CA1254071A - Packet of zig-zag folded continuous length of absorbable paper material - Google Patents
Packet of zig-zag folded continuous length of absorbable paper materialInfo
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Abstract
ABSTRACT
A packet of zig-zag folded, continuous web product is provided, which is adapted for hygienic use (for example as toweling). The packet is provided on the end layers with strips that have adhesive on both sides, to enable the package to be coupled together. After use, the packet is rolled up into a roll. The web material is provided with higher tensile strength than normal to achieve this, which may be obtained by added reinforcement to the web material. The packets preferably consist of paper that is strengthened with synthetic materials or may consist of textile materials that can be re-used after cleaning.
A packet of zig-zag folded, continuous web product is provided, which is adapted for hygienic use (for example as toweling). The packet is provided on the end layers with strips that have adhesive on both sides, to enable the package to be coupled together. After use, the packet is rolled up into a roll. The web material is provided with higher tensile strength than normal to achieve this, which may be obtained by added reinforcement to the web material. The packets preferably consist of paper that is strengthened with synthetic materials or may consist of textile materials that can be re-used after cleaning.
Description
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This a~-1ication is a division of application ~erlal ,~o. 4~7,3U3 filed Septembex 22, 1983.
This invention relates to a packet of zigzag folded continuous web product, which is particularly adapted for hygienic use (such as toweling). This packet is especially adapted for use in an apparatus for dispensing a continuous web of product and particularly that apparatus described and claimed in co-pending Canadian Patent Application 437,303, the apparatus having a supply chamber for one or more such packets of unused product, from which the web is brought to a dispensing space, accessible from outside the apparatus for drying hands and the like, and rolling up means for the used web, which stores the used web as a roll without the users having to perform any operation themselves.
Apparatus of this general sort without the used web storing facility are well known, see for example US
patent 2,809,082 to Marcuse, and are especially used in spaces, such as lavatories, washrooms, changing-rooms, etc. These machines use 2igzag folded continuous web products comprising paper, which the user can draw off a towel length each time from the packet, tear if off and use it.
These known apparatus, and consequently their continuous web packets have the disadvantage that used web materials have to be thrown by the users into a bin or basket, which is emptied by special service personnel. While service personnel usually work at night, but the users use the towels especially during the day and also at other times, there are sometimes periods during the day or night, in which the users find an overflowing bin or basket, so that these towels get onto the floor. This situation is unhygienic and therefor undesirable.
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The object of this invention is to provide a packet a~apted to a dlspensing apparatus, in which the used web is removed by rolling up into a roll, without the users having to perform any operation themselves. The stored used web roll can be removed quickly from the dispensing apparatus.
This object is achieved according to the invention by providing a packet of continuous web product, adapted to be rolled up and stored in a dispensing apparatus.
More particularly, there is provided in a accordance with this invention, a packet of zigzag folded, continuous web of product, capable of hygienic use, such as towels or the like, wherein the continuous web comprises paper material having a reinforcement for enhancing this tensile strength, and in which the outer end layers are provided with coupling means which are adapted for coupling with a counter coupling means of a similar packet.
By application of the invention there are provided zigzag folded continuous web packets as unused product, which form rolls after use, which can be removed quickly by service personnel.
The invention relates to a packet of continuous web product, especially adapted for hygienic use, such as towels, which continuous web is zigzag folded to a packet. If this packet consists of paper having insufficient tensile strength, which could lead to undesired tearing off, according to another embodiment of the invention a reinforcement is applied, which consists for e~ample of synthetic material, such as a fabric or fleece of filaments, or of a thin layer or film of synthetic material which is provided with perforations.
In order to roll up the web material after use, sufficient tensile strength must be present for this to 0'7~
be possible. Thus an enhancement of tensile strength of the material is required for operability, compared to some of the flimsier web materials available, such as ordinary tissue products. This enhallcement is provided by the applied reinforcement.
According to another embodiment of the invention the outer end layers of the packet of product is provided with coupling means, which are adapted to be coupled to the counter coupling means of a similar packet.
According to yet another embodiment of the invention the coupling means consists of two sided adhesive strip with a removable cover strip on the side that is to be coupled with the counter coupling means.
