Wet Wipe Refill Container Indicator
AssigneeKimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
InventorTerri Lynn Meisel
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a wet wipe refill container and a wet wipes dispensing system. Users frequently refill empty wet wipe dispensers with wet wipes removed from a wet wipe refill container. The user can have difficulty estimating the correct number of wipes to remove from the wet wipe refill container when filling the wet wipe dispenser to maintain dispensing functionality. The wet wipe refill container includes an indicator to assist users in determining the recommended refill thickness of wet wipes to place into the empty wet wipes dispenser.
Claims20
A refill container having a height dimension, the container comprising:
- a bottom wall;
- at least one side wall contiguous with the bottom wall and extending in the height dimension upward from the bottom wall;
- an exterior surface;
- an interior surface;
- an access opening;
- a plurality of articles stacked in the height dimension;
- and
- a graduated scale disposed on the side wall, the graduated scale comprising a first graduation, wherein the first graduation is spaced a recommended refill thickness from the bottom wall in the height dimension.
A refill container having a height dimension, the container comprising:
- a bottom wall;
- a first side wall and a second side wall contiguous with the bottom wall and extending in the height dimension;
- an exterior surface;
- an interior surface;
- an access opening;
- a plurality of articles stacked in the height dimension;
- a first graduated scale disposed on one of the first and the second side walls, the first graduated scale comprising a first graduation, wherein the first graduation is spaced a first recommended refill thickness upward from the bottom wall in the height dimension;
- and
- a second graduated scale disposed on one of the first and the second side walls, the second graduated scale comprising a first graduation, wherein the first graduation is spaced a second recommended refill thickness upward from the bottom wall in the height dimension.
A wipes dispensing system comprising:
- a first refillable wipe dispenser adapted to house a stack of wipes having at most a first recommended refill thickness;
- a second refillable wipe dispenser adapted to house a stack of wipes having at most a second recommended refill thickness wherein the first recommended refill thickness is different than the second recommended refill thickness;
- a refill container having a height dimension, the container comprising:
- a bottom wall;
- a first side wall and a second side wall contiguous with the bottom wall, the first side wall and the second side wall having a width dimension perpendicular to the height dimension;
- an access opening;
- a plurality of articles stacked in the height dimension;
- a first graduated scale disposed on one of the first and the second side walls, the first graduated scale comprising a first graduation, wherein the first graduation is spaced the first recommended refill thickness upward from the bottom wall in the height dimension;
- a second graduated scale disposed on one of the first and the second side walls, the second graduated scale comprising a first graduation, wherein the first graduation is spaced the second recommended refill thickness from the bottom wall in the height dimension.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.