Tissue dispensing device

A dispensing method for adapting a standard tissue carton with a tissue dispensing device, the standard tissue carton being of the type formed as a rectangular box containing a stack of folded, interleaved tissues and having a dispenser aperture formed in a top surface of the tissue carton with a dispensing membrane held within the dispenser aperture which can be separated to provide a membrane opening through which tissues are pulled and which retains a leading part of a tissue for a user to grasp the next tissue to be dispensed,

• said dispensing method comprising the step of enabling a tissue dispensing device formed as a helical coil spring that is highly stretchy to have a top coil fastened around the dispenser aperture in the top surface of the tissue carton and the remainder of the helical coil spring inserted into a space between the top surface of the tissue carton and top of the stack of tissues within the carton with a bottom coil thereof resting on top of the stack of tissues.

An improvement to a standard tissue carton of the type formed as a rectangular box containing a stack of folded, interleaved tissues and having a dispenser aperture formed in a top surface of the tissue carton with a dispensing membrane held within the dispenser aperture which can be separated to provide a membrane opening through which tissues are pulled and which retains a leading part of a tissue for a user to grasp the next tissue to be dispensed, comprising:

• a tissue dispensing device formed as a helical coil spring that is highly stretchy and having its top coil fastened around the dispenser aperture in the top surface of the tissue carton and the remainder of the helical coil spring inserted into a space between the top surface of the tissue carton and top of the stack of tissues within the carton with a bottom coil thereof resting on top of the stack of tissues.