US 12,690,726 B2Granted

Dispenser

AssigneeEssity Hygiene and Health Aktiebolag

InventorsBjörn Larsson, Per Moller, David Sahlin, Lars Thorén

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Abstract

A dispenser for dispensing at least one perforated web from a storage of web material, the dispenser including: a housing arranged to hold a storage of perforated web material, wherein a web path extends along a feeding direction in an interior of the housing from a storage position to a dispensing opening of the dispenser, and a separation arrangement being arranged along said web path, for separating the at least one perforated web along the perforations thereof, said separation arrangement including a first unit and a second unit, the second unit being arranged downstream said first unit, as seen in the feeding direction of the web path. The first unit is arranged to provide a tensioning force on said web, and the second unit being arranged to stretch the web material along the length of the web and along the width of the web.

Claims26

Dependent claims

A dispenser for dispensing at least one web material, said web material comprising perforation lines dividing said web material into individual products, from a storage of the web material, the dispenser comprising:

a housing arranged to hold the storage of said web material, wherein a web path extends along a feeding direction in an interior of the housing from a storage position to a dispensing opening of the dispenser, and
a separation arrangement being arranged along said web path, for separating said at least one web material along said perforation lines,
said separation arrangement comprising a first unit and a second unit, said second unit being arranged downstream said first unit, as seen in the feeding direction of said web path,
wherein
said first unit is arranged to provide a tensioning force on said web material, said tensioning force being at least 2 N/m, and
said second unit being arranged to stretch said web material along a length of said web material and along a width of said web material such that the web material is separated along perforation lines at the second unit.

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Facts

Application: 17/337,917Filed 3 Jun 2021 · continuation
Priority: 28 Apr 2014
Published: US 2021/0321832 A121 Oct 2021
Granted: 28 Jul 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

A47K 10/34
Dispensers for paper towels or toilet paper: dispensing from a web, e.g. with mechanical dispensing means
A47K 2010/3233
Dispensers for paper towels or toilet paper: details of the housing, e.g. hinges, connection to the wall
A47K 10/421
Dispensing from a store of single sheets, e.g. stacked: dispensing from the top of the dispenser
A47K
Sanitary equipment

Family

Application15/307,313Parent of this division · filed 28 Apr 2014
PCT/SE2014/050518Parent of this division · filed 28 Apr 2014
Application16/946,041Parent of this continuation · filed 3 Jun 2020
US 2021/0321832 A1Pre-grant publication · published 21 Oct 2021
US 11,206,956 B2Parent of this continuation
Application16/946,041Parent of this division
US 2017/0042392 A1Published application
US 2020/0323398 A1Published application
US 12,690,726 B2This patent

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