US20130270292A1 - Dispensing system comprising holder and dispensing package - Google Patents

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US20130270292A1
US20130270292A1 US13/995,554 US201013995554A US2013270292A1 US 20130270292 A1 US20130270292 A1 US 20130270292A1 US 201013995554 A US201013995554 A US 201013995554A US 2013270292 A1 US2013270292 A1 US 2013270292A1
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    • 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
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    • A47K10/16—Paper towels; Toilet paper; Holders therefor
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    • 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
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    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B60R7/00—Stowing or holding appliances inside vehicle primarily intended for personal property smaller than suit-cases, e.g. travelling articles, or maps
    • B60R7/08—Disposition of racks, clips, holders, containers or the like for supporting specific articles
    • B60R7/084—Disposition of racks, clips, holders, containers or the like for supporting specific articles for supporting tissues or tissue boxes
    • 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
    • A47K10/16—Paper towels; Toilet paper; Holders therefor
    • A47K10/18—Holders; Receptacles
    • A47K10/20—Holders; Receptacles for piled sheets
    • 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
    • A47K10/426—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet-paper dispensing from a store of single sheets, e.g. stacked dispensing from the front or sides of the dispenser
    • 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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  • the invention relates to a dispensing system comprising a holder and a package of wipes.
  • the holder is adapted to hold the package and comprises means for attaching the holder to a surface such as a wall, a counter top a cupboard, a table, etc.
  • the package has front and rear surfaces with an opening for dispensing of the wipes being arranged in the front surface of the package.
  • the wipes may be wet or dry soft tissue sheets such as paper napkins or may be any other type of wet or dry wiping material such as household paper, toilet paper, facial tissue, handkerchiefs, napkins, industrial wipes, etc.
  • Wipes in the form of sheets of material intended for wiping and for hygienic purposes are common household items that may be provided in the form of stacks or rolls of wipes from which individual wipes can be readily removed when needed.
  • a dispensing system for the wipes should be inexpensive and easy to handle.
  • a common type of combined package and dispenser for wipes such as paper napkins is a rectangular cardboard box in which the wipes are arranged in a stack of interfolded sheets which can be removed from the box through a dispensing opening provided in the top surface of the box.
  • the dispensing opening is usually created just before the first wipe is to be removed from the box by tearing away a seal or removing a part of the top wall of the box along a pre-fabricated perforation line.
  • Interfolded wipes are sheets of material arranged in a stack of superposed sheets which are each folded at least once.
  • the sheets are interlinked in such a way that the separate folded sheets of material form a chain of sheets where each sheet has a leading panel and a trailing panel, the trailing panel being at least partly overlapped with the leading panel of the subsequent sheet in the stack.
  • the sheets may be dispensed from an opening in a container by pulling at the leading panel of the first sheet in the stack. In this manner, the first sheet is extracted at the same time as a predetermined part of the leading panel of a subsequent sheet is pulled through the dispensing opening into a dispensing position where it may subsequently be gripped and removed from the dispenser.
  • Holders for such packages are often outer containers or covers with a primary function of concealing the packaging box and enhancing its appearance. Another purpose of such containers is to add weight to the packaging box. When the container is stood on a horizontal surface, wipes may be removed from the box, without at the same time lifting the box from the surface.
  • such containers are generally made from relatively expensive materials and can only be used for one size of packaging box.
  • One object of the present disclosure is to provide a dispensing system comprising a holder that can be made at low cost and offer reliable retention of a package of wipes during dispensing of the wipes from any position such as when the dispensing system is arranged hanging on a horizontal or vertical surface or standing on a horizontal surface.
  • the dispensing system comprises a holder and a package of wipes, the holder being adapted to hold the package and comprising means for attaching the holder to a surface and having a front portion and a rear portion and side portions connecting the front and rear portions.
  • the package has a front wall with a dispensing opening, a rear wall opposite the front wall, two opposing side walls and two opposing end walls, wherein the side walls and the end walls connect the front and rear walls.
