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US 5,346,064 AGranted
Center-pull roll product dispenser package
AssigneeJames River Paper Company, Inc.
InventorJack A. Rizzuto
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Abstract
A dispenser package includes a container having an interior and a dispensing aperture communicating with the interior. A coreless, center-pull roll product is positioned in the interior, the roll product having a central opening and a lead end connected to the innermost convolution. The dispenser package also includes a dispenser nozzle which is maintained in the roll product central opening until dispensing is desired.
Claims8
A dispenser package comprising, in combination:
- a container including a plurality of interconnected walls defining an interior, at least one of said walls defining a dispensing aperture communicating with said interior;
- a coreless, center-pull roll product formed by overlapping convolutions of web material positioned in said interior, said coreless, center-pull roll product having a central opening extending therethrough in at least partial registry with said dispensing aperture defined by an innermost convolution of said web material and a lead end connected to said innermost convolution;
- a dispenser nozzle defining a passageway for said lead end, said dispenser nozzle positionable substantially wholly located within the confines of the coreless, center-pull roll product central opening, completely surrounded by said innermost convolution of said web material and completely within said interior which defines a first position, said nozzle being moveable to a second position spaced from said first position wherein said dispenser nozzle has at least a portion thereof located externally of said central opening, projects through said dispensing aperture and is connected to said container at said dispensing aperture during dispensing of said coreless, center-pull roll product;
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- a removable closure element for closing said dispensing aperture prior to dispensing of said coreless, center-pull roll product when said dispenser nozzle is located in said first position, said coreless, center-pull roll product lead end extending through said dispenser nozzle passageway both when said dispenser nozzle is located at said first position within said coreless, center-pull roll product central opening and also when said dispenser nozzle is located at said second position and is connected to said container at said dispensing aperture.
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