Bend to open flat poly-pack tissue cassette for use in over-shell dispensers
AssigneeGeorgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP
InventorsDonald C. McCarthy, William G. Burr, Jared S. Felix
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Abstract
A tissue dispensing system with a rigid overshell having 5 sides and an opened bottom with a tissue withdrawal opening in the top is adapted to receive a bend-to-open pack containing a clip of tissue sheets enwrapped in a capaciously sized overwrap having a medial line of weakness formed therein and situated to allow withdrawal of tissue through the tissue withdrawal opening after the line of weakness is ruptured and the tissue pack is placed in the overshell.
Claims24
A package comprising:
- a plurality of boutique sized capacious loose fitting, bend-to-open flat low density polymeric sheet tissue cassettes, each tissue cassette comprising a clip of tissue having a heat sealed polymeric film overwrap thereabout with a transversely extending medial line of perforations forming a line of weakness in said polymeric overwrap;
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- a rigid re-usable generally cubic over-shell having at least four upwardly extending side walls defining an interior cavity having a height of at least about 4.5 inches, and lateral dimensions of about 4.25 inches, said interior cavity being capped by a horizontally extending upper wall having a dispensing opening formed therein;
- each said low density polymeric sheet tissue cassette having an interior span length of at least about 9.5 inches, and an interior span width of at least about 6.0 inches;
- each said tissue in said clip being prefolded along its length into a configuration chosen from C-shaped (C-fold) or interfolded configuration having a length of about 7 to 9.5 inches;
- a width of about 3.5 to 5.75 inches, and comprising from about 50 to 150 2-ply sheets having a basis weight of from at least about 15 lbs/3000 sq. ft. ream.
A bend to open polymeric sheet tissue cassette, having a transversely extending medial line of perforations forming a line of weakness;
- said bend to open poly-pack tissue cassette encompassing a prefolded clip of tissue sheets, wherein said poly-pack sheet tissue cassette has an interior span width of at least about 5.75 inches and comprises about 75 to 125 sheets of tissue having at least 2 plies having a width of no more than about 5.15 inches and a basis weight of from about 14 lbs/3000 sq. ft. ream up to about 25 lbs/3000 sq. ft. ream, said bend to open polymeric sheet tissue cassette having a transversely extending medial line of weakness formed thereacross capable of forming an opening having a width of at least about 5 inches, such that upon bending the line of weakness is placed in tension.
A tissue dispensing system comprising a rigid re-usable generally cubic over-shell having at least four upwardly extending side walls defining an interior cavity, said interior cavity being capped by a horizontally extending upper wall having a dispensing opening formed therein;
- and having disposed therewithin a bend to open poly pack sheet tissue cassette with a transversely extending medial line of perforations forming a line weakness;
- said bend to open poly-pack sheet tissue cassette encompassing a prefolded clip of tissue sheets, wherein each said low density polymeric sheet tissue cassette has a transversely extending medial line of weakness formed thereacross capable of forming an opening upon bending as the line of weakness is placed in tension.
A bend to open polymeric sheet tissue cassette, having a transversely extending medial line of perforations forming a line of weakness;
- said bend to open poly-pack tissue cassette encompassing a prefolded clip of tissue sheets, wherein said poly-pack sheet tissue cassette has an interior span width of at least about 5.75 inches and comprises about 75 to 125 sheets of tissue having at least 2 plies having a width of no more than about 5.15 inches and a basis weight of from about 13 lbs/3000 sq. ft. ream up to about 30 lbs/3000 sq. ft ream, said bend to open polymeric sheet tissue cassette having a transversely extending medial line of weakness formed thereacross capable of forming an opening having a width of at least about 5 inches, such that upon bending the line of weakness is placed in tension.
A bend to open polymeric sheet tissue cassette, having a transversely extending medial line of perforations forming a line of weakness;
- said bend to open poly-pack tissue cassette encompassing a prefolded clip of about 75 to 125 tissue sheets of tissue having a basis weight of from about 13 lbs/3000 sq. ft. ream up to about 40 lbs/3000 sq. ft. ream, and a caliper of between about 30 to 130 mils per 8 sheets, wherein the transverse perimeter of said clip is between about 0.77 and 0.92 of the interior transverse perimeter of said poly-pack and said bend to open polymeric sheet tissue cassette has a transversely extending medial line of weakness formed thereacross capable of forming an opening having a length of at least about the sum of the width and height of said tissue clip, such that upon bending, the line of weakness is placed in tension.
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