountable to the housing by at least one engagement member of the support member engaging at least one complementary engagement member of the housing. A strength of connection of the hinge to the support member and a strength of connection of at least one engagement member of the support member for removably mounting the support member to the housing is such that when the lid member is opened to a stop position and further opening force is applied to the lid member, at least one engagement member dismounts between the housing and the support member before the force gets so great as to break the hinge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventor: Russell G. Wieser