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EP1197443A1
EP1197443A1 EP00122107A EP00122107A EP1197443A1 EP 1197443 A1 EP1197443 A1 EP 1197443A1 EP 00122107 A EP00122107 A EP 00122107A EP 00122107 A EP00122107 A EP 00122107A EP 1197443 A1 EP1197443 A1 EP 1197443A1
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dispenser
tissue
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Widlund Urban
Gustafsson Anders
Kintzel Margret
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Essity Holding GmbH
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SCA Hygiene Products Holding GmbH
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    • 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
    • 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
    • A47K2010/3266—Wet wipes

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  • This invention relates to a disposable dispenser for dispensing toilet tissue, household towels, hand towels, facial tissue and the like, comprising said tissue or towels, the dispenser having an upper part and a lower part, the upper part having an opening for dispensing the tissue or towel.
  • a disposable dispenser is usually made from cardboard and has a box shape with a pair of opposed side walls, a bottom wall, a pair of opposed end walls and a top wall having a dispensing opening in it for dispensing tissue sheets or towels.
  • the tissue sheets or towels hereinafter both referred to as tissue sheets are usually each formed from two or more plies of wet formed, creped, cellulosic webs.
  • the tissue sheet is usually either C-folded or Z-folded for attachment to the underlying sheet such that when one tissue sheet is removed through the opening, the next one follows along and is detached from the first one only when the first one is completely removed from the dispenser. This means that the next sheet will stick up through the opening enabling the user to grip it and pull it out of the dispenser.
  • This type of dispenser is thus designed to enable the user to take one sheet at a time out of the dispenser, leaving the next tissue sheet protruding through the opening, ready for dispensing.
  • the object of the invention is to solve this problem and to provide a disposable dispenser which can be used with only one hand.
  • the holding means can be characterised by the force needed to hold the dispenser down and keep it from sliding when removing a tissue sheet from the dispenser.
  • the tissue must be able to be removed using only one hand.
  • the force needed will differ depending on the weight of the dispenser. In addition to the weight of the dispenser itself, regardless of how many tissue sheets are left in the dispenser, a force of 1 N will be enough to keep most dispensers down. If the force keeping the dispenser down is more than 2.6 N all dispensers, even fairly light weight dispensers or heavily packed dispensers, will be kept in place throughout removal of all the tissue sheets contained. If the force is more than 4 N the dispensers will also be stopped from sliding when tissue sheets are removed from the dispensers.
  • the holding means can be a weight.
  • the weight of that is preferably at least 100 g. More preferably it is 270 g and most preferably it is 400 g.
  • the weight is preferably reusably attached to the dispenser. This can be achieved by the disposable dispenser having an opening in the lower part of the dispenser through which the weight can be inserted and removed.
  • the opening can be provided in the bottom wall, one of the end walls or one of the side walls.
  • the holding means can be a glue system in the bottom of the lower part of the dispenser.
  • the glue system preferably comprises pressure sensitive adhesive.
  • FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a disposable dispenser 1 for tissue sheets according to one embodiment of the invention.
  • the disposable dispenser 1 is made from cardboard and has a box shape with a pair of opposed side walls 2, 3, a bottom wall 4, a pair of opposed end walls 5, 6 and a top wall 7 having a dispensing opening 8 therein for dispensing tissue sheets to the outside of the disposable dispenser 1.
  • a tissue sheet 9 is shown protruding through the opening 8 ready for grasping by the user.
  • the disposable dispenser 1 further has an upper part 10 and a lower part 11, schematically illustrated by dotted lines.
  • the opening 8 is in the upper part 10 of the dispenser 1.
  • a holding means 12 in the form of a weight is provided in the lower part 11 of the dispenser 1.
  • the weight is made from polypropylene.
  • the weight is of the same shape as the bottom of the dispenser and of slightly lesser size. This will prevent the weight from sliding inside the dispenser.
  • the necessary weight of the weight depends on the force needed to keep the dispenser down. Preferably it will be about 100 g.
  • the weight 12 is reusable and can be removed from the disposable dispenser 1 through an opening 13 in the end wall 5, and inserted in another dispenser when the dispenser 1 is to be thrown away.
  • the opening in this embodiment is covered by a flap 14, but this is not necessary for the invention to work.
  • the opening 13 and the flap 14 are in the lower part 11 of the dispenser 1.
  • FIG. 2 shows a perspective view of a disposable dispenser 101 for tissue sheets according to a second embodiment of the invention.
  • the dispenser 101 is shown in perspective view from the underside.
  • the disposable dispenser 101 is made from cardboard and has a box shape with a pair of opposed side walls 102, 103, a bottom wall 104, a pair of opposed end walls 105, 106 and a top wall 107 having a dispensing opening 108 (not shown) in it for dispensing tissue sheets to the outside of the disposable dispenser 101.
  • the disposable dispenser 101 further has an upper part 110 and a lower part 111.
  • the dispenser 101 has holding means 112 in the form of five pressure-sensitive adhesive strips arranged on the bottom wall 104 of the dispenser 101.
  • the adhesive can of course be applied in any form or with fewer or more strips within the scope of the invention.
  • the adhesive can be applied in other patterns, such as dots or all over the bottom wall 104 for example.
  • the important thing is that the user can remove one tissue sheet at a time from the dispenser 101 using only one hand and that the user can releasably remove the dispenser 101 from the table or other surface where it is placed when he or she so wishes.
  • a "releasably removable dispenser” means that the dispenser, after it has been removed from one surface and moved to another one, can function in the same way, solving the problem as stated above, dispensing one tissue at a time to a user using only one hand to pull the tissue sheet.
  • the pressure sensitive adhesive used is Lunatack D 58 from HB Fuller. Other adhesives which fulfil the required resistance force while allowing removal of the dispenser without any residual adhesives remaining on the surface can also be used.
  • the adhesive on the dispenser is covered with a release paper to protect the adhesive.
  • a suitable release paper for this use is the type of silicon covered paper used to protect pressure-sensitive adhesive on sanitary napkins and the like.
  • a tissue dispenser was attached with tape to a compression plate in an Instron 4464 machine. The tissue sheets were then pulled out from the dispenser with a speed of 2540 mm/min. The distance from where the clamp gripped the tissue sheet to the top of the dispenser was 50 mm. The clamp width was 50 mm.
  • tissue sheets were pulled out from the dispenser by the Instron machine (Tissue 1 to Tissue 10 in Table 1). Then, tissue sheets were removed until there were 20 tissue sheets left in the dispenser. Then five tissue sheets were pulled out by the Instron machine (" End of caps.” in Table 1.).
  • the force needed to pull out tissue sheets from the dispensers varied between 0.6-4.2 N. This means that the minimum force keeping the dispenser down in all tested cases would be above 4.2 N. However, in most cases a force of more than 2.5 N would be sufficient. Since the weight of the dispenser and its content contributes to the downward force, the force of the holding means only have to be larger than effort to remove one sheet minus the force exerted by the weight of the dispenser and its contents.
  • the force exerted by the dispenser is the weight of the dispenser in kg multiplied by 9.81 (acceleration due to gravity). From Table 2 it can be seen that the weight of the unopened tissue dispensers or capsules are between 164-226 g.
  • Table 3 the weight of one tissue sheet from each dispenser is shown. Three tissue sheets from each dispenser have been measured. The number of tissue sheets in each dispenser varies between 80 and 100. Lotus Mouchoirs Couliv contains 80 sheets, Zewa Clean & Soft and Kleenex Ultra Soft each contains 90 sheets, Tork Facial Tissue, Kleenex Family and Paseo Aloe Vera each contains 100 sheets.

