With Casing Or Support Patents (Class 221/45)
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Publication number: 20130075416Abstract: A toilet paper styled wet wipe dispenser promotes sanitary cleanliness in private and public restrooms while providing a new packaging format to the industry concept. The wet and dry toilet paper wipe offers the consumer the cleaning agent of the wet wipe, while also supplying the consumer with the comforting feeling of a dry wipe consumers have grown accustomed to, all within a single product. The wet wipe dispenser preferably fits on a standard toilet paper roll hanger. A cover on the wet wipe dispenser preferably seals the compartment containing the wet wipes to prevent the wet wipes from drying out. A toilet paper styled wet wipe dispenser, a dispenser with dual openings for a wet wipe and a dry toilet paper product and a wet and dry wipe, utilizing a single opening, are all disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2012Publication date: March 28, 2013Inventor: Cynthia Marie Boyce
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Publication number: 20130075417Abstract: This machine includes a flap and a cover having a plurality of opposite-facing pairs of matching shapes comprising grooves and ribs capable of interlocking with each other after the cover has been closed. A strip of material is unwound between the flap and the internal wall of the cover without lateral deformation and projects from the matching shapes. The shapes are directly designed or have an additional element for reducing the space between certain portions of ribs and grooves in order to allow and encourage the separation of a piece of strip of material when it is pulled by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2011Publication date: March 28, 2013Inventor: Maurice Granger
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Publication number: 20130068781Abstract: An upright, tubular floor stand wipes dispenser is disclosed having a body portion containing an upper compartment from which the wipes are dispensed through an orifice and a lower compartment housing a container such as a waste basket for used wipes. A cover plate conforming to the body portion and having an opening through which used wipes are deposited into the waste basket hangs from an upper edge of the body portion by clips arranged along the top edge of the plate. The stand is readily serviceable from the front and does not have to be moved when removing the used wipes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Inventor: Robert L. Giammanco
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Patent number: 8397945Abstract: A container adapted for dispensing a product is provided. The container includes an outer casing body for receiving a dispensing tray. The dispensing tray has an internal storage compartment for storage of a plurality of units of a product to be dispensed, and includes a cover portion defining at least one dispensing aperture through which a stored unit of product is accessible when the outer casing body is in a dispensing position. A sealing member is engaged with one of the outer casing body and the dispensing tray, and is configured to interact with the other of the outer casing body and the dispensing tray to form a seal about an outer peripheral portion of the dispensing tray when the outer casing body is in a closed and locked position. The container includes a locking mechanism that releasably locks the outer casing body in the closed and locked position.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2010Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanyInventors: John A. Gelardi, Ryan A. Bailey
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Publication number: 20130062362Abstract: The present application provides a dispensing carton for a number of sheet products therein. The dispensing carton may include a first wall, a dispensing aperture positioned in the first wall, a perpendicular second wall, and one or more support tabs positioned in the perpendicular second wall. The support tabs may be folded within the perpendicular second wall to support the number of sheet products therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2012Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: GEORGIA-PACIFIC CONSUMER PRODUCTS LPInventors: Kip K. Decker, Abby Case, Walter O. Wruck
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Patent number: 8393496Abstract: A representative stack of sheets including sheet bodies each of which is formed by folding a sheet and has a plurality of pieces between both ends of the sheet body. The sheet bodies are stacked one on another in such a manner that one of the plurality of pieces of each of the sheet bodies on one side in a stacking direction and another piece on the other side are inserted between pieces of an adjacent sheet body on one side in the stacking direction with respect to the sheet body and between pieces of an adjacent sheet body on the other side in the stacking direction, respectively, wherein an auxiliary piece is formed by folding an end of the piece of the sheet body.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2009Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Takeshi Bandoh, Koji Sangawa
