Cassette and apparatus for packing disposable objects into an elongated tube of flexible material
AssigneeInternational Refills Company Limited
InventorMichel Morand
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Abstract
A cassette for dispensing bags from an elongated tubing comprising an annular receptacle accommodating a length of tubing in an accumulated condition. An annular opening at an upper end of the annular receptacle is for dispensing the tubing. The annular receptacle defines a central opening through which a knotted end of the tubing passes to form a bag supported by the annular receptacle with disposable objects passing through the circular central opening to be received in the bag, and a clearance only at a bottom of the central opening.
Claims18
A method for disposing of objects in a pail of a waste disposal system having a film-dispensing cassette, the film-dispensing cassette including an annular receptacle defining a central opening, the annular receptacle including a volume receiving an elongated tube of flexible material radially outward of the central opening, the method comprising:
- orienting the annular receptacle so as to have a bottom of the annular receptacle facing a cassette holder located in an upper portion of the pail;
- seating a portion of the annular receptacle of the film-dispensing cassette in the cassette holder against an interfering member of the cassette holder having an oblique cassette-orienting wall supporting the annular receptacle, with part of the elongated tube of flexible material passing through the central opening of the annular receptacle and extending into an enclosure of the pail;
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- disposing waste into the elongated tube of flexible material that extends into the enclosure of the pail through the central opening of the annular receptacle.
A method for installing a film-dispensing cassette in a pail of a waste disposal system, the film-dispensing cassette including an annular receptacle defining a central opening, the annular receptacle including a volume receiving an elongated tube of flexible material radially outward of the central opening, the method comprising:
- withdrawing a length of the elongated tube of flexible material from the volume of the annular receptacle, the length of the elongated tube of flexible material including a free end of the elongated tube of flexible material;
- passing the free end through the central opening of the annular receptacle;
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- seating the annular receptacle against an interfering member of a cassette holder in an upper portion of the pail, the interfering member having an oblique cassette-orienting wall supporting the annular receptacle and engaging an edge of the annular receptacle, the edge delimiting a lower surface of the annular receptacle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.