  • the front and rear walls have a length in a direction parallel with the side walls and a width in a direction perpendicular to the side walls.
  • the front portion of the holder comprises first and second holder parts which extend in a length direction of the holder and are spaced apart in a width direction of the holder so that a gap is formed between the holder parts.
  • the holder parts are resiliently movable between a holding position and a loading position, the gap being greater when the holder is in the loading position than when the holder is in the holding position.
  • the rear portion of the holder and the rear wall of the package comprise mating fastener means for attaching the package to the holder when the package is inserted in the holder between the holder parts and is arranged with the rear wall of the package in direct contact with the rear portion of the holder.
  • the wipes can be easily taken out of the holder using only one hand which is a great advantage as there is often a need to have a hand free for other purposes.
  • the holder parts When loading a dispensing package into the holder, the holder parts are manually moved apart to the loading position so that the package can be inserted into the holder through the widened gap between the holder parts. When the holder parts are released by the person loading the package into the holder, the resiliency in the holder parts will cause the holder parts to spring back to the holding position.
  • a rigid package may be manipulated into the gap with the rear wall first and pushed in towards the rear portion of the holder until the mating fastening means on the holder and the package engage with each other.
  • Another way of inserting the package which may be useful when the package has a relatively large width but smaller depth is to widen the gap enough to allow one side wall to be inserted into the gap and to be pushed beneath one of the holder parts as far towards the side portion of the holder as possible whereafter the gap is widened sufficiently to allow the opposite side wall to be slid down through the gap and into position in the holder.
  • the size of the gap is defined as the smallest distance between the opposing edges of holder parts.
  • the package may be made from any suitable material such as paper, plastic, cardboard, etc.
  • the physical form of the container may be a more or less rigid box or may be in the form of a flexible bag or wrapping.
  • the dispensing system according to the present disclosure may be used in any position such as on a table, on a countertop, on or in a cupboard, on a wall, or hanging from a horizontal surface such as a ceiling or the underside of a cupboard or shelf.
  • a problem with many previously known holders is that the package may fall or slide out of the holder when it is turned upside-down or placed in a vertical position.
  • This problem is solved by the holder of the present disclosure by the mating fastener means that prevent the package from sliding in the holder and the resiliently flexible holder parts that extend in over the front wall of the package when the holder is in the holding position and cooperate with the mating fastener means to prevent the package from falling out of the holder.
  • the simple snap-in mechanism of the holder allows a package to be quickly and easily inserted into the holder through the gap between the holder parts and removed again through the gap when the package is empty or when the user wishes to shift the package to a different location.
  • the packages in the dispensing system of the present disclosure are provided with a dispensing opening, they may be used in the conventional way as free-standing dispensers. Accordingly, the dispensing system of the present disclosure allows a package to be moved between differently placed holders or to be used both with and without the holder during the useful life of the package. Hence, a user may choose to leave the holder in place and only move the package.
  • the means for attaching the holder to a surface may be any type of attachment means such as hooks, screws, nails, suction caps, magnets, adhesive, etc.
  • the attachment means is preferably easy to attach, detach and reattach in a new location.
  • suction caps, magnets or reusable adhesive may be preferred attachment means when it is desirable that the holder can be easily shifted between different locations.
  • the surface available for placing dispensers for wipes is very limited.
  • a distance is created between the package and the surface on which the holder is mounted. This is advantageous particularly in dirty and wet environments, such as workshops, kitchens, bathrooms, etc.
  • the holder may have open end portions and a length that is smaller than the length of the package.
  • the end portions of the package protrude beyond the end portions of the holder such that the end walls of the package are located outside of the holder. In this way, the holder may be used with packages of different length.
  • the package may have any useful shape as known in the art such as pillow-shaped or cylindrical with an oval or circular cross-section.
  • a cylindrical package or a package having a polygonal cross-section other than rectangular or square cross-section has front and rear walls and side walls that lack clear demarcations implying that the rear wall will change into a side wall and then into the front wall when moving along the periphery of the package wall from the rear to the front of the package.