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Patent number: 8393509Abstract: An adapter for a support enclosure bin for a roll of thermoplastic bags is described. The bin has a half round cylindrical wall, first and second vertical side walls attached to a supporting rim. The rim has spaced apertures for mounting the bin to a surface that has an opening that permits passage of outer surfaces of the walls but not the rim. The side walls have integral channels that provide support for a rod for a wide roll of bags. The adapter includes first and second bag dispensers for vertically folded coreless roll mounted bags. Each of the dispensers has first and second side panels that are attached together with a connecting link that aligns the front edges and bottom edges of the dispensers. First and second axles are mounted adjacent the outer side panels of the dispensers with positioning wheels that engage the integral channels of the bin.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2010Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Inventor: Tan Greg
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Publication number: 20130043267Abstract: An apparatus for dispensing wipes and hygiene products with a rectangular container having a bottom, a top, and upstanding sides defining an enclosed space with one open side, and hanging disposed at the top or the sides of the dispenser and adapted for suspending the dispenser from an existing bathroom tissue holder's spindle roll or holder's bar used for mounting a conventional bathroom tissue roll, three hook like arms at the top end, a nipple on the outside of both side walls, a lip at the bottom of the front open side, openings on both side walls for to secure lugs, and detachable square side containers having lugs and an attached lid.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2011Publication date: February 21, 2013Inventor: Steven Lim
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Publication number: 20130032608Abstract: A dispenser (1) for a pack of wet wipes, has a stiff plastics material body (2) with a peripheral mounting flange (3) for attachment to a sidewall of a pack of wipes. A tear-open closure (4) is integrally formed with the body (2). A portion of a periphery of the closure (4) is tearable away from the body (2) to leave the closure (4) attached to the body (2) by a hinge (5). The closure (4) is mounted at an opening in the body (2) across which is stretched a silicone membrane having a circular dispensing opening through which wipes are dispensed from a flow-wrap plastics pack of wipes on which the dispenser (1) is mounted.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2012Publication date: February 7, 2013Applicant: Edmak LimitedInventors: Edward McCloskey, Elizabeth Jones
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Publication number: 20130020346Abstract: An apparatus for storing, heating, and dispensing cleansing tissue. An enclosed housing includes a bottom floor provided with upwardly extending peripheral walls having inner sidewalls and upper edges. The housing includes a top cover having a closed position in sealing relation with the peripheral walls and an open position providing selective access to the enclosed volume of said housing. A heating plate, adapted to move freely upwardly and downwardly within the enclosed volume of the housing is also provided. The heating plate includes at least one heating element, and has an aperture passing therethrough from an upper side to a lower side. An electrical power source is provided, having an output interconnected to the heating element. A stack of cleansing tissue is provided in the housing, located between the lower side of the heating plate and the bottom floor. Individual tissues are removable through the aperture in the heating plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2012Publication date: January 24, 2013Inventor: SUNG HAE LEE
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Patent number: 8348878Abstract: A dispensing device deposits cream onto a strip of gauze by housing a roll of gauze that is unrolled and pulled through a user-fillable reservoir of cream. The amount of cream deposited on the gauze is regulated by applying pressure to various parts of the device. Cream laden gauze is then used in the conventional manner.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: AB Holdings, LLCInventors: Eric L Black, David S Asbery
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Publication number: 20120305587Abstract: Optional mount wet wipe dispenser is designed for convenient location and convenient use of wet wipes. The front housing, back housing, and flip lid are made of metal which can also be made of plastic, fiber glass, carbon fiber or wood.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2011Publication date: December 6, 2012Inventor: Marcus E. Williford
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Patent number: 8322568Abstract: A sheet product dispenser includes a housing comprising a dispenser opening for dispensing sheet product, and a water resistance means attached to a periphery of the dispenser opening, the water resistance means includes a means for housing the sheet product, a repositionable chute door movable between an open and a closed position, a chute seal between the housing means and the dispenser opening, and at least a door seal between the housing means and the chute door.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2008Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Georgia-Pacific FranceInventors: Gilles Cattacin, Nicolas Pommier, Brian K. Linstedt, Sally A. Stark, Timothy C. Rothwell, Luke C. Stonis
