Classifications

• • 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
• • 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
  • A47K10/42—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper dispensing from a store of single sheets, e.g. stacked
• • 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
  • A47K2010/3233—Details of the housing, e.g. hinges, connection to the wall

Definitions

• the invention relates to the technical sector of the apparatus of pre-cut materials wound in coil or folded in "Z", in particular for wiping materials such as hand towels, toilet paper, paper towels, paper, cellulose wadding , of nonwoven material.
• wiping materials such as hand towels, toilet paper, paper towels, paper, cellulose wadding , of nonwoven material.
• the Applicant has developed a dispensing apparatus for pre-cut wiping materials, object of the French patent 2 931 350.
• This device is of the type comprising a housing forming a receptacle with a bottom plate, a lower horizontal wall and side walls with a hinged lid on an axis.
• This apparatus further comprises a hinged flap relative to the housing walls in the lower part of the latter, according to the teaching of this patent.
• This shutter is fixed by clipping relative to said walls to allow it to be positioned in a vertical plane.
• the flap In its upper part, the flap has an advantageously curvilinear shape, and in its lower part, a central cut substantially in a semicircle to allow the output of the pre-cut wiping material.
• the cover also has on its underside a central cutout similar to the aforementioned cut. These so-called central cuts on the shutter and the cover have the sole and exclusive function of allowing the exit of the strip of material during its gripping and pulling by the user.
• the wiping material (M) in this embodiment is established in the form of a coil-wound strip being pre-cut, or it may be in a pre-bent Z-position.
• the lower part of the apparatus at the exit point of the material has opposite stops on either side of the strip of material, ensuring the separation of a strip format with respect to the pre-cut line next to the band.
• the tensile force will ensure at the end of the passage of the strip between the front wall of the flap and the face facing the cover the separation of a strip format relative to the remainder of the coil or the stack of folded material.
• said stops are adjustable in position on either side of the outlet opening of the material strip, and this by appropriate sliding means.
• the Applicant has found that during the exit of the strip of material occurs a creasing effect of the material strip due to the narrowing effect of the material strip during its passage between the stops. In principle, this is not a problem, because most users do not attach importance to the presentation of the strip of material cut by the use that is made of it with inevitably folding during wiper function.
• the Applicant has designed a new apparatus subject to the patent F 2 960 760. Briefly, the apparatus comprises a housing with an articulated lid and arranged on an axis, and an articulated flap on the side walls of the housing.
• the strip of pre-cut or pre-folded Z-shaped material is likely to bypass the upper portion of curvilinear shape disposed at the upper end of the flap.
• the strip of material (M) thus passes in front of the shutter and against the inner face of the cover.
• the cover In its lower part, the cover has a central cutout and the shutter a central cutout for the passage and evacuation of the material strip.
• the flap and the cover have pairs of curvilinear complementary shapes in the form of a rainbow that can partially fit during the passage of the strip of material and more specifically the parts are the ribs and grooves.
• This material is in some way passing between complementary groove-rib shapes.
• the original purpose of this invention to prevent wrinkling of the web of material is not fully achieved for material thickness problems found on the markets and proposed by many manufacturers.
• the central cutouts formed on the shutter and the cover have the sole and exclusive function of allowing the exit of the strip of material during its gripping and pulling by the user.
• the Applicant has also developed in the French patent application 1058449 a wipe material dispensing apparatus comprising a fixing housing receiving a hinged lid for closing in lifting, the housing receiving a removably fixed module.
• This module is itself arranged with a flap disposed opposite the inner face of the cover, the strip of material passing between the flap and the inner wall of the cover.
• the central cuts formed on the lid and the shutter always have the same functions as indicated above.
• the Applicant has also developed an improvement for the passage of the web of material between the flap and the inner wall of the cover, a solution described and illustrated in French patent FR 1 161439.
• the housing forms a wiper material receptacle precut coil or in the pre-folded state.
• the lid is hinged relative to the housing.
• the flap is mounted between the side flanges of the housing. In the plane above said flap is disposed a return bar which is mounted free to rotate between the flanges of said housing to allow the return of the strip of material drawn between the flap and the inner face of the lid.
• the inner face of the cover and the apparent face facing the flap are arranged with pairs of grooves and ribs.
• the solution provided, according to this French patent FR 1 161439, aims at forming and arranging between the pair of grooves-grooves of smaller diameter and inside and the opening formed on the shutter and the cover for the passage of the material a zone d support in the shape of a crescent.
• the lower end portions of the groove-rib couples are arranged with protruding and recessed shapes formed transversely respectively on the ribs of the shutter and the cover and then in the grooves of the shutter and the cover.
