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EP0351196A1
EP0351196A1 EP89307050A EP89307050A EP0351196A1 EP 0351196 A1 EP0351196 A1 EP 0351196A1 EP 89307050 A EP89307050 A EP 89307050A EP 89307050 A EP89307050 A EP 89307050A EP 0351196 A1 EP0351196 A1 EP 0351196A1
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film
housing
dispenser
dispenser according
gripping
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David John Barnett
Andrew Paul Glover
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William Levene Ltd
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William Levene Ltd
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Priority claimed from GB888816780A external-priority patent/GB8816780D0/en
Priority claimed from GB8902695A external-priority patent/GB2227729A/en
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Publication of EP0351196A1 publication Critical patent/EP0351196A1/fr
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H35/00—Delivering articles from cutting or line-perforating machines; Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices, e.g. adhesive tape dispensers
    • B65H35/0006—Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices
    • B65H35/002—Hand-held or table apparatus
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47K—SANITARY EQUIPMENT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TOILET ACCESSORIES
    • A47K10/00—Body-drying implements; Toilet paper; Holders therefor
    • A47K10/24—Towel dispensers, e.g. for piled-up or folded textile towels; Toilet-paper dispensers; Dispensers for piled-up or folded textile towels provided or not with devices for taking-up soiled towels as far as not mechanically driven
    • A47K10/32—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper
    • A47K10/34—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper dispensing from a web, e.g. with mechanical dispensing means
    • A47K10/38—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper dispensing from a web, e.g. with mechanical dispensing means the web being rolled up with or without tearing edge
    • A47K10/3809—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper dispensing from a web, e.g. with mechanical dispensing means the web being rolled up with or without tearing edge with roll spindles which are not directly supported
    • A47K10/3827—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper dispensing from a web, e.g. with mechanical dispensing means the web being rolled up with or without tearing edge with roll spindles which are not directly supported with a distribution opening which is parallel to the rotation axis
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D83/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
    • B65D83/08—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing thin flat articles in succession
    • B65D83/0805—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing thin flat articles in succession through an aperture in a wall
    • B65D83/0811—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing thin flat articles in succession through an aperture in a wall with means for assisting dispensing
    • B65D83/0841—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing thin flat articles in succession through an aperture in a wall with means for assisting dispensing and for cutting interconnected articles

