Abstract:
A dispenser for a roll of strip comprising a casing in which is disposed a roll of strip. Pivotally connected to the casing is a cover. At the strip exit opening is a passage through which advances the free end of the roll of strip. Disposed in the passage for the advancing free end of the roll of strip is an upwardly extending indexing member. The indexing member is formed with a tip having oppositely sloping sections. The roll of strip is formed with diagonal slits. The diagonal slits are alternately, oppositely directed. The indexing member penetrates each slit successively through the alternately penetrable sections of the top of the indexing member. An operator applying a downward force to the free end of the roll of strip severs the free end thereof successively along each successive slit by means of sharp edges at the base of the indexing member.
Abstract:
A wet tissue container wherein a length of tissue strip is drawn from a roll of tissue immersed partly in and moistened with a suitable liquid through a fine diameter tissue drawing hole formed through a wet tissue drawing member made of a material having high elasticity.
Abstract:
Towelette dispenser and vapor impervious pouch containing a roll or web of absorbent material, such as non-woven fibrous towelettes pre-moistened with a chemical-containing aqueous or other fluid solution. The pouch is sealed before use to prevent the loss of moisture from the pre-moistened towelette roll and is opened at the point of, and at the time of, first use. A double lid is adapted to provide moisture seal between usages of the pre-moistened towelette, while reducing dehydration of the opened towelette pouch within the dispenser. Feed slit adaptations in the lid provide for selective tearability of individual towelette portions from the roll. The dispenser is adapted to provide a low center of gravity, and the base of the dispenser can cooperatingly engage a wall-type holder. The towelette roll contains a leader adapted for ease of feeding through the feed slot upon first use. The web may be folded parallel to the longitudinal axis to provide larger towelettes and improve ease of withdrawal from the dispenser.
Abstract:
A method of severing useful lengths connected together by small fillets in a sheet of paper, pasteboard or the like, comprises applying the sheets on to a substantially non-flexible support having a contact surface of a first coefficient of friction, and then exerting on adjacent useful lengths, through forces which act in opposite directions tangentially on said adjacent useful lengths with a contact pressure by way of a second coefficient of friction exceeding the value of said first coefficient of friction, a splaying movement sufficient to destroy the fillets. Apparatus for carrying out the method may comprise a press, pressure fingers disposed at both sides of the longitudinal axis of said press, and contact surfaces having said comparatively high second coefficient of friction and at the free ends of said pressure fingers, said contact surfaces being intended for application to the useful lengths to be severed. The pressure fingers may be adapted to be moved away from one another in a plane substantially perpendicular to the principal plane of said useful lengths and the plane of separation between said useful lengths, a spring counteracting said movement of said pressure fingers as a function of downward movement of said press with increase of the spacing between the contact surfaces. Alternatively, there may be means for applying an additional and external force independent of the force applying the press to said useful lengths, said additional force being displaceable in a direction substantially tangential to the principal plane of said useful lengths.
Abstract:
Dispensing devices employed in a bulk package of substantially wet sheets include a substantially flat section having an opening through which successive sheets are adapted to be individually dispensed. The opening includes curved surfaces which are substantially free of sharp angles and bends to provide spaced lobes. Hingedly connected flexible flaps are normally disposed within the spaced lobes in substantially the same plane as the flat section, and the flaps have substantially curved outer margins which are closely positioned to curved surfaces providing the lobes to form restricting channels into which successive sheets are directed during sheet dispensing. Bulk packages including the above-described dispensing device also form a part of this invention.
Abstract:
A yarn stop-motion device for use with a yarn-processing apparatus comprising yarn break-detector means and yarn-severing means positioned close to each other and preferably combined in a single unit. This device is characterized in that the point at which the yarn break is detected by the device and the point at which the yarn is severed by the device are both positioned above or on the same side of the yarn-processing apparatus associated with the device.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a method of tearing sections from a continuous web of fibers without causing compression of the fibers at the severance line by grasping the web at spaced portions adjacent to the tearing area, and moving one portion relative to the other portion to stress and tear the web. An apparatus for accomplishing the tearing includes two juxtaposed pairs of jaws, or the like, which receive and engage an intermittently advanced web. One pair of jaws is then displaced from the juxtaposed position to stress and tear the web. The stressing and tearing action substantially eliminates any densified layer or thickened portions between the ends of the section and the engagement line while the engagement of the web creates a transverse densified line near the ends of the sections.
Abstract:
A dispenser for a treated perforated tissue web wherein said dispenser is provided with an opening for extraction of the web from the dispenser, said opening having associated therewith an interior flap which normally all but closes the opening through which the web is withdrawn thereby providing sufficient tension on the web to cause it to tear off at the perforations. A variation includes a form in which the flap is such that it completely closes and overlaps the opening in the dispenser forcing the web to travel in a tortuous path.
Abstract:
A packaging machine and method for automatic or semi-automatic operation with a bag sealing station provided laterally rearwardly of a bag loading station. A web of interconnected heat-sealable bags are successively fed to the bag loading station. The loaded bag is moved rearwardly to the sealing station and is there clamped against a heater bar by a movable sealing bar. Automatic bag packaging is accomplished by providing a pivotally mounted sealing and detaching assembly which tears the loaded bag from the web during the sealing operation. Heat sealing is accomplished concurrently with separation of the loaded bag from the web. A toothed gripper bar engages the web above the seal to prevent separation of the web in the region of the seal and to assure separation along a preformed line of weakness spaced from the seal. As the sealing bar is released from its clamping position, the web is advanced to move a successive bag into the bag loading position. Semi-automatic bag packaging is accomplished by manually tearing the loaded bag from the web and manually inserting the bag in the sealing station. In semi-automatic operation the web is fed to advance a successive bag to the bag loading position concurrently with the sealing of a bag in the sealing position.
Abstract:
A dispenser for containing a continuous web of connected sheets joined in end to end relationship along a scored or frangible line which can be either randomly stuffed or folded in the body of the dispenser so that essentially the entire volume of the dispenser body is initially occupied with the continuous web of material. The top of the dispenser is provided with a dispensing opening through which the sheets are individually dispensed, one at a time. The opening is defined as a slit or slot associated with a resilient flap which frictionally bears on the sheets being dispensed through the opening so that the endmost sheet is automatically separated along the score line between adjacent sheets as the sheet is pulled through the opening and whereby the sheet following the endmost sheet which is separated is placed in position to be externally grasped by the user for subsequently dispensing the sheet.