Abstract: A dispensing nozzle comprising a plate overlying a bore defined through a countertop for the passage of bags therethrough from a subjacent storage position. The plate defines an elongate zig-zag slot for the restrictive movement of bags therethrough upon a manual pulling of a leading bag. Each manually pulled leading bag is automatically severed from a following bag secured thereto along a line of severance by slot-developed resistance. Introduction of the forwardmost bag of a bag package is facilitated by an enlarged opening laterally of one side of the slot and communicated with the slot through a relatively narrower neck portion. The nozzle may include a tubular sleeve receivable in the countertop bore, with the plate secured to or integrally formed with the sleeve across one end thereof.

Abstract: Paper handkerchiefs pack having a stack of folded handkerchiefs 3 enclosed on all sides by a foil envelope 2. The handkerchiefs 3 have a fold which has an edge 6 at the outside of the folded handkerchief that lies free with the two edges 7, 8 extending from it, one of these edges 7 running in the middle of the longitudinal extent of the surface of the handkerchief from one longitudinal edge thereof to the other longitudinal edge thereof and the other of these edges running along a longitudinal edge of the folded handkerchief. To form a dispenser opening, a line of weakness 4 is provided which extends over the middle of the broad upper surface 5 of the foil envelope.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a seal for dispensing wet wipes from a container comprising a tube of generally tapered form having a relatively wide mouth for receiving wipes and a relatively narrow orifice for dispensing them, the tube being divided circumferentially into relatively rigid and relatively flexible axially extending zones, so that when a wet wipe is dispensed the orifice is capable of expansion.The seal according to the invention provides good dispensing action and prevents to a significant extent evaporation of the impregnated liquid.

Abstract: A sheet material dispensing package which includes a U-folded bundle of sheets of material and a carton wherein the carton includes integral elements for substantially obviating rotational shifting of the bundle during shipping and handling. In a preferred embodiment, lower distal corner portions of the more interior closure flaps of the carton are configured to extend sufficiently into the carton to engage side portions of the bundle to effectively key the bundle to the carton and thereby substantially preclude rotational shifting of the bundle inside the carton.

Abstract: A dispenser providing access to a plurality of pre-moistened towelettes and having dual orifices covered by a self sealing lid. A larger recessed orifice in the top side of the container accommodates a smaller opening and both openings are covered by a lid attached to a ledge surrounding the larger recessed orifice perimeter. The lid has approximately the same planar dimensions as the combination planar dimensions of the recess and ledge and is held in a closed position by press fitting under an outer border curbing the perimeter of the outermost edge of the ledge. A removable back panel is provided for ease of refilling prepackaged towelettes in the dispenser, and a second back attachment means is provided for attaching or mounting the dispenser to a flat surface.

Abstract: For sequentially dispensing individual closed loops of a narrow, easily tied, flexible material, such as dental floss, a chain having such closed loops as respective links thereof is made up by pressing a loop length of the flexible material into substantially rectilinear formation, loosely forming a knot in an end thereof, inserting a loop end of another so-pressed loop length into the loosely formed knot of the first loop length, tightening the knot to provide a slip-free-until-pulled-to-separate-loops joinder between the thus formed loop links and repeating this with additional loop lengths at either or both ends of the first-joined loop length until a chain of desired length is formed. Individual loop links are dispensed by grasping a terminal loop link of the chain and pulling it free of the chain while holding the knot that embraces the unknotted end of the next loop link of the chain.

Abstract: A device for warming and illuminating pre-packaged, pre-wetted disposable towels is provided. The unit also secures a plastic canister of disposable towels so that the towels may be dispensed with one hand. A cup sized to enclose the canister in an upper sector has a supporting dish, upon the upper surface of which is provided a series of lips to engage various diameter plastic canisters containing the towels. The dish has a recessed bowl at its center in which one or more small incandescent light bulbs are mounted to warm the fluid pool within the canister and to provide illumination through a translucent window portion of the cup. The top of the dispenser is capped to retain the container from above, while the dish is spring mounted within the cup to assure a snug vertical fit of the container within the cup. A dispenser opening is provided in the cap of the unit, through which the towels from the container are pulled out.

Abstract: A cup dispensing system employs a housing having a pair of walls with relatively rigid inwardly inclined portions for supporting a stack of cups and enabling individual dispensing of cups.