  • the side walls and/or the end walls may be completely degenerated such that they are constituted by a fold line or a join between the front wall and the rear wall. Such degenerated end walls and/or side walls may be found in packages of envelope type and in pillow-shaped packages.
  • the front wall of a package of the present disclosure comprises the area of the package where the dispensing opening is arranged.
  • the rear wall is opposite the front wall and the side walls and end walls are those portions of the package that connect the front wall with the rear wall.
  • the package may have a generally rectangular parallelepiped shape at least when in a fully loaded state.
  • the package will generally collapse and deform from the shape that it has when it is fully loaded.
  • a box made of a more rigid material such as cardboard or a less flexible plastic material will generally retain its shape even when it is completely empty unless it is exposed to excessive force such as when it is purposefully crushed to facilitate disposal.
  • the package may be a cardboard box.
  • the cardboard box may have any suitable shape that will fit in the holder. As stacks of sheet material for manufacturing reasons usually have rectangular shape, it may be preferred that at least the rear wall of the cardboard box that forms the base for the bottom surface of the stack has a rectangular shape to match the shape of the stack.
  • the package of the present disclosure may have a width that is smaller than the width of the rear portion of the holder, as long as the width of the front wall is greater than the width of the gap between the holder parts when the holder is in the holding position so that the package cannot fall out through the gap.
  • the package may be a soft package that is made from a flexible material such as plastic film, paper, nonwoven or a laminate of flexible material.
  • the package may be in the form of a bag or a wrapper enclosing the stack of wipes.
  • a soft package is compressible and will collapse and alter its shape as a result of wipes being removed from the package.
  • the holder may have a configuration when it is in a non-loaded rest position, the gap between the side portions of the holder having a smaller width in the rest position than in the holding position.
  • the holder parts When loading the package into the holder, the holder parts are manually moved apart to the loading position so that the package can be inserted in the holder through the gap between the holder parts.
  • the holder parts When the holder parts are released by the person loading the package into the holder, the holder parts will spring back to the holding position. In the holding position, the holder parts are still somewhat tensioned as they are hindered by the package from fully returning to the rest position. This implies that the holder parts will exert pressure on the package such that the package will be clamped in the width direction between the holder parts.
  • the side portions of the holder may be inwardly inclined from the rear portion of the holder towards the front portion of the holder in the rest position.
  • embodiments wherein the side portions of the holder are outwardly inclined from the rear portion of the holder towards the front portion of the holder in the rest position may also be used in a holder according to the present disclosure providing that the gap between the holder parts is smaller than the width of the package when the holder is in the holding position.
  • the mating fasteners may comprise at least one male part protruding on the inside of the holder from the rear portion of the holder toward the front portion of the holder and a corresponding female part arranged in the rear wall of the package.
  • the male part may be a spike, a needle, or similar having a pointed end that may penetrate the rear wall of the package when the package is pressed against the rear portion of the holder.
  • Male parts such as plugs or mushroom-shaped elements having a stem and an enlarged head portion are also conceivable.
  • the female part in the package may be a prefabricated hole or a weakening in the wall material such as a cut, a perforation or a thinned portion of the wall that will facilitate penetration of the package wall by the male fastener part on the holder.
  • a prefabricated female part may be preferred for ascertaining correct positioning of the package in the holder.
  • the fasteners may be configured to form a dust-tight seal between the male part and the female part. This may be accomplished, for instance, by making the female part in the package in the form of a precut opening comprising cuts radiating out from the centre of the opening and forming petals that will close the opening around the male part once the male part has been pressed through the opening.
  • Another way of obtaining a seal between the male part and the female part is by arranging a flexibly expandable cap on the male part. When the male part is inserted through the wall in the package, the flexible cap will expand and cover the hole in the package wall.
  • the seal between the mating fasteners may be made not only dust-tight but also liquid tight or at least resistant to liquid penetration. This may be an advantage if the dispensing system of the present disclosure is being used in a wet environment such as a kitchen or a bathroom where it may be exposed to inadvertent wetting.