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Publication number: 20120298686Abstract: The present invention provides a tissue dispenser having a cylindrical main body with an outer wall and a top, a lower cylindrical portion having a diameter smaller than a diameter of the main body, a compartment bounded by the outer wall for holding tissues, an opening on the top for accessing the tissues, and a waste receptacle on a bottom of the tissue dispenser and having access thereto from a side chute, wherein the lower cylindrical portion is dimensioned and configured to fit within a vehicle cup-holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2011Publication date: November 29, 2012Inventor: Hussain Y.A.M. Mothaffar
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Patent number: 8317061Abstract: A device includes a housing (100) in which is placed a bag (400) containing wipes, and having an extraction opening for the wipes. The housing (100) includes a front cover (102) mounted on a rear wall (101), and the front cover (102) has a wipe outlet opening (20) and bears a lid (3) covering the wipe outlet opening (20) in the closed position. The bag (400) is carried by a coupling plate (4) placed inside the housing (100) under the wipe outlet opening (20) of the front cover (102).Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2009Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Laboratories Prodene-KlintInventor: Eric Vignot
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Publication number: 20120273514Abstract: A dispenser for sanitary tissue products is provided. The dispenser comprises a housing defining a cavity configured to receive sanitary tissue products therein and an opening defined in the housing. The sanitary tissue products within the cavity are configured to be dispensed through the opening. The opening is defined by a first portion having a first width, a second portion having a second width, and a third portion having a third width. The third portion extends between the first portion and the second portion. The first width and the second width are both larger than the third width.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Inventors: Emma Lynn Sartini, Kyoko Mignot, Michael Sean Farrell, Nicholas August Vitucci
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Publication number: 20120273515Abstract: A dispenser for sanitary tissue products comprises a base and a lid comprising an arcuate portion. An aperture is defined in the arcuate portion. The lid or the base is movable relative to the other between an open position and a closed position and the lid and the base define a receiving cavity when the lid and the base are in the closed position. The lid or the base comprises a first side wall and a second side wall. When the lid and the base are in the closed position, a first edge of the arcuate portion is positioned adjacent to the first side wall, a second edge of the arcuate portion is positioned adjacent to the second side wall, and the arcuate portion extends intermediate the first side wall and the second side wall in a direction generally perpendicular to a plane of the first side wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Inventors: Phillip Lacoi Hutchison, James Roy Denbow
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Publication number: 20120273513Abstract: A dispenser for sanitary tissue products is provided. The dispenser comprises a cavity defined therein. The cavity is configured to receive one or more sanitary tissue products. The dispenser comprises a portion defining an opening therein and an arm extending from the dispenser. The one or more sanitary tissue products are configured to be dispensed through the opening. The arm comprises a first portion extending from a first portion of the dispenser and a second portion configured to removably attach to a second portion of the dispenser.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Inventors: Jerry Ray Stephens, Emma Lynn Sartini, Nicholas August Vitucci, Kyoko Mignot
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Publication number: 20120259455Abstract: A hand protection barrier dispenser for dispensing disposable sanitary barriers for temporarily covering the hand and providing complete hand protection is disclosed which dispenses the hand protection barriers in a manner so that they may easily be donned by a user thereof. The hand protection barrier operates to open each of the hand protection barriers into a position to be readily donned and dispensed. The hand protection barrier dispenser dispenses only a single hand protection barrier at a time.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Inventors: Kenneth R. Balkin, Catherine C. Tollefson, Judith L. Balkin
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Publication number: 20120255966Abstract: A coffee filter dispenser is provided for distributing individual coffee filters. The coffee filter dispenser includes a container and a stack of interleaved coffee filters. The container has two sets of opposing walls, a bottom wall, and a top wall with an opening for dispensing coffee filters. Each coffee filter in the stack is folded to form a folded edge, a top section and a bottom section. The coffee filters are interleaved to form a stack in the container so that the top section of a first filter is positioned in the container opening, and top and bottom sections of opposing filters overlap so that removal of the first filter from the container causes the top section of a second filter to be positioned in the container opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2011Publication date: October 11, 2012Inventor: Gene P. Percudani