Abstract: A device for preventing napkins from bunching at the dispensing opening in a napkin dispenser. A pair of pressure relief rods are provided along the upper and lower portions of the dispenser face plate to relieve pressure between the face plate and the center portion of the napkin stack. Accordingly, the friction between each napkin is substantially reduced, thereby permitting individual napkins to be withdrawn from the dispenser without displacing napkins remaining in the stack.

Abstract: A dispenser for solvent wetted towelettes in the form of a continuous band that is perforated at intervals along its length to define separate towelettes. The dispenser comprises a container 12, a first closure member 16 having a skirt 22 that is received in an annular groove 24 in the container 12, and a lid 20 that screw engages the container 12. When the lid 20 is screwed on to the container 12 a first set of sealing formations 22 to 26 between the first closure member and the container and a second set of sealing formations 28 to 31 between the lid and first closure member are urged into sealing engagement. A further set of sealing formations 32, 34 adjacent a dispensing opening 18 are also urged into engagement. The dispenser has good sealing properties and is therefore suitable for use with volatile solvents such as acetone. Novel dispensing formations are also disclosed.

Abstract: An automatic dispenser for pre-cut Z-folded web materials wherein the dispenser comprises a holder or support having an orifice through which the web materials are pulled. The orifice has outwardly rounded edges so that the web can be pulled with unequal pulling forces and from different directions. In some embodiments the orifice is provided with an obturator having two opening elements that are elastically coupled to one another. The obturator has round edges through which the web passes wherein one of the edges can be separated from the other.

Abstract: A dispenser for storing and sequentially dispensing flexible synthetic resin disposable lids or other similar flexible, generally flat articles has an elongated, upright container with an abutment shelf extending partially across its lower end. A dispensing aperture coplanar with the shelf is disposed between the latter and a front wall of the container. The weight of the stacked lids automatically forces the exposed portion of the flexible, lowermost lid through the dispensing aperture toward a hand engageable position. As the lowermost lid is pulled through the opening, a front wall portion of the container engages the next adjacent lid to retain the same within the container. In preferred forms, an inclined lip segment extends downwardly from the abutment shelf below the aperture to limit the flexure of the lids as the latter are singularly dispensed in response to user demand.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improved apparatus for sequentially dispensing individual, liquid-impregnated sheets along a dispensing direction from an interfolded array of the sheets while presenting a next available sheet from the array in a graspable position. The apparatus includes a container for holding the array of sheets and includes a distinctive guiding mechanism. The guiding mechanism is located on the container and extends substantially linearly along a direction transverse to the dispensing direction. It contacts a major surface of an overlapped portion between a preceding sheet and a successive sheet, and directs the sheets along a curvilinear path, which curves in a direction substantially perpendicular to the sheet surface. This configuration induces a separation between the individual sheets and presents a portion of the successive sheet in a graspable position outside of the container.

Abstract: A dual dispensing mode carton for, for example, a stack of interfolded sheets of facial tissue. The carton has a dispensing opening which is configured and disposed to enable substantially droop-free pop-up dispensing of one sheet at a time with improved sheet to sheet stand-up height uniformity as successive sheets are withdrawn from the carton; and group mode dispensing of a plurality of sheets simultaneously without having to disassociate them from each other. A dispensing package is also provided which comprises such a dispensing carton having a stack of interfolded sheets disposed therein.

Abstract: A package of imbricated bags is provided that is adapted for dispensing and opening such bags one at a time. The package includes a chain of adhesively imbricated bags in overlying sequence, each bag being adhesively but releasably attached to adjacent bags and having an open mouth end directed toward the leading end of the chain, and a container for the chain having an elongate, constricted opening through which the leading end of the chain is directed. The length of the opening is less than the bag chain width by a selected extent sufficient to cause the mouth of each bag to open in response to transverse constriction as the chain is advanced through the opening, provided that the width of the opening is sufficiently narrow so as to resistively confront the lower edge of the mouth of a bag being pulled through the opening. A method for making the bag package is also provided.