  • the mating fasteners may be adhesive or hook-and-loop fasteners.
  • adhesive fasteners When adhesive fasteners are being used, the adhesive part will generally be on the package and the receiving surface for the adhesive will be on the holder.
  • hook-and-loop fasteners it will generally be preferred that the loop material such as nonwoven is arranged on the package and the hook material on holder.
  • the package When loading the package into the holder, the package is inserted into the holder perpendicular or generally perpendicular to the rear part of the holder, whereby the mating fasteners are pressed together, without the need for extensive manipulation or sideways sliding of the package in order to fasten the package in the holder.
  • the holder may comprise a bent metal wire.
  • the metal wire is preferably coated with a plastic or rubber coating. Apart from providing the holder with a tactilely and visually pleasing finish, a plastic or rubber coating may also be used to increase friction between the holder and the package.
  • the metal wire may form the complete holder including the rear portion, the front portion and connecting side portions.
  • the holder may alternatively be made from plastic material, for instance by moulding or from metal or combinations of plastic and metal such as a plastic frame comprising spring wire.
  • the holder of the present disclosure is light-weight and takes up a minimum of space. It can be easily manufactured by conventional methods and at a low cost.
  • the first and second parts of the front portion of the holder are inwardly inclined along the gap between the first and second parts.
  • the inwardly inclined first and second parts of the front portion of the holder may be arranged to exert pressure on the front wall of the package when the package is inserted in the holder and the holder is in the holding position. In this manner the friction between the package and the holder is increased, as well as the clamping function of the holder.
  • a friction material may be applied to a surface of the holder.
  • the friction material may be applied as a coating on a holder frame such as a wire frame or may be one or more separate elements fastened to the holder, such as friction tape, protrusions, hook material, rubber sleeves, etc.
  • the first and second parts of the front portion of the holder may have edge parts extending along the gap between the first and second parts, wherein the edge parts comprise abutment means arranged to contact the front wall of the package when the package is inserted in the holder and the holder is in the holding position.
  • the abutment means may be a ridge extending along each the edge part.
  • the ridge may be formed integrally with the holder or may be a separate element that is attached to a holder frame.
  • an integral ridge may be formed in a molding process, at the same time as forming the rest of the holder, while a ridge formed by a separate element may be attached to a preformed holder frame, such as a holder frame made from a bent metal wire or a bent metal plate.
  • the holder parts When referring to the holder material being resilient or flexibly resilient it is implied that the holder parts can be moved by hand at least from the holding position to the loading position and that the holder parts will spring back at least to the holding position when they are released after a package has been inserted between the holder parts.
  • the holder may have a rest position when no package is in the holder. The rest position may be different from the holding position.
  • the holding position may differ for the same holder depending on the size and shape of the package and the holding position may change when the holder is used for holding a flexible package as the package collapses during emptying.
  • the inside of a holder in accordance with the present disclosure is the side of the holder that will be facing the package when the package is inserted into the holder and the outside of the holder is the side of the holder that is facing away from the package when the package is inserted into the holder.
  • a holder frame as used herein is a holder blank to which fastening elements, coatings, etc. may be added.
  • the wipes may be any kind of wet or dry wipe such as household paper, napkins, disposable handkerchiefs, facial tissue, industrial wipes, toilet paper, etc.
  • the material may be a fibrous material of any suitable kind such as cellulose based paper material, with or without admixture of man-made fibres, binders and fillers.
  • the wipes may comprise only man-made fibres. However, it is usually desired that a wipe has some degree of absorbency or that it at least is wettable. If the fibrous material contains a large proportion of fibres of a hydrophobic character implying that the fibres are non-wettable by aqueous fluids, it may be suitable for wiping oily or greasy surfaces.
  • a hydrophobic material may be treated with a wetting agent in order to make it more hydrophilic.
  • the wipes may have any suitable shape and/or size and may be embossed, perforated, printed and dyed if desired.
  • the wipes may be single-ply sheets of material or may comprise two or more plies of the same or different materials.