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  • the invention relates to a dispenser, in particular to one for installation in a domestic environment e.g a kitchen and for dispensing sheet plastics film material known colloquially as "Clingfilm.”
  • Such dispensers are known from, e.g. GB-A-1124769, US-A-3311278 and GB-A-1,488946.
  • GB-A-1488946 discloses a dispenser for dispensing a length portion of Clingfilm or like film material from a roll thereof, the dispenser comprising a housing having a chamber to receive the roll, the chamber having an elongate outlet slot, cutting means spaced from one side of the slot and gripping means to grip a trailing portion of the film while a leading portion is being cut.
  • the gripping means comprises a clamping arrangement in which the user presses the edge of the cover of the dispenser onto a resilient pad, while the leading portion is being cut.
  • a dispenser described above is characterised in that the gripping means comprises a surface adapted to frictionally engage the trailing portion of the film.
  • the gripping means preferably comprises a body of natural or synthetic rubber or plastics having a gripping surface which has sufficient coefficient of friction that the Clingfilm can be held thereto solely by the frictional engagement.
  • the selection of the material to provide the gripping surface will depend on the particular film used and can readily be determined by routine testing.
  • the cutter means comprises a blade located on the outside of the housing, and the gripping means is also located on the outside of the housing between the outlet slot and the blade generally parallel to the outlet slot.
  • Release means are therefore preferably present to urge the film material away from the gripping surface, once a leading portion has been cut off.
  • the release means are resilient, and are arranged at rest to be located remote from the gripping surface and to be urged towards that surface when the film is moved to contact the gripping surface, and to be urged to the at rest condition thereby urging the trailing film away from the gripping surface, once the leading portion of the film has been cut off.
  • the gripping surface is preferably in the form of two longitudinally spaced apart strips generally parallel to the outlet slot and the release means preferably comprises a spring finger located within the space between the strips.
  • extra guide means are provided, such as a bead along the adjacent edge of the slot.
  • outlet slot is wide e.g flares outwardly so that a leading portion of the sheet material may be pulled off the roll within the chamber of the housing through a range of included angles, say between 0° and 90° to the horizontal.
  • the housing be in two interengagable parts so that it may readily be opened to allow for the insertion of a roll of the film material, typically Clingfilm.
  • the dispenser comprises an elongate cylindrical housing 1 in two longitudinal halves, 1A, 1B, hinged together about a common edge.
  • the two longitudinal halves of the housing incorporate complementary latching parts 1D by which the halves may be held releasably together by a hinge 1C.
  • One of the halves 1A has a number of spaced apart holes 2 by which it may be releasably secured to corresponding pegs in support 3 e.g a bracket screwed to a kitchen wall or the wall of a kitchen unit.
  • the inner faces of the end walls 4 of the housing 1 have shoulders including radial spokes 5, to receive the ends of a roll, R, on which is wound plastics sheet material called "Clingfilm".
  • a longitudinal slot 6 At the lower side of the housing as seen in Figure 1, is a longitudinal slot 6.
  • One side 6A of the slot 6 is inclined outwardly so that the slot 6 defines a wide outlet.
  • the facing wall of the slot 6B incorporates a longitudinal bead 7.
  • the surface of the bead 7 is textured so that the film will glide over and not adhere thereto.
  • a gripping or friction strip 8 of natural or synthetic rubber or plastics is fixed e.g glued or mechanically latched in an elongate slot 9 in the outside wall of the housing a short distance from the bead 7 and beyond that is a cutter blade 10 mounted in a parallel slot 11.
  • the strip 8 may be made of a wide variety of materials such as natural or synthetic rubber or plastics, including neoprene, thermoplastic vulcanised rubber or the like, which are selected and arranged so as to allow the film to be gripped thereby by friction alone, without requiring extra clamping means.
  • the corner 12 of the strip 8 is slightly rounded as shown.
  • the blade 10 may be of metal and be provided with a serrated edge, as shown.
  • the strip 8 is in two longitudinal halves 8A, 8B with a gap in between, near the longitudinal centre of the housing 1.
  • a release spring 13 made of metal is secured to the housing in that gap and comprises a base 14 in contact with the housing and from which extends an integral spring finger 15.
  • the free end 16 of the base 14 in contact with the housing is secured within the slot 11.
  • the finger 15 is hinged near the slot 6 so that it can be flexed towards the housing between the halves 8A, 8B of the strip 8.
  • the resilience of the release spring 13 is selected such that tension applied to the film by the user as he urges the film towards the gripping surface will be sufficient to urge the spring 13 towards the housing 1 to allow the surface 8 to grip the film, but will urge the film away from the surfaces when the leading portion of the film has been detached.
  • the housing 1 is opened and a roll R of Clingfilm is fitted inside, the ends of the roll R being engaged in the end spools 5 of the housing.
  • the housing 1 may be engaged with the bracket 3 by which it is held to a wall.
  • the user wants to wrap an article in Clingfilm, the user pulls sufficient leading the end portion of the film out of the outlet slot 6. As shown, he pulls the film downwardly. He then wraps that leading end portion about the article while the portion is still part of the roll R. Because the outlet slot 6 is so wide, the film can be pulled out at any angle. The user then brings the portion of the film rearward of the wrapped leading end portion upwardly to engage the adjacent edge of the bead 7 which directs the film towards the rubber strip 8.
  • the user may use the dispenser while detached from the bracket 3 by bringing the dispenser to the article to be covered, securing the free end of the film to the article and moving the dispenser across the article so as to dispense sufficient film to wrap that article.
  • the dispenser may then be rotated until the gripping surface 8 grips the film and the leading portion of the film is urged against the cutting blade 10 to cut off that portion.
  • the dispenser may be used with a wide range of cuttable films, including wrap or shrink wrap films, perforated or not. These may be made of polyvinylchloride, polyethylene, SARAN or the like. Some may be plasticiser-free or especially adapted for food or microwave use.
  • the invention is not limited to the embodiments shown.
  • the gripping surface may be roughened and the cutter and/or the spring 13 may be integrally formed with the housing.
  • the cutter blade 10 may be formed of a suitable plastics.
  • the dispenser may be used in a domestic or industrial (eg catering) environment.
EP89307050A 1988-07-14 1989-07-11 Distributeur Withdrawn EP0351196A1 (fr)

