US1270248A - Paper-package. - Google Patents

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W. McCORKINDALE & H. C. AVERY.

PAPER PACKAGE.

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1,370,248. Patented June 18, 191&

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WILLIAM MOCORKINDALE AND HENRY C. AVERY, 0F HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS.

PAPER-PACKAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 18, 1918.

Application filed January 8, 1916. Serial No. 70,943.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM MoConn INDALE and HENRY C. AVERY, citizens of the United States of America, residing in the city of Holyoke, county of Hampden, and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper-Packages, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in packages of paper, towels and the like and particularly to an improved form of package adapted to cooperate in an efficient manner with a single special form of dispenser such as is disclosed in U. S. Letters Patent No. 1,185,813, issued June 6, 1916.

Manufacturers of paper towels, and the like, ordinarily supply dispensing devices containing their trademark under the assumption that the paper used in the dispenser or container will be invariably of their own make. It has been found in practice, however, that after one manufacturer has placed on the market thousands of dispensers at cost or less, another manufacturer makes a package which will fit these dispensers and sells at a cut price because a large and ready market is available wherever dispensers are installed.

Applicants disclose herein an improved form of package which is adapted for use with an improved form of dispenser, which is also disclosed herein but particularly claimed in the above noted patent. The package and dispenser are mutually dependent, as the package is made for use with the dispenser alone and the latter is made to re ceive only the improved form of package. By thus combining the dependent features of both the dispenser and package, the desired result is obtained, of 1nsuring the use of one brand of paper in the dispenser. The manufacturer is, therefore, enabled to build up his trade on a safe basis, without the continual annoyance of unfair competition from other manufacturers. Aside from the advantages of the invention noted above, there are inherent advantages in the structure.

An object of the invention is to provide an improved and specially formed package which may only be inserted in a single specially formed type of dispenser.

Another object is to provide an improved form of package which is of extreme simplieity and is arranged to cooperate in an efiicient manner with its dispenser.

Other detailed objects of the invention Wlll appear in the following description and annexed claims.

Referring to the, drawings as illustrating one manner in which the invention may be carried out- Figure 1 is a front view of the dispenser with a part broken away to show the improved package assembled in position for operation.

Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view taken on the lines 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view of a modified form of the dispenser.

Fig. 4 is a detail view showin one manner of holding together the special package of sheets.

Fig. 5 is another form of the same.

Fig. 6 is another form, and

Fig. 7 is still another form of holding the package.

The invention is, as shown, arranged for use with a special container or casing called the dispenser, which may, if desired, be. entirely closed except at one end. In this dispenser it is not necessary to have any other opening than the end opening mentioned. In other words, the dispenser may be made with all of its walls fastened together permanently. The open end of the dispenser is of a suitable size to receive the package of sheets when the latter is in serted directly therein. In the dispenser means are provided to cooperate with suitable devices contained on the package to receive and hold the latter in position after it has once been inserted in such a manner that it cannot be ordinarily removed from the dispenser after it has once been inserted. The engagement of the means within the dispenser with the devices on the package is designed to occur in an automatic manner, so that no knowledge of the detailed operation of the dispenser is necessary. After the sheets have been pulled from the package one by one until the package has been exhausted, then it is possible to loosen the holding devices of the package in the dispenser and insert a new package. The invention as outlined may be carried out in various forms.

The preferred form is disclosed in Figs. 1, 2 and 4. Referring to Fig. 2, the dispenser comprises, as shown, a rectangular closed casing a open at the bottom only. The walls of this casing are preferably fastened together permanently. At some distance from the bottom of the casing and preferably about midway of thefro'nt and rear'walls and arranged centrally are two metal-brackets each made up of two V-shaped spaced vertical walls 1), connected by the slanting wall 0, with the points of the V extending downwardly. These brackets, as shown, are soldered one on the front wall and one on the rear, in the position approximately as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. This is all there is to the dispenser and it is seen that'itis of extreme simplicity and extremely-economical to manufacture.

Referring now to thespecial form of package with which this-applicationis more directly concerned, it maybe said. that the package is generally like that"disclosed"in patent to Teall 1,131,874t dated March 16, 1915. This package: comprises initsipreferred form a stiffening cardboard center f around which a pack ofassemble'd sheets is folded. These sheets arepasted'oneto the other in the s0 called'drop "formation. The ends of the pack arebroughttogether as disclosed in Figs. 2 and L and are provided with two vertical cuts 9 (see Fig. 1). These cuts are spacedapa'rt, as shown, and'jprovide a plane of weakness for the sheets to be torn from the pack as the ends areheldby the holding strip fi. Strip 1', made'of pliable metal, is looped,'one strip through each end and over the top of'the pack. The' endsof each strip are bent into overlapping relation against the upper end of'the stiffening piece f. These strips project beyond the sides of the 'packasshown at 7: for a purpose to be described.

With the package formed 1 as shown and described itis'inse'rted'in the dispenser "by directlypushing-its upper end in thejopen end of the casing a. The projections is, of metal strips 2', one on the front-and onegon the rear sides of-thejpackage, engage the sloping walls 0 of the-brackets above mentioned, which force the upper end of the package tightly together as it is'jpushed upwardly in the container. As soon as "the projections leave the upper end of the sloping wall 0 the compression just mentioned causes the projections 70 to spring outwardly. If the package is then released, it will settle down into thevposition shown in Fig, 2, so that the projections 70 extend "in overlapping relation to the upper sloping walls 0 andbetween the V-sh-aped walls?) of thedispenser brackets. Inthis positionit is 1 impossible for fany one to reach their hand up inside of the casing and release the package from the brackets. The engagement of thedeviceslc of the paekageiwith the means-0 of the; dispenser as described is automatic. A single sheet 6 may be .pulled from the package in themanner customary with drop down sheet'packages, and will hausted at which time it is possible to insert ones hand in the casing, pull'the holding or binding device or strips 2' away from the brackets and out of the casing for the next package to be inserted.