Abstract: A method for minimizing twist in large plastic bags to be center-dispensed from a wound coreless roll of sequentially attached plastic bags. The roll is flattened or collapsed and folded at least once into a U, C, S, M, W, or accordion shape. The method is particularly effective for minimizing twisting of center-dispensed bags when the bags are at least as long as the inner core circumference. The method is also useful for imparting selected dimensions to the horseshoe folded roll that enable the roll to be inserted into a dispensing carton having dimensions preferred by users of the bags, such as cartons having square ends.

Abstract: Circular sections of coffee filter papers are interconnected along a portion of their sides, the paper being perforated along the lines where adjacent sections meet. The sections are pressed into the shape of cups alternately concave upward and downward and stacked inside one another by folding along the perforated line, the stack of coffee filter cups being placed in a dispensing box having a top opening.

Abstract: A paper strip dispenser unit is disposed below a food slice receiving surface of food slicing machine. The dispenser is in the form of an elongate container having an upturned open side of which the stack of paper is fanned out to enable individual strips of paper to be withdrawn over the surface to receive sliced food.

Abstract: A convenient dispensing package for a stack of adhesive-coated notepaper comprises a box for containing a stack of sheets with one end of the box formed with two flaps cut along parallel coincident edges and along a common third edge to define two mating indulated edges defining the dispensing opening.

Abstract: A retainer and dispenser for paper-like containers or cups in which french fried potatoes or the like are served in a fast-food type of establishment. The retainer and dispenser comprises a housing adapted to be supported in substantially vertical orientation. The housing has an opening at the upper portion thereof through which the paper-like cups are loaded into the housing, as the cups are inverted and in a nested stack. The housing has an opening at the lower portion thereof. Adjacent the opening at the lower portion of the housing is an abutment member or members which are engaged by the lowermost cup in the stack thereof. The abutment member establishes the lowermost position of the lowermost cup in the stack thereof. The portion of the cup which engages the abutment member is readily bent or deflected for removal of the lowermost cup from the stack of cups and from the housing.

Abstract: In a box containing facial tissues, a tape is attached to the under surface of an oval portion surrounded by a perforated line. In the alternative, thick strings are attached along and inwardly of the longitudinal edges of the oval portion. The tape or thick strings serve as backings and facilitate tearing the top sheet along the perforated line. The uppermost one of the facial tissues is attached to the under surface of the oval portion. In the alternative, the oval portion is formed with a hole through which an adhesive tape is pushed to adhere to the uppermost tissue.

Abstract: This invention relates to a container for a stack of folded, preferably treated, towels, comprising a flexible, water-impermeable envelope having in the interior space thereof a movable apertured stiffening plate.

Abstract: A dispenser for sheet material affords the clamping action against the sheet partially dispensed from the container to maintain it in a position where it can be grasped and dispensed. The dispenser comprises a cartridge for a stack of sheet material which stack is formed by releasably adhering successive sheets adjacent opposite edges to permit the dispensing of one sheet and the grasping of the next adjacent sheet at the opening to dispose an edge of such sheet to permit the subsequent dispensing of the next sheet. The exit opening enlarges under the dispensing force applied to each successive sheet but removal of the force allows the side walls of the cartridge to return from a pivoted position to the original position, closing the opening and grasping the sheet therebetween. The cartridge is disposed within a housing which contains the cartridge during the movement of the upper or top wall while the sheets are being dispensed.

Abstract: This invention relates to compact, easily transportable, moist tissue or towelette dispensers which are so designed that they maintain the tissues contained within the dispenser in moist condition for exceptionally long periods of time, thus providing long shelf life for merchants, who stock the dispensers, as well as a long life span of the dispensers for the consumer.

Abstract: A compact dispensing device, especially useful in conjunction with disposable face masks, is provided which serves to store such masks and to serially dispense the masks in response to user demand. The dispenser preferably includes an elongated container in which the masks are stored and an apertured retainer secured across one end of the container. The retainer preferably presents a depending, inwardly converging sidewall around the aperture and the masks are interfitted such that the strap of the mask adjacent the retainer is positioned through the retainer aperture. The retainer aperture presents the same irregular cross-sectional configuration as the mask cross-section, with the masks being serially dispensed by simply pulling on the strap of the mask presented through the retainer aperture. In preferred forms, the depending sidewall has an inwardly-extending lip with the wall and lip cooperating to allow the masks to be singularly dispensed while retaining the remaining masks within the container.