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Publication number: 20120234251Abstract: A receptacle for receiving containers of feces, for transport therein to a secondary receptacle such as a trash container, is provided. The receptacle includes a spring loaded opening, such that the opening may be held open without intervention of a person, and closed after receipt of a feces container therein. The opening may be opened under the influence of energy stored in the coil spring, such that the container(s) of feces therein may fall therefrom under the influence of gravity into the secondary receptacle. A pouch, formed on the exterior of the receptacle, may be configured to carry one or more containers for retrieval of feces thereinto.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2012Publication date: September 20, 2012Inventor: LESLEY J. HARLAN
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Publication number: 20120228323Abstract: A sheet storage box has a sheet-removing opening effectively forming the portion to remove the sheet easily from the opening and a portion to easily catch the sheet wherein, the shape of the rims of the opening of the sheet storage box designed to remove the sheet is formed in such a way that the movement of the sheet is reduced by adequately reducing the spatial area of the opening and the rims of the opening are converted to convex shape smooth curves to smoothly slide the sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2010Publication date: September 13, 2012Inventor: Hiromichi Fujimoto
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Patent number: 8261938Abstract: A finger covering system includes a finger cover dispensing device and a plurality of first and second finger covers. The finger cover dispensing device includes a dispenser body having a face and at least first and second openings disposed in the face, with the first and second openings each being sized to receive at least one finger inserted therethrough, and first and second cavities disposed in the dispenser body extending inward from the first and second openings. The plurality of first and second finger covers are disposed in the first and second cavities, with each of the plurality of first finger covers having an open first end facing the first opening of the dispenser body and a closed second end, and each of the plurality of second finger covers having an open first end facing the second opening of the dispenser body and a closed second end. The plurality of first and second finger covers are disposed in a stacked relationship within the corresponding first and second cavities.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2009Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Inventor: Michael E. Oradini, Sr.
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Patent number: 8261937Abstract: A dispenser includes an upper member having a slot and a lower member attached to the upper member thereby forming a housing, the lower member having an outer surface; a stack of sheets assembled in a fan-fold configuration disposed in the housing; and a polymeric holding film having a first surface attached to the outer surface of the lower member. The holding film having a flexural modulus less than about 50 MPa, as measured according to ASTMD790 standard, and a roughness parameter, Ra of less than about 1 micrometer, as calculated according to ASME B46.1 standard.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2007Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Douglas P. Bodziak, James E. Nash, Peter Newbould, Timothy J. O'Leary, David C. Windorski
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Publication number: 20120223092Abstract: Generally, the present disclosure relates to a carton for dispensing compressed tissue sheets comprising a carton having an oversized carton opening and a compressed stack of tissues, such as facial tissues. The compressed carton can significantly reduce costs associated with shipping such low density products. The oversized carton opening permits the compressed stack of tissues to expand, releasing the compression of the tissue stack and allowing the tissues to be dispensed normally.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2011Publication date: September 6, 2012Inventors: James Alexander Hallam, Dennis Edward Fryer, Martin Christopher Bunce, Peter Booth, James Mallion
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Patent number: 8256644Abstract: The invention relates to a dispenser for hygiene products, which dispenser comprises a rear section (2, 22, 32), two side sections (3, 4; 23, 24;33, 34), a front section (5, 25, 35), an upper section (6, 26, 36) and a lower section (7, 27, 37) having means for dispensing hygiene products. At least the rear section (2, 22, 32) and the two side sections (3, 4; 23, 24;33, 34) comprise substantially flat components made from a plastic material, and that the front section (5, 25, 35) and the upper section (6, 26, 36) form a single sheet metal component having at least one cylindrical single-curvature bend.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2005Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products ABInventor: Peter Orgna