  • the wipes may contain additives such as lotions, perfumes, detergents, liquids, etc. as known in the art.
  • the wipes may be in the form of a stack or a roll and may be discrete sheets of wiping material or a continuous web from which individual wipes may be separated.
  • a stack of wipes may consist of discrete sheets or of a continuous folded web, such as a zigzag folded web.
  • Discrete sheets of wiping material may be interlinked to form a continuous chain of wipes being held together by frictional forces. Such interlinked sheets are available in roll form or as a stack of interfolded sheets.
  • interfolded wipes are sheets of material arranged in a stack of superposed sheets.
  • the interfolded wipes are folded at least once in a first direction which is the interfolding direction to provide each wipe at least with a leading panel and a trailing panel.
  • the leading and trailing panels may be separated by one or more intermediate panels.
  • the leading panel and the trailing panel will be contiguous with the trailing panel following directly after the leading panel.
  • the wipes are arranged as a linked chain where each trailing panel of each napkin is connected by interfolding to the leading panel of the next napkin in the stack.
  • the wipes are interlinked by means of each trailing panel being at least partly overlapped with the leading panel of the subsequent wipe in the stack. In this manner, the individual sheets are held loosely together by means of frictional forces arising between the overlapping parts.
  • the wipes may be single ply or multi ply wipes and may be folded one or more times in a second direction perpendicular to the first, interfolding direction.
  • FIG. 1 shows a holder of the present disclosure in a rest position
  • FIG. 2 shows the holder in FIG. 1 in a loading position
  • FIG. 3 shows a package in the form of a rigid box for insertion into the holder of FIGS. 1 and 2 ;
  • FIG. 4 shows the package in FIG. 3 inserted into the holder in FIGS. 1 and 2 ;
  • FIG. 5 shows a holder of the present disclosure in a rest position
  • FIG. 6 shows a full package in the form of a soft wrapper inserted into the holder in FIG. 5 and placed on a vertical surface;
  • FIG. 7 shows the holder and package of FIG. 6 with the package in a partly emptied state
  • FIG. 8 shows a full package in the form of a soft wrapper inserted into the holder in FIG. 5 and placed on a horizontal surface;
  • FIG. 9 shows a holder of the present disclosure in the holding position
  • FIG. 10 shows a side view of a holder and rigid package of the present disclosure
  • FIG. 11 shows a side view of a holder and soft package of the present disclosure
  • FIGS. 12 a - e show different configurations of the front portion of a holder according to the present disclosure.
  • FIGS. 13 a - d show different configurations for male fasteners
  • FIGS. 14 a - c show different configurations for female fasteners.
  • the holder 1 shown in the Figs. comprises a holder frame 2 , which is made from a bent, flexible metal wire.
  • the flexible metal wire preferably has a sleeve or outer coating made from a plastic or rubber material.
  • the holder has a front portion 3 , a rear portion 4 and side portions 5 connecting said front and rear portions 3 , 4 in a height direction, H of the holder 1 .
  • the front portion 3 of the holder 1 consists of first and second holder parts 6 , 7 extending in a length direction, L, of the holder 1 and being spaced apart in a width direction, W, of the holder 1 with a gap, G, extending generally in the length direction, L, between the holder parts 6 , 7 .
  • the rear portion 4 is formed by two segments 8 of the holder frame that extend generally in the width direction, W, at a distance from each other in the length direction, L.
  • an element that extends generally in a particular direction may deviate somewhat from a completely straight line within at least a portion of the element or may be inclined by up to 40° from the general direction within all or a portion of the element.
  • This is illustrated in the holder in FIG. 1 by the first and second holder parts 6 , 7 that have slightly curved shape with front edge segments 9 extending generally in the length direction, L, and defining the width of the gap, G, and end edge segments 10 extending generally in the width direction, W, and being contiguous with the side portions 5 of the holder 1 .
  • the holder, 1 further comprises attachment means 11 for attaching the holder 1 to a surface such as a work bench, a wall, etc.