It will thus be seen that anext'remely simple and economical dispenser for the type of package disclosed 'is'pro'vided which has the advantage-that'a special form ofpackage is required "and thus the "insertion I of foreignjpackages prevented. It will also be seen that the means'for fastening the package in the dispenser is autOmatic-a'n'deX- tremely simple, and constitutes anew and useful device.

I11'Figf3 a modified form o'fthe dispenser is shown. The casing l corresponds to-the casing a, shown inFig. 2. Instead of providing'the brackets,-asshown in Fig. 2 in this modification, the springs 2 sloping upwardly from the front and rear walls ofthe dispenser are provided. When a vpackage 's'uch'as shown in either of Figs. t'to 7 is insejrted in the casing 1, the springs '2 will be bent "backwardly against the walls of the casing until the projections [care above'the level of the top of the springs, at whichti-me thelatter will'move backtowa'rd the positionshown in Fig. 3 and'e'ngage under the projections ic tohold the package in the manner-similar to that described, in connection with "Fig. 2. Whe'rethe springs 2 yield, to allow the package to be inserted inthe'ca'sing it is not necessary. for the package to be compressed to any considerable extent. Where crape tissue paper is used; the package isvery easilycom'pressedand has 'considerabl'e resiliency so that it'will o 'erate eificiently with the'casing assho'wnin ig 2.

In Fig. 5, a modified 'fo'rm of holding means for the ends of thesheets is shown. In this form a single'metal wire'm isthreaded through bothends of thelpacka'ge and the endso'f'this metal wire are brought together at the upper end of'the package and twisted as shownat n. Bound overthe top of the packagein a V-s'haped form is a metal strip Z having projections fs corresponding to theprojectionsic shown in Fig.4. This V-shaped metal strip Z is held in place by means'of the wire im which passesth'rough the 'fstrip and'o'ver the 'top the'reofya's indicated in t'he figure. I a} In Fig. 6 "another 'niodificationiis -slrown, in which a met l strip a is threaded through holes at both ends'of the pac'kagean'd is provided with projections 11 c'orrespondingto projections '70. At the lowere'ndsofthis strip a thereare holes through which a ta'pet is passed and brought up overthe ends of the package. There is one tape on each side of the package and both are tied into a knot at This tape and the manner of its connection with the strip it tends to force the strip apart. This increases the tendency for the projections 41 to enter over the ends of the walls 0 or the springs 2.

In Fig. 7, still another modification is shown, which is essentially similar to the one disclosed in Fig. 4 with this difference, that instead of the ends of the strips 0 which in Fig. 4: have their equivalent in the strips i, being bent as disclosed at 7' in Fig. 4 they are brought into parallel relation against the stiffening strip 7 and a rivet p is passed through the ends to bind them together. The projections 9 correspond to the projections la in every way.

It is recognized that many other modifications of the package may be made and that the various forms of packages embodying the invention may be constructed and applied to various forms of dispensers. The scope of the invention is, therefore, defined more accurately in the following claims than in the detailed description of one or more preferred forms.

What we claim is:

1. A package of towels formed to closely fit within a casing having a single opening and arranged when inserted to close said opening and yieldable holding devices on the package arranged when the package is pushed into the casing to automatically snap into engagement with devices within the easing to support the package therein.

2. A package of towels or the like adapted to substantially fill an open ended casing and means on the package automatically movable relatively thereto by the insertion of the package in said casing, and thereafter automatically movable in an opposite direction to engage parts of the latter and support the package so that it cannot be removed until substantially consumed.

A package of towels or the like adapted to substantially fill a container and having means thereon compressible by parts of the casing as the package is inserted therein and thereafter expansible on further insertion of the package to spread into supporting engagement with said parts.

4. A package of towels adapted to substantially fill a container and having movable means on opposite sides of the package and automatically operable as the package is pushed into the container to spring into supporting engagement therewith, said means constructed and arranged to prevent removal of the package until it is substantially used up.

5. A towel package, for use with a dispenser having a single open end, made to substantially fill the dispenser and when in serted therein to close said open end, and means on the package operable as the latter is inserted in the dispenser to automatically engage a part thereof, said means and part being relatively movable in one direction by the insertion of the package in another direction and relatively movable in an opposite direction after the package has been positioned in the dispenser to prevent removal of the package from the latter.

6. A towel package comprising a plurality of sheets packed one on the other, a supporting member from which the upper ends of the sheets are hung and projections extending downwardly from said member beyond the sides of the package arranged to automatically engage supporting members in a dispenser.

7. A towel package comprising a plurality of sheets packed one on the other, a supporting member from which the upper ends of the sheets are hung and projections extending downwardly in diverging relation from said member beyond the sides of the package to automatically engage supporting devices on the casing, said projections and member being constructed and arranged to yield as the package is moved past said devices in one direction and to snap past the latter to prevent movement of the package in the other direction.

8. A package of towels made to substantially fill a container, comprising, a plurality of sheets packed one on the other, and supporting means for said sheets including projections extending downwardly beyond and in inclined relation to the sides of the package, said projections constructed and arranged to automatically engage with a part of the container when the package is inserted therein and to grip said part to prevent removal of the package from the container.

WILLIAM MCCORKINDALE. HENRY C. AVERY.

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Washington, I). G.

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