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Publication number: 20120217259Abstract: A dispenser (1) for dispensing tissue paper from a volume defined within a dispenser housing (10), the dispenser housing being made from a flat material, preferably a cardboard material, the dispenser having at least one handling section (30, 32, 34) which can be folded out from a wall (16, 20, 22) of the dispenser housing, the dispenser housing having at least two layers of the flat material at the location where the at least one handling section is situated, wherein the at least one handling section is present in the outer layers of the flat material only such that at least the innermost layer of the flat material remains intact and seals off the volume defined by the dispenser housing at the location where the at least one handling section is present such that the dispenser can be used as a fully operational dispenser when the at least one handling section is folded out.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2009Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: SCA Hygiene Products ABInventors: Anne D'Hiet, Joris Scheppers, Mylène Pierquet, Marion Liotard, Gert De Smedt
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Publication number: 20120199602Abstract: Gloves and dispensers for gloves are generally discussed herein with particular discussions extended to disposable gloves packaged in a disposable dispenser configured to engage with a holder. Aspects of the glove assemblies provided herein include a tray responsive to the number of gloves in the dispenser, movable in a vertical direction within the disposable dispenser towards the dispenser opening with its movement facilitated by a telescoping piston or other biasing members, such as a conical spring. The dispenser may be removed from the holder and a new dispenser engaged to the holder. Aspects of the present disclosure also include a disposable dispenser having a biasing member urging a tray in a vertical direction in response to the number of gloves in the dispenser.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2010Publication date: August 9, 2012Inventors: Earl Jordan, Paul R. Persiani
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Publication number: 20120187140Abstract: A tissue dispensing device for use with a standard tissue carton is formed as a helical coil spring that is highly stretchy and has a top coil that is fastened around a dispenser aperture in a top surface of the tissue carton with the remainder of the helical coil spring inserted into a space between the top surface of the tissue carton and top of the stack of tissues within the carton with a bottom coil thereof resting on top of the stack of tissues. The helical coil spring forms an open circular space within its coils under gravity that provides a vertically-extending support structure for supporting a tissue next to be dispensed from the tissue stack in a vertical standing position with a leading part thereof extending through a membrane opening of the dispenser aperture of the tissue carton to enable a user to grasp the leading part to withdraw the next tissue to be dispensed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2011Publication date: July 26, 2012Inventor: Jeffrey NASRALLAH
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Patent number: 8224480Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing a portion of sheet product stored in a dispenser, in which a dispensed sheet portion is to be removed by tearing the sheet portion from the remaining product supply. The dispenser includes a system which detects the presence of sheet product in a region of a dispensing outlet. Upon detection of a potential user, the sensing system causes dispensing of paper, on the condition that the sheet portion is regarded as having been torn off. The system includes elements for detecting a discontinuity in the sheet product.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2005Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products ABInventors: Kin Lun Mok, King Lun Mok, Hong Ng
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Publication number: 20120173017Abstract: A hand protection barrier dispenser for dispensing disposable sanitary barriers for temporarily covering the hand and providing complete hand protection is disclosed which dispenses the hand protection barriers in a manner so that they may easily be donned by a user thereof. The hand protection barrier operates to open each of the hand protection barriers into a position to be readily donned and dispensed. The hand protection barrier dispenser dispenses only a single hand protection barrier at a time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2012Publication date: July 5, 2012Inventors: Kenneth R. Balkin, Catherine C. Tollefson, Judith L. Balkin
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Publication number: 20120160865Abstract: A glove dispensing assembly includes a stack of interfolded gloves. In particular, the gloves are folded in an S-like arrangement including a first fold and a second fold. The finger portion of a leading glove is folded in between a cuff portion and an intermediate portion of a subsequent glove. The manner in which the gloves are folded allows for the gloves to be dispensed in a perpendicular direction or a lateral direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2010Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventor: Khoa T. Lien
