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US 4,101,053 AGranted
Disposable product applicator and dispensing package therefor
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorJohn George Mast, Jr.
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AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorJohn George Mast, Jr.
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A hand-held, generally T-shaped disposable product applicator and a dispensing package therefor. The applicator comprises a resilient applicator pad portion and an upstanding finger grip portion. The applicator pad portion is normally substantially planar with a top surface and a bottom product applying surface coated or impregnated with the product to be dispensed. The upstanding finger grip portion is normally substantially planar with its sides providing finger grip surfaces. The finger grip portion is substantially normal to and extends transversely across the top surface of the applicator pad portion, bisecting the applicator pad portion into two substantially equal flaps. The applicator pad portion is foldable along its juncture with the finger grip portion with its bottom product applying surface folded upon itself. The finger grip portion is of such thickness that when the applicator pad portion is in its folded condition each half of the applicator pad portion top surface is substantially coplanar with the adjacent finger grip portion side. The dispensing package is adapted to receive a stack of applicators each with its applicator pad portion in folded condition. The package has a dispensing opening through which the handle portion of the end-most applicator of the stack is exposed for removal. Structure is provided within the package to advance the stack of applicators as each applicator is removed therefrom. Upon removal from the package, the resilient applicator pad portion of each applicator will spring to its normal substantially planar product applying condition.
In combination a plurality of hand-held, T-shaped disposable product applicators and a dispensing package therefor, each of said applicators comprising an applicator pad portion and an upstanding finger grip portion, said pad portion being normally substantially planar with a top surface and a bottom product-applying surface, said upstanding finger grip portion being normally substantially planar with opposite sides providing finger grip surfaces, said finger grip portion being normally substantially perpendicular to and extending transversely across said top surface of said pad portion bisecting said pad portion into two substantially equal parts, each said pad portion being folded along its juncture with said finger grip portion with said bottom product applying surface folded upon itself, said finger grip portion being of a thickness substantially twice the thickness of said pad portion whereby said finger grip portion and said folded pad portion are substantially coplanar and of substantially the same thickness, said folded applicators being arranged in a stack located in said package, said package having a dispensing opening through which the endmost applicator of said stack may be removed from said package sequentially, means within said package to advance said stack toward said opening and to maintain said pad portion of each applicator of said stack folded, said pad portion of each of said applicators being fabricated of a material of such nature that said pad portion will spring to said normal substantially planar configuration upon removal of said applicator from said package.
A hand-held, T-shaped disposable product applicator comprising a resilient structure having an applicator pad portion and an upstanding finger grip portion, said pad portion being normally substantially planar with a top surface and a bottom product-applying surface, said upstanding finger grip portion being normally substantially planar with opposite sides providing finger grip surfaces, said finger grip portion being substantially normal to and extending transversely across said top surface of said pad portion bisecting said pad portion into two substantially equal parts, said pad portion being foldable along its juncture with said finger grip portion with said bottom product applying surface folded upon itself, said finger grip portion being of a thickness substantially twice the thickness of said pad portion whereby when said applicator pad portion is folded, said finger grip portion and said folded pad portion are substantially coplanar and of substantially the same thickness and releasable means to maintain said pad portion folded.
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