  • the attachment means 11 are provided on the outside of the rear portion 4 of the holder 1 and are shown in the form of four suction cups. Other types of attachment means may be used within the scope of the present disclosure, as set out herein.
  • Two attachment means 11 are shown on each segment 8 of the rear portion 4 of the holder 1 .
  • the number of attachment means may be fewer or more than those shown in the Figures.
  • fasteners 15 a of mating fastener means are arranged on the inside of the rear portion 4 and protrude from the rear portion 4 of the holder 1 toward the front portion of the holder 1 .
  • the fasteners are shown as spikes, having pointed ends designed to be inserted in prefabricated openings in a packaging wall or to create openings in the packaging wall when a package is placed in the holder.
  • other types or configurations of fasteners may be used for the holder in FIGS. 1 and 2 , as disclosed herein.
  • the holder 1 in FIG. 1 is shown in a rest position which means that no package is inserted in the holder and no forces except gravity act on the holder.
  • the rest position is the same as the holding position, at least when the holder 1 is used for holding a rigid package.
  • the holder parts 6 , 7 When loading a package 20 such as shown in FIG. 3 into the holder 1 , the holder parts 6 , 7 are manually moved apart to the loading position shown in FIG. 2 . so that the package 20 can be inserted into the holder through the widened gap, G, between the holder parts 6 , 7 . When the holder parts are released by the person loading the package into the holder, the resiliency in the holder parts 6 , 7 will cause the holder parts 6 , 7 to spring back to the holding position as is shown in FIG. 4 .
  • the package 20 that is shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 has rectangular parallelepiped shape with a front wall 21 having a dispensing opening 22 , a rear wall 23 opposite the front wall 21 , two opposing side walls 24 and two opposing end walls 26 .
  • the side walls 24 and the end walls 26 connect the front and rear walls 21 , 23 with each other to form the package 3 .
  • the front and rear walls 21 , 23 have a length, I, in a direction parallel with the side walls 24 and a width, w, in a direction perpendicular to the side walls 24 .
  • the package 20 in FIG. 3 is made of a relatively rigid material such as cardboard or plastic. Accordingly, the package 20 is intended to maintain its parallelepiped shape throughout its useful life.
  • FIG. 3 the package 20 is shown with the dispensing opening 22 covered by packaging material.
  • the contour of the opening 22 is marked by a perforation 28 in the front wall 21 of the package 20 .
  • the opening is uncovered by tearing away the packaging material inside the perforation 28 allowing a wipe 30 to be pulled out through the opening as is shown in FIG. 4 .
  • Other means of protecting the wipes before dispensing may be employed such as a removable protective wrapping enclosing the whole package or a protective tape that is removed to expose the opening.
  • the package of the present disclosure does not have to have a dispensing opening that is covered before use of the wipes in the package.
  • the package is further provided with four female parts 15 b of a mating fastener element.
  • the female parts 15 b of the fastener are arranged in the rear wall of the package 20 in locations corresponding to the locations of the male fastener parts 15 a on the holder 1 .
  • the female fastener parts 15 b are shown in FIG. 3 in the form of X-shaped cuts that will allow the male fastener parts 15 a to penetrate the package wall 23 .
  • Other kinds of female fastener parts such as precut openings, etc. are also conceivable within the scope of the present disclosure, as disclosed herein.
  • the first and second parts of the front portion of the holder 1 are resiliently movable to a loading position wherein the gap, G, is greater than the width, w, of the front and rear walls 21 , 23 , i.e. greater than the width, w, of the package 20 .
  • the expanded gap needs to be greater than the largest width of the package in order to allow the package to be inserted between the first and second holder parts.
  • the gap, G, between the holder parts 6 , 7 is smaller than the width of the front wall 21 of the package 20 in order for the package to be securely held inside the holder 1 .