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GB888816780A GB8816780D0 (en) 1988-07-14 1988-07-14 Dispenser
GB8816780 1988-07-14
GB8902695 1989-02-07
GB8902695A GB2227729A (en) 1989-02-07 1989-02-07 Plastics film dispenser

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EP0351196A1 true EP0351196A1 (fr) 1990-01-17

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Cited By (5)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO1994005580A1 (fr) * 1992-08-27 1994-03-17 The Axis Group Inc. Distributeur de film d'emballage alimentaire en matiere plastique
WO1997017272A1 (fr) * 1995-11-09 1997-05-15 Maurizio Graffei Devidoir/support pour films a usage domestique, en polyethylene, en aluminium, en papier allant au four et analogue, enroules sur un mandrin
WO1998032615A1 (fr) * 1997-01-23 1998-07-30 Louis Leitz International Gmbh & Co Distributeur portatif pour feuilles
EP0876982A1 (fr) * 1997-05-07 1998-11-11 Seb S.A. Distributeur de feuilles d'un produit conditionné en rouleau
US8714428B2 (en) 2009-07-24 2014-05-06 Reynolds Consumer Products Inc. Sheet product dispenser

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US3549066A (en) * 1968-06-18 1970-12-22 Union Carbide Corp Dispensing carton
US3565307A (en) * 1968-11-21 1971-02-23 Reynolds Metals Co Dispensing carton for rolls of sheet material
EP0046372A2 (fr) * 1980-08-20 1982-02-24 Douglas Kitchener Gatward Distributeur en rouleau
FR2602758A1 (fr) * 1986-07-28 1988-02-19 Baratcabal Pierre Dispositif de conditionnement faisant office de protection, de devidoir et de coupe pour toute matiere utilise sous forme de bande enroulee, comme, par exemple : papier, plastique, textile

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3549066A (en) * 1968-06-18 1970-12-22 Union Carbide Corp Dispensing carton
US3565307A (en) * 1968-11-21 1971-02-23 Reynolds Metals Co Dispensing carton for rolls of sheet material
EP0046372A2 (fr) * 1980-08-20 1982-02-24 Douglas Kitchener Gatward Distributeur en rouleau
FR2602758A1 (fr) * 1986-07-28 1988-02-19 Baratcabal Pierre Dispositif de conditionnement faisant office de protection, de devidoir et de coupe pour toute matiere utilise sous forme de bande enroulee, comme, par exemple : papier, plastique, textile

Cited By (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO1994005580A1 (fr) * 1992-08-27 1994-03-17 The Axis Group Inc. Distributeur de film d'emballage alimentaire en matiere plastique
WO1997017272A1 (fr) * 1995-11-09 1997-05-15 Maurizio Graffei Devidoir/support pour films a usage domestique, en polyethylene, en aluminium, en papier allant au four et analogue, enroules sur un mandrin
WO1998032615A1 (fr) * 1997-01-23 1998-07-30 Louis Leitz International Gmbh & Co Distributeur portatif pour feuilles
EP0876982A1 (fr) * 1997-05-07 1998-11-11 Seb S.A. Distributeur de feuilles d'un produit conditionné en rouleau
FR2763058A1 (fr) * 1997-05-07 1998-11-13 Seb Sa Distributeur de feuilles d'un produit conditionne en rouleau
US8714428B2 (en) 2009-07-24 2014-05-06 Reynolds Consumer Products Inc. Sheet product dispenser

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