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Publication number: 20120160864Abstract: A container for storing personal care articles comprising a lid structure attached to the container is disclosed. The lid structure has a top lid portion connected to a base lid portion. The base lid portion includes a rigid port surrounding a unitary dispensing partition extending in an x and z direction to the rigid port, the unitary dispensing partition having a dispensing slit formed therethrough. The unitary dispensing partition forms an arc extending a first depth into the interior of the container in a z-direction. The depth of the dispensing partition allows for the personal care article to be stored in a pop-up dispensing position with a larger portion of the personal care article extending from the dispensing slit. This allows for easier retrieval of the product by a consumer and less dispensing failures.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2010Publication date: June 28, 2012Inventors: Timothy Walter Shoaf, Andrew Dale Brinkdopke, Robert Samuel Schlaupitz
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Patent number: 8205769Abstract: A container for storing and dispensing consumable products. Modular construction is utilized wherein there is one base container and at least one subcontainer mounted above the base container. The base container has a floor, a peripheral wall, and a cover panel. Each subcontainer has a peripheral wall and a cover panel, and is coupled to a container below, such as the base container or another subcontainer, in stacked fashion. The cover panel of that container immediately below forms the floor of the container above, thereby obviating the necessity of forming a floor in each container. Each container may have a closure to enable contents to be withdrawn therefrom. The various containers are coupled together to form a stack by a removable band. When contents of the uppermost container are depleted, the empty container is removed from the stack to reveal the next container.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2011Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Inventors: Seda Gaspari, Mike H. Ananighian
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Publication number: 20120152974Abstract: The invention relates to a soft pack dispensing container for wipes featuring an aperture built into the lid of the rigid flip top. A soft pack dispensing container for wipes (1) is sealed at two ends 2A, 2B, has a rigid flip top assembly which has an openable, integral lid (5) which can be closed over the mouth (6) of the soft pack dispensing container (1). An aperture (8) built into the lid (5) of the soft pack dispensing container (1) is such that it does not allow the user to access and grip the first wipe with the fingers alone.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Inventor: Michael John Gordon
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Publication number: 20120145738Abstract: The invention relates to a dispensing container for wipes comprising: A dispensing container (1) featuring a dispensing aperture (2) to dispense wipes (3) and at least one variable width means (11a, 11b) built into the dispensing container (1) to enable the user to secure the dispensing container (1) to a surface on which it is standing with the user's knees engaging the variable width means (11a, 11b).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2010Publication date: June 14, 2012Inventor: Michael John Gordon
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Publication number: 20120145737Abstract: Wipe dispensers are provided wherein particular wipe-gripping and wipe-ripping structures are provided to overcome problems encountered with the prior art. Particularly, gripping and ripping structures are provided to prevent the removal of more than one wipe at a time from a dispenser and to prevent a following wipe from falling back into the interior of a container when separated from a lead wipe being removed from the container. In particular embodiments, structures are provided to avoid pinching an individual's finger when feeding a wipe up through the gripping and ripping structures. In yet other particular embodiments, a boss is provided to prevent wipes from bunching up during the dispensing thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2010Publication date: June 14, 2012Inventors: Eugene W. Ray, Michael J. Gmerek, III
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Patent number: 8186541Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing interfolded disposable sheets is disclosed. The dispenser includes a removable panel that is attached to the first sheet in the stack contained in the container. When the removable panel is pulled off the container, the first sheet in the stack is partially or completely withdrawn from the container. The removable panel may be adhered to the first sheet using an adhesive material. The adhesive material may be contained in a recess formed in the removable panel. The recess is designed to protect the adhesive material during manufacture of the product and/or to prevent the adhesive material to adhering to other portions of the product. In one embodiment, after the stack of sheets are loaded into the dispenser, the recess is inverted forming a protrusion that contacts the first sheet in the stack and forms a bond between the removable panel and the first sheet.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Krzysztof Andrzej Szymonski, Daphne Lynn VanBuren, Sara Marie Etheridge
