Dispensers with optional support or attachment means
US5794815A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 19, 1996 |
| Grant date | Aug 18, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 19, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65H2402/411
- WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
An assembly including a dispenser for flexible sheets from a stack, which dispenser has manually separable top and bottom portions defining a cavity therebetween adapted to receive the stack so that the uppermost sheet in the stack can be manually pulled through an opening in the top wall. The assembly can further include one or more of (1) a support member having opposed hook-like distal end portions extending through openings in and engaging the dispensers bottom wall, which support member has finger engagement surfaces shaped to engage adjacent side surfaces of a user's fingers and includes a narrow web like portion between the finger engagement surfaces adapted to comfortably extend between the fingers of a user positioned along the finger engagement surfaces, and includes a retainer portion wider than the web like portion adapted to be positioned along the inner surfaces of a user's fingers that can be releasably engaged with a weighted base to support the support member and dispenser on the base; (2) a resiliently elastic strap having hook-like members fixed to its opposite ends adapted to engage the bottom wall to support the dispenser on a users hand; and (3) weighted and u…
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