Folded product dispenser

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a folded product dispensing system and blank for making the same. The system is constructed from light-weight materials and includes a hanging means which enables positioning and repositioning of the dispenser in a variety of locations. The blank includes a pair of side flaps that support the dispenser, as well as an aperture forming flap.

Description

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application claims the benefit of U.S. provisional application Ser. No. 60 / 686,162 filed on Jun. 1, 2005, pending.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] The invention relates generally to a folded product dispenser. More particularly the invention relates to a folded product dispenser constructed from a blank that is easily folded into a three-dimensional configuration. [0003] Folded products are increasingly being used by consumers in a variety of locations other than the historical places such as bathrooms, kitchens, and stationary work areas. Consumers are multitasking due to increasingly complex lifestyles. As a result, consumers are in need of easily accessible products that historically have only been located within stationary locations such as kitchens, stationary work areas and bathrooms. Whether paper towels are used to clean a dirty surface, including the user's hands, or metal foil sheets are used to cover an orifice, consum...

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Benefits of technology

[0013] Advantageously, the folded product dispenser can be secured in any number intended or desired positions via, by way of example, a plurality of orifices, and from that position, used for storing and dispensing product from within the interior of the dispenser. The dispenser is constructed from a blank such that the dispenser includes an angled wall having a product dispenser opening formed therein. The angled wall facilitates dispensing by a user when the dispenser is in an intended product-dispensing position. The angled wall includes an interior side that can supports folded product. In a preferred embodiment, the product within the dispenser is positioned in folded, overlay relationship so as to facilitate dispensing of the product (i.e., when a single piece of folded product that is positioned for dispensing is pulled, so as to be dispensed, by a user, another piece of folded product is subsequently positioned for dispensing.

Problems solved by technology

Consumers are multitasking due to increasingly complex lifestyles.

Paper towel rolls can be convenient, mostly when used in conjunction with a paper towel roll dispenser, which can be cumbersome or inconvenient to install.

Paper towel rolls are not easily movable when used in conjunction with a traditional and permanent metal or plastic paper towel roll dispenser.

When placed on an end dispensing device the roll may be easily tipped, resulting in the roll being contaminated with undesirable substances such as liquid and solid contaminants, which could result in a substantial portion of the roll being unusable.

Often unwanted movement of the roll results in the roll coming in contact with undesirable substances such as liquid and solid contaminants, which could result in a substantial portion of the roll being unusable.

In one exemplary use, existing roll towel usage in the trucking industry is plagued with the product rolling around on the floor of the vehicle, being stepped on or absorbing moisture; and therefore, destroying the product.

When used as a facial tissue dispenser it is often found that forces needed to extract the facial tissue from the container are greater then the weight / resistance of the facial tissue dispensers, thereby requiring the use of the second hand to hold the carton in place to extract the facial tissue from the carton, therefore contaminating the dispenser surface.

It is often that traditional tissue dispensers require two hands to extract the tissue from the carton, therefore contaminating the dispenser surface.

Often it is the case that traditional folded product dispensers are not easily repositionable and are attached to the base surface with permanent fixtures such as screws or bolts making it impractical to reposition.

At times folded products may be needed by the user, but contamination occurs where the product cannot be dispensed through the use of only one hand.

Furthermore, it is often the case that folded product dispensers require a greater amount of force to extract the product than the gravitational forces exerted upon the dispenser.

This is often due to folded products which require a smaller amount of space for the same amount of product.

The dispensers attached to another object or wall in this manner are not intended to be easily repositioned.

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