Abstract: A package of folded paper handkerchiefs comprises a foil enveloping the stack of handkerchiefs. The enveloping foil has adjoining end segments extending from the two opposite wide sides to one of the two elongate narrow sides of the foil. The end segments overlap on the one elongate narrow side to form a flap and they are connected to each other along the short end edges of this narrow side. The flap has a convex rim centrally between the connections at the end segments whereby the flap may be lifted off the other end segment to form a dispensing opening for withdrawal of the handkerchiefs from the package between the connections.

Abstract: Towelette dispenser and vapor impervious pouch containing a roll or web of absorbent material, such as non-woven fibrous towelettes per-moistened with a chemical-containing aqueous or other fluid solution. The pouch is sealed before use to prevent the loss of moisture from the pre-moistened towelette roll and is opened at the point of, and at the time of, first use. A double lid is adapted to provide moisture seal between usages of the pre-moistened towelette, while reducing dehydration of the opened towelette pouch within the dispenser. Feed slit adaptations in the lid provide for selective tearability of individual towelette portions from the roll. The dispenser is adapted to provide a low center of gravity, and the base of the dispenser can cooperatingly engage a wall-type holder. The towelette roll contains a leader adapted for ease of feeding through the feed slot upon first use.

Abstract: A dispensing port in a wall of a container 10 for dispensing perforated sheets. The dispensing port comprises three slots 62 generally extending radially from a central opening 61 of the dispensing port to form three flexible, triangular flaps 56, the apex 58 of each flap 56 being rounded. The flaps 56 apply tension to a leading sheet being pulled through the slots 62 to cause the leading sheet to be separated from the next sheet at the perforations while leaving a tip 75 of the next sheet projecting through the dispensing port.

Abstract: A flexible bag is adapted to contain articles to be dispensed, and the bag has a closed first end and open second end. A collar is fixed to the open second end of the bag. A top has therein a dispensing opening and a slit connected with the dispensing opening. The top is selectively movable between a first position fitted to the collar and a second position removed from the collar. A lid is selectively movable between a first position covering at least a portion of the top and a second position removed from the top. The lid includes a first portion adapted to cover the dispensing opening when the lid is in the first position thereof and a second portion adapted to cover the slit when the lid is in the first position thereof.

Abstract: A package includes two or more individual cup dispensing units, each unit comprising a carton holding a stack of nested tapered cups. Each carton of a dispensing unit is of paperboard having a generally circular opening in a top wall through which the tapered cups protrude, and which opening is surrounded by a series of short radial knife cuts defining a series of yieldable tabs on the wall which permit the topmost protruding cup to be pulled through the opening, but which function to restrain the cups immediately below. The bottom wall of the carton is formed with a generally circular opening, either fully cut-out or defined by a series of radial cuts, which permits the protruding tapered cups of a similar, adjacent carton to extend through the bottom opening into the carton to form a compact, multiple dispensing unit package which is shrink wrapped for shipping and display.

Abstract: Small bags, such as sandwich bags and food storage bags, are folded in thirds along parallel fold lines and individually inserted into a box-like dispenser. A rupturable line extends along a top and adjacent side edge of the dispenser which, when ruptured, provides an opening in the dispenser at the corner of the top and adjacent side edge to facilitate removal of the folded bags.

Abstract: A bag dispensing package includes a stack of flat bags and a surrounding flexible receptacle, conveniently in the form of a plastic bag. Each flat bag within the receptacle includes a pair of opposed walls, one of the walls having a manually graspable flap on an outwardly facing surface and the other wall including an extension that extends outwardly from the remainder of the bag. The flexible receptacle includes an access opening arranged to communicate with the manually graspable flap of the uppermost bag of the stack while the remainder of the receptacle retains the extension of the outermost bag within the receptacle. The access opening is normally closed, being defined by a pattern of perforations so that when it is desired to utilize the bags, the opening is formed by tearing the receptacle along the pattern of perforations. The uppermost bag is then removed by grasping the manually graspable flap and pulling the bag outwardly of the receptacle.