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US20120279981A1 (en) * 2011-05-04 2012-11-08 S.C. Johnson & Son Inc. Process for storing and retrieving rolled flexible bags from a dispenserprocess for storing and retrieving rolled flexible bags from a dispenser
US8573398B2 (en) 2002-05-28 2013-11-05 Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products Lp Refillable flexible sheet dispenser

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US4411374A (en) 1981-08-03 1983-10-25 Kimberly-Clark Corporation Tissue dispenser system, plastic overwrap package therefor
US4735317A (en) * 1986-10-15 1988-04-05 Nordic Industries, Inc. Self sealing dispenser pack for pre-moistened towelettes
US4896773A (en) * 1987-01-16 1990-01-30 Tiziano Zilio Plastic box containing bags made of polyethylene for hygienic use grouped together with a double fold
EP0372781A1 (de) 1988-11-28 1990-06-13 Kimberly-Clark Limited Spendebehälter
US4986440A (en) * 1987-03-23 1991-01-22 Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company Dispenser for a stack of note paper
GB2251852A (en) * 1991-01-18 1992-07-22 Yearntree Ltd Paper dispensers
WO1994026158A1 (en) * 1993-05-18 1994-11-24 Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company Sheet dispenser with optional support or attachment means

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4411374A (en) 1981-08-03 1983-10-25 Kimberly-Clark Corporation Tissue dispenser system, plastic overwrap package therefor
US4735317A (en) * 1986-10-15 1988-04-05 Nordic Industries, Inc. Self sealing dispenser pack for pre-moistened towelettes
US4896773A (en) * 1987-01-16 1990-01-30 Tiziano Zilio Plastic box containing bags made of polyethylene for hygienic use grouped together with a double fold
US4986440A (en) * 1987-03-23 1991-01-22 Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company Dispenser for a stack of note paper
EP0372781A1 (de) 1988-11-28 1990-06-13 Kimberly-Clark Limited Spendebehälter
GB2251852A (en) * 1991-01-18 1992-07-22 Yearntree Ltd Paper dispensers
WO1994026158A1 (en) * 1993-05-18 1994-11-24 Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company Sheet dispenser with optional support or attachment means

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US8573398B2 (en) 2002-05-28 2013-11-05 Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products Lp Refillable flexible sheet dispenser
US20120279981A1 (en) * 2011-05-04 2012-11-08 S.C. Johnson & Son Inc. Process for storing and retrieving rolled flexible bags from a dispenserprocess for storing and retrieving rolled flexible bags from a dispenser

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