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Publication number: 20120118909Abstract: A moist towelette dispenser device adapted for use in combination with a toilet paper holder assembly having an elongated cylindrical spindle with two ends engageable which mount on a conventional toilet paper fixture to support a roll of toilet paper. The device provides for concurrent dispensing of toilet paper and moist towelettes and an air freshener. A housing provides a dispensing site for the towelettes and is engageable to the room mount by two elongated members. The toilet paper is operatively mounted on the spindle engaged between the members.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2012Publication date: May 17, 2012Inventor: Andrew Yaros
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Patent number: 8152021Abstract: A paper towel cabinet includes an enclosure and an opening that includes first edge a second edge. The cabinet further includes a dispenser module configured to be housed in the enclosure. The dispenser module includes a pair of generally parallel side walls defining a channel having a dispensing end, and a bar extending between the side walls proximate to the dispensing end. When the dispenser module is disposed in the enclosure with the dispensing end disposed at the opening, the bar extends along the opening between the first edge and the second edge of the opening. When a stack of paper towels is placed in the channel, the bar is disposed between a stack of paper towels and the opening. The paper towel cabinet may also include a bar extending along the opening between the first edge and the second edge without having a dispenser module. The bar may be formed at any one of the first edge or second edge of the opening by an inwardly curved surface formed by any one of the first edge and the second edge.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2005Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Bobrick Washroom Equipment, Inc.Inventor: Dikran Babikian
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Patent number: 8152022Abstract: A packaging for a stack of articles of absorbing materials such as cotton wool tampons or similar hygiene articles, and where the packaging protects the mentioned articles against soiling and spray from above, as well as the sides, and also preventing contamination from below. The packaging can stand steady on the supporting surface and a the same time easily permit the articles withdrawal, one by one, from the packaging. The packaging is constructed with supporting devices so that the withdrawal aperture faces downwards and is elevated above the supporting surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2007Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Eazy-Pac Danmark A/SInventor: Anne-Mette Juhl Nygaard-Petersen
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Publication number: 20120080443Abstract: A package for dispensing products. The package has a substantially rectangular-shaped bottom panel joined to four side walls, each of which meet adjacent side walls to form an open, four-sided enclosure. A first side of each side wall defines an interior sidewall portion and a second side of each side wall defines an exterior sidewall portion. The interior sidewall portions are substantially at a right angle to the bottom panel. The exterior sidewall portions of a first pair of opposing sidewalls are substantially at a right angle to the bottom panel. The exterior sidewall portions of a second pair of opposing sidewalls are substantially at an angle less than a right angle with respect to the bottom panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2010Publication date: April 5, 2012Inventors: Jerry Ray Stephens, Phillip Lacoi Hutchison
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Patent number: 8132692Abstract: A method of interfolding gloves including superposing finger portion of second glove adjacent finger portion of first glove, with second glove finger portion being disposed parallel and in a direction opposite the first glove finger portion, in a superjacent opposing relationship. First glove hand and cuff are lapped over second glove finger to create lapped, superjacent opposing fold. By repeatedly lapping previous glove hand over subsequent glove fingers, a glove bundle is formed. Folding can be longitudinal before lapped, superjacent opposing folding. Gloves are disposed in portable dispenser with lapped, superjacent folding and dispensing opening cooperating to dispense one glove, cuff first.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2006Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Oneglove, LLCInventor: Earl Jordan
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Publication number: 20120032565Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing tissue paper. The dispenser includes a housing defining a volume for receiving both a center-feed tissue paper roll and a tissue paper stack, a first dispensing opening situated in the housing for dispensing tissue paper from a center-feed tissue paper roll, and a second dispensing opening situated in the housing for dispensing tissue paper sheets from a tissue paper stack.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2009Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS ABInventors: Cecilia Stööp, Björn Larsson