Abstract: A shipping package for dispensing industrial size meltblown microfiber wipers therefrom. The wipers are folded in alternating opposite directions and joined to the next wiper by a plurality of perforated teeth forming a substantially continuous web of separable wipers. Two such webs are interfolded in a particular manner, i.e., a first web superposed over a second web but having the second web lagging the first web by at least one and one-half segments of a folded wiper. The package includes dispensing port for initiating breakage of the perforation teeth joining a lead wiper to a trailing wiper as a lead wiper is being dispensed. Also the dispensing port includes structure for opposing adherence of microfibers from wiper segments of one web to microfibers from wiper segments of the other web as the lead wiper is being dispensed from the carton and is being removed from the interfolded web.

Abstract: A retainer and dispenser for paper-like containers or cups in which french fried potatoes or the like are served in a fast-food type of establishment. The retainer and dispenser comprises a housing adapted to be supported in substantially vertical orientation. The housing has an opening at the upper portion thereof through which the paper-like cups are loaded into the housing, as the cups are inverted and in a nested stack. The housing has an opening at the lower portion thereof. Adjacent the opening at the lower portion of the housing is an abutment member or members which are engaged by the lowermost cup in the stack thereof. The abutment member establishes the lowermost position of the lowermost cup in the stack thereof. The portion of the cup which engages the abutment member is readily bent or deflected for removal of the lowermost cup from the stack of cups and from the housing.

Abstract: Methods and systems for dispensing a plurality of serially connected separable wipers stacked in a carton is disclosed. Wiper folding techniques and carton dispensing port designs are employed to effect detaching a leading wiper from a trailing wiper in a manner enabling the trailing separable wiper to protrude through the port in a "pop-out" fashion, poised in a state of readiness as the next wiper to be dispensed.

Abstract: A dispensing closure for closing an end of a canister containing dispensable articles includes a top adapted to fit over an open end of a canister. The top has depending therefrom an integral peripheral axial flange. The top has therein a dispensing opening and a slit connected with the dispensing opening. The closure may be originally provided with the dispensing opening, or alternatively the closure may be originally provided with a tear-out member which is removed by the consumer to form the dispensing opening. The dispensing opening and slit may be formed directly in the top, or alternatively the top may have a recess defined by a bottom wall and a side wall, with the dispensing opening and slit being formed in the bottom wall of the recess. A lid is selectively movable between a first position covering the top or fitted within the recess and a second position removed from the top or recess.

Abstract: Scent impregnated tissues are provided in a substantially airtight container having a resealable lid. The tissues have disposed between selected ones thereof individual scent-carrying layers carrying a scent-producing material therewith. The arranged scent-carrying layers uniformly impregnate the absorbent disposable tissues with the scent thereof, and the container and lid insure that the tissues and layers remain in a virtually hermetically sealed environment.

Abstract: A combined bag and wrapping sheet unit provides both an arrangement and method for dispensing items that are to be wrapped and then inserted into a bag. The bag of the unit is flat and collapsed and has two broad panels attached to one another along at least a portion of their side edges, a closed bottom end and an open top end. A saddle section is provided which is a planar extension of one of said board panels and further a weakened zone between the saddle section and the panel of which it is an extension is provided. The wrapping sheet is flexible and is a planar extension of the saddle section. A weakened zone is provided between the wrapping sheet and the saddle section. Both the wrapping sheet and the bag are readily detachable from opposite sides of the saddle section. A number of registered, identically oriented bag and wrapping sheet units are attached to each other so as to form a single assembly block.

Abstract: A package and dispensing device for a continuous roll of pre-moistened towelettes which has an outer container that holds therein the roll of pre-moistened towelettes, the roll being surrounded by a bag which prevents the roll from drying out. The towelettes are pulled away from the roll through a hole in a sealing and dispensing plate and are pulled out of the top of the container.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for singulating seedlings in which bundled seedlings are contained within a hopper and are intermittently tumbled. Seedlings are singulated by being engaged with a vacuum nozzle, separated from a bundle of seedlings, gripped, and extracted from the hopper.

Abstract: Tissue dispensing system for dispensing a stack of interleaved facial tissues from a wall mounted type dispensing cabinet employs a plastic overwrap package of facial tissues having a perforated opening which automatically adheres a front face of the package to a slot in the cabinet to provide inproved tissue dispensing. As each tissue is dispensed, tensile forces are applied to the front face of the package along defined lines by the edges of the tissue passing past the corners of the opening in the package causing the front face of the package to bend into a truncated, hip-roof shaped structure having the truncated end depending from the slot in the cabinet.

