Article dispensing – Concurrent separation and distortion of flexible article
Patent
1994-06-21
1996-05-21
Skaggs, H. Grant
Article dispensing
Concurrent separation and distortion of flexible article
428201, B65H 100
Patent
active
055181449
ABSTRACT:
A dispenser package including a stack of flexible sheets adhered together by layers of pressure sensitive adhesive with first and second ends of successive sheets in the stack adjacent; and an enclosure in which the stack of sheets is positioned having top wall portions with spaced opposed surfaces that define a wide slot. The first end portion of the uppermost sheet on the stack projects through the slot and rests against the adjacent first abutment surface. As that uppermost sheet is pulled through the slot, successive portions of it will peel away from the first underlying sheet in the stack until it contacts the second abutment surface, whereupon the first end portion of the first underlying sheet separates from the second underlying sheet, the first end portion of the first underlying sheet folds and moves through the slot with the second end portion of the uppermost sheet to leave, after the uppermost sheet is fully peeled from the first portion of the first underlying sheet, the first end portion of the first underlying sheet in a position projecting through the slot and resting against the second abutment surface in a position where it too may be grasped for manual removal in a similar manner.
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Blackwell Elmer
Callahan, Jr. Joseph P.
Darvell Wayne K.
Emmerling James R.
Groess Michael S.
Griswold Gary L.
Huebsch William L.
Kirn Walter N.
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
Skaggs H. Grant
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