• the flap and the cover are arranged at the end of the pairs of ribs and grooves with a thin flat transverse tab allowing the positioning and fixing on the receiving tab of a flexible strip of a material different and deformable.
• the strips have a configuration complementary to the ribs and grooves to ensure continuity with the latter.
• the height of the ribs is always constant.
• the central cutouts formed on the cover and the shutter always have the same functions as before.
• the flap and the cover in its configuration, have opposite a plurality of pairs of complementary shapes arranged in rainbow that may fit into each other after closure of the lid, said complementary shapes being corrugated shapes having, alternately, successive convex and hollow shapes thus avoiding any roughness or cutting area by one or more sharp edge (s).
• one of the corrugated shapes either on the flap or on the inner part of the cover, has transversely near its end a hollow cavity having a curvilinear profile or in a semicircle.
• said cavity is bordered by a corrugated end shape having the same curvature as the corrugations formed either on the flap or the inner part of the lid.
• Said corrugated end shape adjacent to the profiled hollow cavity constitutes, by its internal face, an abutment zone of the drawn material strip. All said wavy shapes have a regular shape. Furthermore, the central cutouts formed on the cover and the shutter always have the same functions as before. In practice, all previously explained solutions of the
• This new design even of the dispenser device allows it to have a compact configuration, simplified to the extreme, economic, with a perfect presentation of the strip of material output of said apparatus and also the format of the material to be taken .
• the distributor apparatus for pre-cut materials wound in a coil or folded in "Z" comprises a housing forming a receptacle with a bottom plate, a lower horizontal wall, vertical walls with a hinged cover at the base of the casing and being raised from above for its closure, the apparatus comprising a flap fixed relative to the side walls of the casing being positioned vertically, said flap having in its upper part a curvilinear configuration for the passage and guiding of the strip of pre-cut material said strip of material passing between said flap and said cover, said flap and said cover each having an identical central cut-out to allow the exit of the pre-cut material strip and its gripping, said dispensing apparatus being remarkable in that the shutter has around of the peripheral edge of said cut, an ay shape a curvilinear configuration around the periphery of the peripheral edge of said central cutout formed on the shutter being in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the flap, and in that said shape has a progressive differentiated height of its central part corresponding to the
• FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a pre-cut material dispensing apparatus arranged in a closed position, according to a first embodiment of the invention
• FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view of an apparatus for dispensing pre-cut material in an open position arranged according to the invention in said first implementation;
• FIG. 3 is a partial perspective view of the form disposed on the flap part according to the invention in the first implementation of embodiment.
• FIG. 4 is a partial schematic front view illustrating the positioning of the flap with said shape before bringing and closing the lid
• FIG. 5 is a partial view complementary to Figure 4 schematic front character illustrating the positioning of the flap with said shape after approximation and closure of the lid
• FIG. 6 is an alternative view of a second implementation of the invention, the shutter and the cover being arranged in a complementary manner with a first shape on the shutter and a counterform on the cover,
• FIG. 7 is a partial schematic view complementary to FIG. 6 illustrating the first form on the shutter and against the form on the cover
• FIGS. 8 and 9 are diagrammatic views illustrating the positioning of the first form on the shutter and the counterform on the lid before and after closing the lid.
• FIGS. 10 and 11 are views complementary to FIGS. and 9 in which the form and the counter-form are attached and fixed on the shutter and the cover,
• FIGS. 12 to 16 are schematic views for the purpose of explaining the mode of separation of a format of a strip of material in one of the implementations of the invention, the separation of the strip format material is carried out under conditions similar to those shown in said figures,
• FIG. 12 schematically represents the shape on the shutter and the counter-form on the cover before presentation of the strip of material
• FIG. 13 represents the strip of material as it appears before being grasped by the operator in order to draw a strip of material in order to obtain a material strip format
• FIG. 14 represents the beginning of tension of the strip of material, and the appearance of the precut line
• FIG. 15 illustrates the arrival of the precut line at the ends of the shape established on the shutter and the opening formation of partial separation between two successive formats
• FIG. 16 is a view illustrating the final separation of the drawn material strip format
• FIG. 17 is an alternative view of the second embodiment of the invention.
• FIG. 18 is a view illustrating the counter-form in profile view.
• the dispensing apparatus for pre-cut materials wound in a reel or folded in "Z" is referenced as a whole by (A).
• the pre-cut materials are for example wiping materials, paper, cellulose wadding. They can be non-woven materials.
• the apparatus comprises a housing (1) forming a receptacle with a bottom plate (1a), a lower horizontal wall (1b), side walls (1c) with a cover (2) articulated with respect to the housing by a lug assembly or axis (2a) with receiving hole, and this, well known manner.