This has as a result, that the packet which is being used does not need to be completely used before the beginning layer of the next packet can be brought into the dispensing position. Thus regular lengthening of the web is possible by providing multiple coupled packets so that the amount of unused product can vary between wide limits. The supply chamber can contain a serial working supply of unused packets, preventing exhaustion of the entire supply. This guarantees that the user can get always a length of unused towel.
The invention is now described and elucidated referring to the accompanying schematic drawing, which shows a cross section of a continuous web dispensing apparatus (described and claimed in co-pending Canadian Patent Application 437,3033, of the type which the packe-t of the invention is specially adapted therefor.
In the drawing an embodiment is shown of an apparatus for dispensing a web of product, particularly adapted for hygienic use, such as towels r which is adapted for placing in a lavatory, washing or changing room and such. The apparatus comprises a bod~ that is ~2~g37~
partly enclosed by a (not shown) removable hoodO The body has a back wall 1, with which the apparatus can be mounted on a (not illustrated) wall of, for instance, a lavatory space at the average shoulder height. The body comprises two side walls, of which only the further side wall 2 is shown. On the front side wall 2 has a substantially vertical front edge 3, which has on the upper and lower side a preferably backward sloping part 4 and 5 respectively. The lower side oE the body is provided with a bottom 6, which has a strip 6A that slopes upwardly consonant with front edge part 5.
setween the upper lip of this bottom part 6A and the front 3 an opening 7 is left free. At the back of the body between the bottom 6 and the lower edge of the back wall 1 the opening 8 is left free.
The top of the body between the top of the back wall 1 and the top of the front edge part 4 the opening 9 is left free. This opening 9 gives access to the supply chamber 10 for clean (unused) product, which is in the form of one or more packets llA, llB, etc. The cross section of the opening 9 to the supply chamber 10 is at least as great as the cross section of this supply chamber. This supply chamber 10 is formed by the front wall 12, side walls of which only one side wall 13 is shown in the drawing, and the bottom 14. This bottom 14 is provided with an outlet slit 15, which is located rearwardly of the centerline of the bottom 14 and which runs along substantially the entire length of the supply chamber. This outlet slit 15 has an outlet funnel 16 for guiding the web of product 17.
The web of product llA, that rests on the lower side of the supply chamber 10 on the bottom 14, comprises a zigzag folded web of product. From the lower side this product 17 runs through the slit 15 to the bottom of guide roll 13, thence upward to the upper ~2~7~
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guide roller 19, in order to then run downward behind the (not shown) hood and the front 3. The product web 17 leaves the front of the housing through the opening 7 and forms a downward loop 20 in the dispensing space and reenters via the opening 8.
Above the opening 8 the web 20 runs between a guide plate 21, which flattens material, if creased, and the back wall 1, to be guided over the rounded top of the guide plate 21 to the pressure roller 22. This pressure roller 22 presses against the roller 23, on which the used product 20 is collected as a roll. The part 24 between the top of the guide plate 21 and the pressure roller 22 is kept pressed against the pressure roller 22 by the guide plate 25, which is pivotly fastened above the guide plate 21 to the inside of the back wall 1 and keeps the part 24 taut. Thus return of the product web is not possible. So to adapt to the variable diameter of the used material roller 23 the pressure roller is furthermore movable in a slanting upward and downward direction in the guides 26, which are fastened to the side wall of the body. Furthermore the guide 27 ensures that the web 2~ cannot get any transverse deviations.
The guide roller 19 on the upper side of the apparatus is also vertically movable in the guide 28.
The upper side of the product packet llA is provided with a two sided adhesive strip 29 r as is the lower side of the higher packet llB. By removing the cover strip from the adhesive outside of this adhesive strip and pressing both packets together, the coupling between the upper end layer of the bottom packet llA and the lower beginning layer oE the top packet lls is formed. This ensures that the user always gets an uninterrupted supply of unused or clean product 17.