  • the package 20 is inserted between the holder parts 6 , 7 , by moving the package generally perpendicular to the rear portion 4 of the holder 1 and pressing the rear wall 23 of the package 20 against the rear portion 4 of the holder 1 until the rear wall 23 of the package 20 is in direct contact with the rear portion 4 of the holder 1 . Insertion of the package in the holder 1 in this manner will automatically result in the mating fastener means 15 a, 15 b on the holder 1 and the package 20 engaging with each other so that the package becomes fastened inside the holder 1 and is prevented from sliding sideways in the length direction, L, of the holder.
  • the dispensing opening 22 is at least partially in register with the gap, G, between the holder parts 6 , 7 , so that a wipe 30 may be pulled out through the dispensing opening 22 in the gap, G.
  • the holder has an extension in the length direction, L, that is smaller than the length, t, of the package 20 and the holder 1 has open ends 31 , 32 , end portions 33 , 34 of the package 20 protrude beyond the ends 31 , 32 of the holder 1 when the package 20 is inserted in the holder 1 , as is shown in FIG. 4 .
  • the holder 1 may be used with packages 20 of different lengths.
  • FIGS. 5-8 show a dispensing system comprising a holder 1 and a package 20 that are slightly different from the holder 1 and package 20 of the dispensing system shown in FIGS. 1-4 .
  • the same reference numbers have been used for the dispensing system in FIGS. 5-7 .
  • FIG. 5 shows the empty holder 1 in a rest position with the first and second parts 6 , 7 of the front portion 3 of the holder 1 inwardly inclined along the gap, G, between the first and second parts 6 , 7 .
  • the inwardly inclined first and second parts of the front portion of the holder are arranged to exert pressure on the front wall 21 of the package 20 when the package 20 is inserted in the holder 1 and the holder 1 is in a holding position, as shown in FIGS. 6-8 .
  • the package 20 that is shown in FIGS. 6-8 is a soft package made of a flexible wrapper as herein disclosed.
  • FIG. 6 shows the package 20 when it is filled with wipes 30 and placed in the holder 1 with the male parts 15 a of the mating fastener engaged with corresponding female parts (not shown) in the rear wall 23 of the package 20 .
  • the package 20 When filled with wipes 30 , the package 20 has a generally rectangular parallelepiped shape. However, when the package 20 is inserted into the holder 1 , the first and second parts 6 , 7 of the front portion 3 of the holder 1 are raised to a holding position where they lie generally in the same plane as the front wall 21 of the full package 20 . As an effect of the holder 1 striving to return to the rest position shown in FIG. 5 , the first and second parts 6 , 7 of the front portion 3 of the holder are pressing down on the front wall 21 of the package 20 , causing the soft package 20 to be squeezed and slightly deformed by the holder 1 .
  • FIG. 7 shows the holder 1 and package 20 in FIG. 6 after most of the wipes 30 have been removed from the package 20 through the dispensing opening 22 in the front wall 21 of the package 20 .
  • the holder 1 has assumed a new holding position with the first and second parts 6 , 7 having returned to the rest position and the package 20 being collapsed towards the rear portion 4 of the holder 1 .
  • the first and second parts 6 , 7 move from the holding position in FIG. 6 to the holding position in FIG. 7 .
  • FIGS. 4 , 6 and 7 the holder 1 with the package 20 is shown mounted on a vertical surface such as a wall.
  • FIG. 8 shows the holder 1 with the package 20 mounted on a horizontal surface. It is to be understood that the holder/package may be mounted on a surface in other ways than those shown in the Figs. By way of example a wall mounted holder may be arranged such that the dispensing opening extends vertically or at an angle to the vertical direction of the wall.
  • elongate dispensing openings are usually preferred in packages for stacked wipes such as interfolded wipes
  • the present disclosure is not limited to packages having such dispensing openings. Accordingly, shapes such as circular, oval, square, triangular, rectangular, etc. may be used without departing from the present disclosure.
  • FIG. 9 shows a package 20 which is inserted into a holder 1 that is made from a bent metal plate or molded plastic material.
  • the package may be a rigid package or a soft, flexible package, as disclosed herein.
  • FIG. 10 shows a package 20 inserted into a holder 1 , seen from an end 31 of the holder and with an end wall 26 of the package 20 facing the viewer.