• the strip of material is referenced by (B).
• the lid is raised from the top to close. It further comprises a flap (3) articulated with respect to the two side walls of the casing being detachably fastened by means of clipping pins or locating pins in receiving openings formed on the side walls. crankcase.
• the shutter is positioned vertically in its upper and transverse upper part, said shutter is arranged with a shape (3 a) constituting a material return bar with a curvilinear configuration for the passage and guiding of the strip of material from the receptacle portion of the housing.
• a shape (3 a) constituting a material return bar with a curvilinear configuration for the passage and guiding of the strip of material from the receptacle portion of the housing.
• the flap (3) is not arranged directly with the return bar but an independent return bar (4) is attached and fixed above said flap with the curvilinear shape described above.
• the flap In its lower part, the flap has a central cutout (3b) to allow the exit of the strip of material.
• the lid (2) has on its underside a central cutout (2b) identical and opposite the cutout (3b) of said shutter.
• At least the flap (3) has around its peripheral edge (3 c) a shape (3d) having a curvilinear configuration established around the periphery of the peripheral edge of the cutout (3b).
• Said form (3d) is established in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the flap projecting outside thereof to be opposite the closure lid.
• This form (3d) has a progressive differentiated height of its central portion (3dl) with a lower height corresponding to the upper part of the cutout (3b) and extending to its ends (3d2) with a height (h2 ) greater than said height (hl).
• Said form (3d) thus produced has, as a result, a ramp configuration whose function will appear thereafter.
• the ends (3d2) of the ramp protrude and come opposite the precut line of the web of material to allow transverse tear initiation to obtain a material web format. As shown in FIG. 5, said ends (3d2) project substantially beyond the outer apparent face of the cover. As an indication, the height (hl) is a few millimeters, about three to five millimeters, and the height (h2) at the ends (3d2) is of the order of six to fifteen millimeters.
• the edge of said ends (3d2) is either pointed or tapered and preferably rounded to prevent injury.
• edge of the shape can be arranged, molded or attached an elastomeric seal overlapping the edge to provide a function of braking of the material and allowing the stretching of the precut points on the precut line.
• the strip of material is between the flap and the cover by sliding on the form (3d) constituting ramp in a first step by the central part of low height (hl) then moves, by the traction by the user, along the form (3d) until reaching the ends (3d2) with the height (h2).
• the precut line of the web of material reaches said ends (3d2) of the shape (3d), which penetrate into the material and then allow complete transverse tearing of the web of material in a given format.
• the shape (3d) associated with the central cutout (3b) of the shutter gives it a new function, namely a cutting function.
• the central cut (3b) thus designed with the shape (3d) creates a "distributive opening" of the web of material. This is therefore a completely new design and different from the prior art recalled in the preamble of the present application.
• cover (2) can be made in combination with the aforementioned flap (3) according to different arrangements.
• the cover (2) has a smooth and flat inner face without additional means added around its central cutout (2b) which has the same configuration and shape as the cutout (3b) of the shutter (3). This is shown in FIG. 2.
• the strip of pre-cut material in particular in wiping material, is perfectly separated in format by the action of the form (3d) and its end portions (3d2).
• the cover (2) is arranged with a counter-shape (2c) disposed around the central opening (2b) directly molded or attached to the inner face of the cover.
• This counter-form (2c) may have a height (h3) regular and constant over its entire length.
• said against-shape (2c) surrounds the shape (3d) of said flap (3) while leaving a slight passage for the material strip.
• the counterform (2c) may be designed similarly to the form (3d) of the shutter. It has a progressive height of its central part (2c 1) at its ends (2c2) with respectively the heights (h3) and (h4). The height (h4) is greater than the height (h3).
• complementary end protrusions are obtained which are more particularly useful for dispensing thick wiping materials and nonwoven materials which are opposite ends (3d2) of the form (3d) after closing. lid.
• the form (3d) on the shutter, and the counterform (2c) on the lid are directly molded with them. This gives the appliance with only three or four components, the housing, the flap, the cover and the return bar if it is independent of the shutter, this without other parts and accessory components.
• the shape (3d) on the shutter (3) and the counterform (2c) can also be reported.
• the shape and the counter-form may be in the same material as the shutter and the cover or in a different material.
• the invention offers a new concept of dispensing apparatus of pre-cut material wound in a coil or folded in "Z". It grants a new function to the one or both opening (s) established (s) on the shutter and the cover, namely a cutting function of the material.
• this new arrangement of the apparatus allows the opening formed on the shutter and in the various variants in combination with the opening formed on the lid to provide four functions:
• the apparatus thus produced allows the distribution of all pre-cut flexible materials, paper wiping materials, nonwovens.

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