After product 17 has moved into the loop 20 and has been ~ 5~
. , used for drying the hands, the product is rolled up into the roller 23 which is interconnected with roller 18 so that rotation of roller 18 causes a corresponding rotation of roller 23. When this roll on roller 23 has reached suitable dimensions it can be removed from the apparatus via opening 7 or removable bottom 6 by service personnel. Service personnel can also add through the inlet opening 9 one or more additional packets 11 and couple these to a packet already present. The inlet opening 9 can suitably be provided with a (not shown~
removable lid or be closed off by the (not shown) hood.
A web of product paper can be used which is reinforced with a fabric or fleece of synthetic material. It is however also possible to use a textile fabric from natural or synthetic fibers or of mixtures thereof. When the web of product paper has been used, the collected roll 23 will normally be thrown away.
When textile material is used~ this will in most cases, be used after washing.
The operation of the apparatus is as follows: the user pulls with both hands on the web 17, where this leaves the opening 7 of the body and obtains a length of clean unused towel 20. As the rollers 18 and 23 are rotatably inter-connected by (not shown) means, the used, dirty web 20 is automatically rolled up on the roller 23 by this pull. Furthermore (not shown) optionally adjustable means are present for adjusting the length of the towel and blocking a new dispensing during an adjustable time after the last dispensin~.
Although this invention is described in terms of specific embodiments, as is apparent to those s~illed in the art, numerous variations and modifications of the invention are possible other than those described without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
This a~-1ication is a division of application ~erlal ,~o. 4~7,3U3 filed Septembex 22, 1983.
This invention relates to a packet of zigzag folded continuous web product, which is particularly adapted for hygienic use (such as toweling). This packet is especially adapted for use in an apparatus for dispensing a continuous web of product and particularly that apparatus described and claimed in co-pending Canadian Patent Application 437,303, the apparatus having a supply chamber for one or more such packets of unused product, from which the web is brought to a dispensing space, accessible from outside the apparatus for drying hands and the like, and rolling up means for the used web, which stores the used web as a roll without the users having to perform any operation themselves.
Apparatus of this general sort without the used web storing facility are well known, see for example US
patent 2,809,082 to Marcuse, and are especially used in spaces, such as lavatories, washrooms, changing-rooms, etc. These machines use 2igzag folded continuous web products comprising paper, which the user can draw off a towel length each time from the packet, tear if off and use it.
These known apparatus, and consequently their continuous web packets have the disadvantage that used web materials have to be thrown by the users into a bin or basket, which is emptied by special service personnel. While service personnel usually work at night, but the users use the towels especially during the day and also at other times, there are sometimes periods during the day or night, in which the users find an overflowing bin or basket, so that these towels get onto the floor. This situation is unhygienic and therefor undesirable.
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The object of this invention is to provide a packet a~apted to a dlspensing apparatus, in which the used web is removed by rolling up into a roll, without the users having to perform any operation themselves. The stored used web roll can be removed quickly from the dispensing apparatus.
This object is achieved according to the invention by providing a packet of continuous web product, adapted to be rolled up and stored in a dispensing apparatus.
More particularly, there is provided in a accordance with this invention, a packet of zigzag folded, continuous web of product, capable of hygienic use, such as towels or the like, wherein the continuous web comprises paper material having a reinforcement for enhancing this tensile strength, and in which the outer end layers are provided with coupling means which are adapted for coupling with a counter coupling means of a similar packet.
By application of the invention there are provided zigzag folded continuous web packets as unused product, which form rolls after use, which can be removed quickly by service personnel.
The invention relates to a packet of continuous web product, especially adapted for hygienic use, such as towels, which continuous web is zigzag folded to a packet. If this packet consists of paper having insufficient tensile strength, which could lead to undesired tearing off, according to another embodiment of the invention a reinforcement is applied, which consists for e~ample of synthetic material, such as a fabric or fleece of filaments, or of a thin layer or film of synthetic material which is provided with perforations.
In order to roll up the web material after use, sufficient tensile strength must be present for this to 0'7~
be possible. Thus an enhancement of tensile strength of the material is required for operability, compared to some of the flimsier web materials available, such as ordinary tissue products. This enhallcement is provided by the applied reinforcement.
According to another embodiment of the invention the outer end layers of the packet of product is provided with coupling means, which are adapted to be coupled to the counter coupling means of a similar packet.
