Bulk package for substantially wet sheets and dispensing device therefor
AssigneeScott Paper Company
InventorRichard T. Ross
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Abstract
Dispensing devices employed in a bulk package of substantially wet sheets include a substantially flat section having an opening through which successive sheets are adapted to be individually dispensed. The opening includes curved surfaces which are substantially free of sharp angles and bends to provide spaced lobes. Hingedly connected flexible flaps are normally disposed within the spaced lobes in substantially the same plane as the flat section, and the flaps have substantially curved outer margins which are closely positioned to curved surfaces providing the lobes to form restricting channels into which successive sheets are directed during sheet dispensing. Bulk packages including the above-described dispensing device also form a part of this invention.
Claims13
A dispensing device employed in a bulk package of substantially wet sheets which are successively and temporarily interconnected for permitting individual pop-up dispensing of the wet sheets, said dispensing device including:
- A. a substantially flat section having an opening therethrough which is adapted to communicate with the sheets, and through which successive sheets are adapted to be individually dispensed, said opening including curved surfaces which are substantially free of sharp angles and bends providing spaced lobes;
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- B. hingedly connected flexible flaps normally disposed within said lobes in substantially the same plane as the flat section, said flaps having substantially curved outer margins which are substantially free of sharp angles and bends, the outer margins of said flaps being closely positioned to curved surfaces providing the lobes to form restricting channel means into which successive sheets are directed during sheet dispensing, successive sheets encountering frictional resistance by surfaces of restricting channel means during dispensing of immediately preceding sheets to separate a successive sheet from its immediately preceding sheet after said immediately preceding sheet has been withdrawn from the package with a portion of the successive sheet extending through the opening to
A bulk package for individually dispensing substantially wet sheets from a stack of such sheets, said package comprising:
- A. a stack of wet sheets;
- B. means for temporarily interconnecting successive sheets within said stack to produce a sheet-to-sheet force resisting separation of successive sheets and to permit partial removal of successive sheets outwardly from the package upon withdrawal of each preceding sheet;
- C. a container receiving the stack of wet sheets;
- D. a dispensing device including a substantially flat section having an opening therethrough which is in overlying relationship with flat surfaces of the sheets in the stack;
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- E. a cover member for overlying the opening to provide a seal;
- the improvement of
- 1. said opening including curved surfaces which are substantially free of sharp angles and bends providing spaced lobes;
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- 2. hingedly connected flexible flaps normally disposed within said lobes in substantially the same plane as the flat section of the dispensing device, said flaps having substantially curved outer margins which are substantially free of sharp angles and bends, the outer margins of said flaps being closely positioned to curved surfaces providing the lobes to form restricting channel means into which successive sheets of said stack are directed during sheet dispensing, successive sheets encountering frictional resistance by surfaces of restricting channel means for separating from its immediately preceding sheet with a portion of the next succeeding sheet extending outwardly of the opening for subsequent manual
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