  • the holder 1 is provided with attachment means 11 for attaching the holder to a surface.
  • the attachment means are exemplified in FIG. 10 by magnets.
  • FIG. 10 illustrates that the holder 1 may have inclined side portions 5 and that the width of the holder 1 may be greater than the width, w, of the package 20 as long as the gap, G, between the first and second parts 6 , 7 of the front portion 3 of the holder 1 is smaller than the width of the package 20 when the holder is in a holding position.
  • the holder in FIG. 10 is further shown to have inwardly inclined first and second parts 6 , 7 of the front portion 3 and having friction means 35 arranged at the inner edges, of the first and second parts 6 , 7 .
  • the inner edges of the first and second parts 6 , 7 are the edges extending along the gap, G.
  • the friction means may be an added friction material such as rubber, friction adhesive nonwoven, etc. or may be a surface on the holder frame that has been modified to increase friction, for instance by roughening the surface.
  • FIG. 11 is a similar view to that in FIG. 10 and shows a holder 1 , having abutment means 36 in the form of raised ridges arranged at the inner edges of the first and second parts 6 , 7 of the front portion 3 .
  • Such raised ridges may be formed by an added material or may be an integrally formed part of the holder 1 .
  • the abutment means 36 need not be a continuous ridge, but may be in the form of one or more discrete protrusions at the inner edges of the first and second parts 6 , 7 of the front portion 2 of the holder 1 .
  • the abutment means 36 may have friction enhancing properties.
  • FIG. 11 further illustrates that the mating fasteners of the dispensing system according to the present disclosure may be different from those shown in FIGS. 1-8 .
  • the mating fastener is a hook-and-loop fastener with a male part 15 a in the form of a hook material arranged on the rear portion 4 of the holder 1 and a female part 15 b in the form of loop material, such as nonwoven, arranged on the rear wall 23 of the package 20 .
  • FIGS. 12 a - 12 e show different holder/package configurations and are intended to illustrate that the shape of the front portion 3 of the holder 1 as well as the shape of the dispensing opening 22 and the package 20 may be varied within the scope of the present disclosure.
  • FIGS. 13 a - 13 d show different configurations for male parts 15 a of a mating fastener and FIGS. 14 a - 14 b show different configurations for female parts 15 b of a mating fastener.
  • FIG. 13 a shows a mushroom-shaped male part 15 a with a stem 41 and an enlarged head portion 42 .
  • the enlarged head portion will temporarily widen the opening in the female fastener part 15 b as it passes through the package wall but will then act as a retaining means once the head portion 42 is inside of the package wall 23 .
  • the male part 15 a that is shown in FIG. 13 b has the shape of a plug with retaining ridges 43 .
  • the male part 15 a in FIG. 13 c has a rigid inner spike 44 and an outer flexible shroud 45 that can fall back on the inside of the package wall 23 and aid in creating a dust-tight seal around the male part 15 a.
  • FIG. 13 d illustrates that the male fastener part 15 a may have a sharp pointed end. If the male part 15 a in FIG. 13 d is made in a hard material such as metal, it may be used to create the female fastener part 15 b in the package wall 23 .
  • the male parts may be made from metal, plastic, rubber or combinations of such materials.
  • the male part may have an inner metal core and an outer plastic or rubber coating. At least a part of the male part needs to have sufficient rigidity to allow the male fastener part to be inserted in a corresponding female fastener part.
  • the female part 15 b that is shown in FIG. 14 a is made up of crossing slits 46 forming flaps 47 between them.
  • the flaps 47 will bend out of the plane of the package wall 23 and allow the male part 15 a to be inserted through the wall 23 .
  • the flaps 47 will then fall back into a sealing position against the male part 15 a.
  • FIG. 14 b shows a female part 15 b comprising an opening 48 and peripheral slits 46 radiating from the opening.
  • FIG. 14 c shows a female part 15 b comprising a central opening 48 and a peripheral weakened area 49 surrounding the opening 48 .

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