According to yet another embodiment of the invention the coupling means consists of two sided adhesive strip with a removable cover strip on the side that is to be coupled with the counter coupling means.
This has as a result, that the packet which is being used does not need to be completely used before the beginning layer of the next packet can be brought into the dispensing position. Thus regular lengthening of the web is possible by providing multiple coupled packets so that the amount of unused product can vary between wide limits. The supply chamber can contain a serial working supply of unused packets, preventing exhaustion of the entire supply. This guarantees that the user can get always a length of unused towel.
The invention is now described and elucidated referring to the accompanying schematic drawing, which shows a cross section of a continuous web dispensing apparatus (described and claimed in co-pending Canadian Patent Application 437,3033, of the type which the packe-t of the invention is specially adapted therefor.
In the drawing an embodiment is shown of an apparatus for dispensing a web of product, particularly adapted for hygienic use, such as towels r which is adapted for placing in a lavatory, washing or changing room and such. The apparatus comprises a bod~ that is ~2~g37~
partly enclosed by a (not shown) removable hoodO The body has a back wall 1, with which the apparatus can be mounted on a (not illustrated) wall of, for instance, a lavatory space at the average shoulder height. The body comprises two side walls, of which only the further side wall 2 is shown. On the front side wall 2 has a substantially vertical front edge 3, which has on the upper and lower side a preferably backward sloping part 4 and 5 respectively. The lower side oE the body is provided with a bottom 6, which has a strip 6A that slopes upwardly consonant with front edge part 5.
setween the upper lip of this bottom part 6A and the front 3 an opening 7 is left free. At the back of the body between the bottom 6 and the lower edge of the back wall 1 the opening 8 is left free.
The top of the body between the top of the back wall 1 and the top of the front edge part 4 the opening 9 is left free. This opening 9 gives access to the supply chamber 10 for clean (unused) product, which is in the form of one or more packets llA, llB, etc. The cross section of the opening 9 to the supply chamber 10 is at least as great as the cross section of this supply chamber. This supply chamber 10 is formed by the front wall 12, side walls of which only one side wall 13 is shown in the drawing, and the bottom 14. This bottom 14 is provided with an outlet slit 15, which is located rearwardly of the centerline of the bottom 14 and which runs along substantially the entire length of the supply chamber. This outlet slit 15 has an outlet funnel 16 for guiding the web of product 17.
The web of product llA, that rests on the lower side of the supply chamber 10 on the bottom 14, comprises a zigzag folded web of product. From the lower side this product 17 runs through the slit 15 to the bottom of guide roll 13, thence upward to the upper ~2~7~
. .
guide roller 19, in order to then run downward behind the (not shown) hood and the front 3. The product web 17 leaves the front of the housing through the opening 7 and forms a downward loop 20 in the dispensing space and reenters via the opening 8.
Above the opening 8 the web 20 runs between a guide plate 21, which flattens material, if creased, and the back wall 1, to be guided over the rounded top of the guide plate 21 to the pressure roller 22. This pressure roller 22 presses against the roller 23, on which the used product 20 is collected as a roll. The part 24 between the top of the guide plate 21 and the pressure roller 22 is kept pressed against the pressure roller 22 by the guide plate 25, which is pivotly fastened above the guide plate 21 to the inside of the back wall 1 and keeps the part 24 taut. Thus return of the product web is not possible. So to adapt to the variable diameter of the used material roller 23 the pressure roller is furthermore movable in a slanting upward and downward direction in the guides 26, which are fastened to the side wall of the body. Furthermore the guide 27 ensures that the web 2~ cannot get any transverse deviations.
The guide roller 19 on the upper side of the apparatus is also vertically movable in the guide 28.
The upper side of the product packet llA is provided with a two sided adhesive strip 29 r as is the lower side of the higher packet llB. By removing the cover strip from the adhesive outside of this adhesive strip and pressing both packets together, the coupling between the upper end layer of the bottom packet llA and the lower beginning layer oE the top packet lls is formed. This ensures that the user always gets an uninterrupted supply of unused or clean product 17.
