US 5,341,992 AGranted

Container

AssigneeThe Beautiful Bouquet Company Limited

InventorDerek A. Bishopp

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Abstract

The present invention provides a storage container containing one or more packets of toilet paper. The container is adapted to have at least part of a wall thereof removed to permit access to the contents of the container for removal thereof from the container and is provided with a device located on or adjacent an outer face of the container wall for preferentially releasing a scent or other volatile material externally of the container into the environment of the container and substantially not into the interior of the container. Preferably, the volatile material releasing device is adapted to be actuated to release the material prior to removal of the container wall to permit access to the contents of the container. The invention also provides a disc or the like carrying the volatile material enclosed thereon by a removable cover foil.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A flexible walled storage and transport container for a material, which container is adapted to have at least part of a wall thereof removed prior to use of the material so as to permit access to the material within the container for removal of the material from the container, characterised in that:

a. the material within the container is toilet paper;
b. the container is provided with a volatile material releasing means having no mechanical moving parts and adapted to release a volatile material externally of the container into the environment of the container;
c. said releasing means is located on an outer wall of the container whereby it is adapted to release the volatile material substantially only externally of the container and substantially not into an interior of the container;
d. the volatile material releasing means is adapted to be actuated prior to removal of the container wall to gain access to the contents within the container;
and
e. the volatile material releasing means is further characterized in that it comprises:
(i) a generally planar vapour impermeable first layer to which a fluid consisting essentially of a liquid volatile material has been applied to a selected area of one face thereof;
and
(ii) a vapour impermeable second layer applied directly and without an intermediate layer over at least the said selected area of the first layer and removably secured to said first layer around at least the periphery thereof so as to form with the first layer a vapour impermeable enclosure for the fluid volatile material, whereby release of the volatile material from the first layer can be achieved by removing part or all of the said second layer to expose the area of the first layer carrying the fluid volatile material directly to the environment of the article so as to allow volatilization of the volatile material.

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Facts

Application: 07/922,359Filed 29 Jul 1992 · continuation in part
Priority: GB 8824799.422 Oct 1988
Granted: 30 Aug 1994
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

A47K 10/38
Dispensing from a web, e.g. with mechanical dispensing means: the web being rolled-up
A47K 10/421
Dispensing from a store of single sheets, e.g. stacked: dispensing from the top of the dispenser
A61L 9/04
Using gaseous or vaporous substances, e.g. ozone: using substances evaporated in the air without heating
A61L 9/12
Using substances evaporated in the air without heating: apparatus, e.g. holders, therefor

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Serial678,964Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 22 Apr 1991
US 4,889,815 ARelated patent
US 5,341,992 AThis patent

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