Abstract: A package for dispensing and separating single sheets from a continuous web of pre-moistened sheets which are joined at perforations includes a continuous web of premoistened sheets, and a bag which may but need not be found within a container, surrounding the web. The bag is open at a top end portion thereof, and an end sheet of the web extends through the open top end portion. A flexible tie device is positioned to surround the end sheet of the web and the top end portion of the bag and gathers and substantially seals the bag around the end sheet of the web. The flexible tie device causes sufficient friction between the top end portion of the bag and the end sheet to enable the end sheet to tear from the next sheet of the web at the perforations therebetween when the end sheet is withdrawn. The flexible tie device is adjustable to enable selective alteration to adjustment of the size of the opening through the opened top end portion of the bag and the end sheet.

Abstract: A closure for a dispenser-container for moist tissues or the like which minimizes evaporation of the tissue stored in a continuous length in the container. The closure comprises two superimposed diaphragms each having an opening therein completely out of register with the other, at least one of the openings being resiliently sealed by the other diaphragm. The tissue is drawn from the container through the two openings.

Abstract: A dispenser from which may be pulled individual, moist, non-woven fabric wipes, comprising: a container body; a linked succession of the moist, non-woven fabric wipes located generally within the container body; a container lid removably attached over an open upper end of the body; a wall surrounding a central portion of the lid which the central portion includes an orifice to receive the end wipe in the succession of wipes; the orifice having both a fixed length and a fixed breadth and approaching at its edges the surrounding wall; and temporary closure and sealing members locatable at an upper edge of the surrounding wall to close the orifice between dispensations.

Abstract: An aperture in a wall of a dispenser for dispensing tearable, web-like material, is provided. The aperture has the form of a slot, the active edges of which converge toward at least one end of the slot. Material drawn from said dispenser through the aperture and pulled toward the end is wedged tight between the converging slot edges and can be torn off.

Abstract: A storage container and dispenser for cup-shaped filters for coffeemakers and the like utilizing a container with a pivotally attached cover and a basket within the container mounted on resilient blocks on the bottom of the container and having compression bars operable on opposite sides of the stack of filters to distort the shape of the stack of filters and facilitate removal of the innermost filter, the basket having posts which engage the cover as the cover is closed to depress the basket in the container against the resilient blocks.

Abstract: A package and dispensing device for a continuous roll of premoistened towelettes includes an outer container that holds therein the roll of premoistened towelettes, the roll being surrounded by a bag which prevents the roll from drying out. The towelettes are pulled away from the roll through a hole in a sealing and dispensing plate and are pulled out of the top of the container. The plate may be planar or conical.

Abstract: A package and dispensing device for a continuous roll of pre-moistened towelettes which has an outer container that holds therein the roll of pre-moistened towelettes, the roll being surrounded by a bag which prevents the roll from drying out. The top of the bag is gathered together and held in a substantially sealed condition by a sealing and dispensing plate with a slit and hole therein, and the towelettes are pulled away from the roll and out of the top of the bag through the hole in the sealing and dispensing plate surrounding the bag.

Abstract: A dispenser assembly for disposable plastic bowls is disclosed which includes a rectangular housing, open at the top, and a housing cover disposed thereover and defining a circular opening in the top. A slotted, flat, rectangular article supporting plate rides along raised, elongated and vertically extending rails formed on opposite inside walls of the housing which project into the slots. A coiled spring disposed in the housing supports the plate and extends around a raised circular wall formed on the bottom of the plate. A series of three elongated elements or nibs project downwardly from a ceiling of the housing cover around the circular opening and project inwardly of the opening a slight distance sufficient to interfere with and catch against the rolled rims of bowls stacked on the plate and projecting upward through the opening in the housing cover. A companion lid dispenser can be incorporated into the housing for convenience and efficient utilization of space.

Abstract: A compact dispensing package for sheet-like products having an improved stack support member with outwardly projecting protuberences. The stack support member is formed from a cardboard blank having essentially the same unfolded length as the sheet-like product contained in the dispensing package, but having a folded length greater than the sheet-like product. The increased length provides better stability for the bundle of sheet-like product during shipping and storage of the compact dispensing package.