After product 17 has moved into the loop 20 and has been ~ 5~
. , used for drying the hands, the product is rolled up into the roller 23 which is interconnected with roller 18 so that rotation of roller 18 causes a corresponding rotation of roller 23. When this roll on roller 23 has reached suitable dimensions it can be removed from the apparatus via opening 7 or removable bottom 6 by service personnel. Service personnel can also add through the inlet opening 9 one or more additional packets 11 and couple these to a packet already present. The inlet opening 9 can suitably be provided with a (not shown~
removable lid or be closed off by the (not shown) hood.
A web of product paper can be used which is reinforced with a fabric or fleece of synthetic material. It is however also possible to use a textile fabric from natural or synthetic fibers or of mixtures thereof. When the web of product paper has been used, the collected roll 23 will normally be thrown away.
When textile material is used~ this will in most cases, be used after washing.
The operation of the apparatus is as follows: the user pulls with both hands on the web 17, where this leaves the opening 7 of the body and obtains a length of clean unused towel 20. As the rollers 18 and 23 are rotatably inter-connected by (not shown) means, the used, dirty web 20 is automatically rolled up on the roller 23 by this pull. Furthermore (not shown) optionally adjustable means are present for adjusting the length of the towel and blocking a new dispensing during an adjustable time after the last dispensin~.
Although this invention is described in terms of specific embodiments, as is apparent to those s~illed in the art, numerous variations and modifications of the invention are possible other than those described without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
Claims (7)
1. A packet of zig-zag folded continuous length of a toweling product adapted for use in an apparatus for dispensing a desired length of towel for hygienic use and comprising a continuous web of moisture-absorbable paper material, said web having a plurality of zig-zag folds therein to form said packet and wherein adjacent sections of the continuous towel length are in juxtaposition with each other, said web having tensile strength reinforcing means associated therewith for reducing the tear susceptibility during use of towel sections and to permit rolling-up of said towel product after use.
2. A packet of zigzag folded, continuous web product according to claim 1, wherein said reinforcement comprises synthetic material.
3. A packet of zigzag folded, continuous web of product according to claim 1, wherein said reinforcement is in the form of a fabric or fleece of filaments that is united with the paper.
4. A packet of zigzag folded continuous web of product according to claims 1, 2 or 3, wherein said reinforcement is in the form of a thin layer of synthetic material.
5. A packet of zigzag folded continuous web of product, according to claim 1, wherein the outer end layers are provided with coupling means, which are adapted for coupling with a counter coupling means of a similar packet.
6. A packet of zigzag folded continuous web of product according to claim 5, wherein said coupling means comprises a two-sided adhesive tape with a removable cover strip on the side that is to be coupled with the counter coupling means.
7. In a packet of zigzag folded, continuous web paper product, adapted for hygienic use, wherein the web material has tensile strength reinforcing means associated therewith for reducing the tear susceptibility during use of said web product and to permit rolling-up of said web product after use.
Priority Applications (1)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| CA000512463A CA1254071A (en) | 1982-09-24 | 1986-06-25 | Packet of zig-zag folded continuous length of absorbable paper material |
Applications Claiming Priority (4)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| NL8203720A NL8203720A (en) | 1982-09-24 | 1982-09-24 | Device for dispensing a web-like product, in particular intended for hygienic use, such as towels; ALSO PACKAGE-LAYERED PRODUCT, ESPECIALLY FOR HYGIENIC USE SUCH AS TOWELS. |
| NL8203720 | 1982-09-24 | ||
| CA000437303A CA1213567A (en) | 1982-09-24 | 1983-09-22 | Automatic towel apparatus |
| CA000512463A CA1254071A (en) | 1982-09-24 | 1986-06-25 | Packet of zig-zag folded continuous length of absorbable paper material |
Related Parent Applications (1)
| Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
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| CA000437303A Division CA1213567A (en) | 1982-09-24 | 1983-09-22 | Automatic towel apparatus |
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| CA1254071A true CA1254071A (en) | 1989-05-16 |
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| Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
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| CA000512463A Expired CA1254071A (en) | 1982-09-24 | 1986-06-25 | Packet of zig-zag folded continuous length of absorbable paper material |
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