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Publication number: 20120024884Abstract: A dispenser for bags is disclosed. The dispenser is capable of storing a roll of bags and dispensing individual bags therefrom. In addition, a dispensing system for use in dispensing individual bags from a wound roll of continuously and detachably connected bags is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2010Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: Hilex Poly Co. LLCInventor: Harry B. Wilfong
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Publication number: 20120018445Abstract: A portable, large capacity, canister for containing and dispensing anti-microbial towelettes to a large number of individuals at a social gathering, such as a sporting event or a picnic. The large capacity canister allows for the ready dispensing of anti-microbial towelettes to a large number of people quickly and conveniently. The canister container includes a large capacity bucket or pail with a semi-permanently attachable lid having a centrally positioned lid neck with a cap. A large quantity roll of towelettes containing a liquid anti-microbial compound is positioned within the container and a sequence of towelettes from the towelette roll is fed through a toothed collar in the container lid beneath the centrally positioned cap. In this manner, a large gathering of individuals such as a sports team, or a group of individuals at a picnic, may commonly utilize the dispensing canister in association with disposal containers positioned nearby.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2011Publication date: January 26, 2012Inventors: Randall P. Mendoza, Lance A. Fitzsimon
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Patent number: 8100292Abstract: A vending machine includes a plurality of column walls that collectively define an associated plurality of stack areas for storing product containers. The column wall includes various, vertically spaced and fore-to-aft extending stiffeners embossed into the column wall. The integral stiffeners eliminate the need for any additional discrete stiffener parts and fasteners. In addition, the integral stiffeners advantageously permit thinner material to be employed in forming the column walls, thereby improving the entire manufacturing process. Preferably, one of the stiffeners constitutes a decoupling member which isolates a bottom portion of the column wall from a top portion and substantially prevents bow forces from transferring into a dispensing region of the column wall. Furthermore, each of the column walls is integrally formed with an alignment member or louver structure in the form of a guide element or flange which provides for proper product positioning through a vending area.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2003Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Crane Merchandising Systems, Inc.Inventors: Paul Hayward Kelly, Edmund Scott Richardson, Terring M. Ware
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Patent number: 8092885Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to adhesive strips for reversibly resealing open bags, such as food bags. More particularly, the preferred strips comprise a decorative motif and/or a textured surface, which may be provided in a dispenser.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2009Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Inventor: Anita Tabib
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Publication number: 20110297692Abstract: A device for dispensing a sheet from a stack of sheets is disclosed. The device includes a holder for receiving a refill container including the stack of sheets. The holder includes a holder base wall and opposed holder side walls extending up from the holder base wall. The refill container includes a container base wall and opposed first and second container side walls extending up from the container base wall. A first flap extends inward from an end of the first container side wall, and a second flap extends inward from an end of the second container side wall. The first flap and the second flap are dimensioned to define a longitudinal dispensing slot of the container. At least one of the first flap and the second flap of the container can flex upward when a sheet is dispensed from the device. In one form, the sheets comprise a thin sponge material.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2010Publication date: December 8, 2011Inventors: Simon M. Conway, Michael M. Sawalski, Benjamin J. Paprocki, Scott Padiak
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Publication number: 20110297693Abstract: A novel sheet material dispenser package includes a first sidewall, a second sidewall, a collapsible top wall, a collapsible bottom wall, a first hinge feature, and a second hinge feature. A first side region of the first sidewall is coupled to a first region of the second sidewall via the first hinge feature and a second side region of the first sidewall is coupled to a second side region of the second sidewall via the second hinge feature. The top wall includes a first region coupled to the first sidewall and a second region coupled to the second sidewall. The bottom wall includes a first region coupled to the first sidewall and a second region coupled to the second sidewall. In a particular embodiment, the sheet material dispenser is a collapsible tissue dispenser adapted to sit in a cup holder when in a non-collapsed state and in a pocket when in a collapsed state.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2011Publication date: December 8, 2011Inventor: Craig L. Crabill