Sheet dispenser
US4993590A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 26, 1989 |
| Grant date | Feb 19, 1991 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 26, 2009 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB42D5/005
- WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
A dispenser for a stack of partially adhesive coated sheets stacked with the adhesive coating on each successive sheet disposed along alternate opposite sides of the stack and releasbly adhering the sheets together. The dispenser has a cavity adapted to receive the stack defined by surfaces including opposed upwardly diverging end surfaces spaced apart to arc the stack positioned with its sides against the end surfaces and to position a top surface of the stack along arcuate upper inner friction surface portions of the dispenser with an end portion of the uppermost sheet in the stack projecting through an opening between those inner surface portions. The uppermost sheet on the stack can be manually withdrawn through the opening and will carry with it the end portion of the sheet beneath it in the stack, the opposed upwardly diverging end surfaces between which the stack is arched will cause movement of the sides of the stack along the end surfaces toward the upper surface portions of the stack in response to forces applied to the stack of sequentially remove sheets from the stack through the opening, and the friction surface portions will insure that only one sheet is pulled from t…
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