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US 5,540,354 AGranted
Top dispensing tissue container and bulk tissue packets
AssigneeB.F.A. Manufacturing Limited
InventorCharles A. Annand
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AssigneeB.F.A. Manufacturing Limited
InventorCharles A. Annand
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Broadly the present invention provides a semipermanent and reusable container for facial tissue which will be of low cost molded plastic and which will use facial tissues from a standard commercial box or from a compressed individual packet or from a compressed packet removed from a bulk pack of tissue packets, and where the tissues will be removed vertically from the top opening, one tissue at a time. An internal control plate will control the subsequent removal of tissues from the packet inside the container one tissue at a time and will also assist in holding the tissue vertically for ease of removal. The container is fitted with a detachable bottom to support the packet of facial tissues. The packets are from a compressed packet of tissues or from a standard box of loose packed tissues. The tissue packets may be contained within a poly pack and with an integral carrying strap and which may also contain the dispenser and its basic plastic parts within the poly pack to reduce packaging and shipping costs.
In combination with a packet of facial tissues within a restraint wrapper provided in a bulk pack, a refillable container adapted to receive said facial tissues, in the form of a supply of interleaved and interlayered tissues, said container being reusable and semipermanent and having an open bottom, a top, a pair of opposed end walls, and a pair of opposed side walls, an internal crowned control plate of substantial weight resting on said supply of facial tissue and being located between said top and said supply of facial tissues, said top having a convenient opening said control plate having an opening similar to the opening in said top for allowing a progressive one at a time removal of one tissue of said supply of facial tissues through said opening in said control plate and said opening in said top, said control plate controlling the one at a time removal by maintaining a friction between the interplys of the tissues.
A refillable container for dispensing tissues from a stack of folded tissues having reverse interleaved folds at opposite sides of said stack, said container including opposite side panels and opposite end panels for containing said stack with the opposite sides of said stack disposed adjacent side opposite side panels and ends of said stack disposed adjacent said end panels, and a crowned control plate of substantial weight having bottom tissue engaging surface portions for resting on a top of said stack, said control plate having an opening,
A refillable container for dispensing tissues sequentially from an interleaved stack of tissues, said tissues having reversed interleaved folds at opposite sides of said stack,
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