Article dispensing – Concurrent separation and distortion of flexible article – With casing or support
Patent
1990-05-04
1992-11-24
Bollinger, David H.
Article dispensing
Concurrent separation and distortion of flexible article
With casing or support
221 45, 221 52, B65H 104
Patent
active
051655705
ABSTRACT:
A dispenser for paper sheets from a stack comprising a plurality of the sheets disposed one on top of another, each sheet having a band of pressure sensitive adhesive coated on one surface adjacent one edge thereof and being free of adhesive coating along a portion adjacent an opposite edge thereof, and the sheets being stacked with the adhesive coating on each successive sheet disposed along alternate opposite sides of the stack and releasably adhering the sheets together to maintain the sheets in the stack. The dispenser has surfaces defining a cavity adapted to receive the stack including opposed end surfaces adapted to be engaged by the opposite sides of the stack, and two spaced friction surface portions extending generally toward each other from the upper ends of the end surfaces which are generally arcuate and concave about an axis parallel to the upper ends of the end surfaces. The dispenser arcs the stack and presses it toward the friction surface portions to afford positioning the uppermost sheets of the stack along the friction surface portions with the adhesive free portion of the uppermost sheet in the stack projecting through the opening so that by grasping that end portion the uppermost sheet on the stack can be manually pulled through the opening and will carry with it the adhesive free end portion of the sheet beneath it in the stack to which the uppermost sheet is adhered by the adhesive coating, placing that adhesive free end portion in a position where it also may be grasped and pulled to withdraw the next sheet from the stack.
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Kirchhoff Kenneth J.
Windorski David C.
Bollinger David H.
Griswold Gary L.
Huebsch William L.
Kirn Walter N.
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
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