STICK-ON, FLEXIBLE, PEEL AND SEAL PACKAGE DISPENSER

• US 20100012533A1
• Filed: 09/02/2009
• Published: 01/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Starliner, LLC
• Original Assignee: Starliner, LLC
• Inventors: Burgess, Mark H.
• Granted Patent: US 7,789,236 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 206/233
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2313/08 Double sided adhesive tape, e.g. for suspension of the container B65D2313/10 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 75/5838 combined with separate fixed tearing means, e.g. tabs
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 19/18 Attaching, e.g. pasting, the replacement web to the expiring web adhesive arrangements on leading end of replacement web, tabs and adhesive tapes for splicing B65H19/102
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 23/044 Sensing web tension B65H23/06, B65H23/18 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 206/806 Suspension
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 206/812 Packaged towel
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 206/813 Adhesive

Abstract

A stick-on, flexible peel and seal, wet wipes package includes a flexible package body having a front surface, a rear surface and an internal space sized to contain a plurality of removable wet wipes. An elongated opening extends through the package body to the internal space for accessing and permitting dispensing of the removable wet wipes. A substantially self-closing, resealable label flap is positioned on the front surface of the package body to cover the opening formed therein. The label flap has a bottom surface provided with a sealing adhesive that creates a seal entirely around the periphery of the opening and permits repeated application and removal of the label flap relative to the package body. The label flap further has a starting tab non-adhesively positionable in contact with the front surface of the package body. An adhesive layer structure is provided on the rear surface of the package body for adhering the package body to a support surface. A removable peel-off release layer structure covers and protects the adhesive layer structure prior to use thereof. The package body and the adhesive layer structure are removable from the support surface following emptying of the wet wipes from the package body.

Claims

1-19. -19. (canceled)

20. A flexible package dispenser for a plurality of removable articles, comprising:

a flexible package body having a front surface, a rear surface and an internal space sized to contain the plurality of removable articles;

an elongated opening extending through the package body to the internal space for accessing and permitting dispensing of the removable articles;

a closure positioned on the front surface of the package body to cover the opening formed therein, the closure having a longitudinal axis extending between a first end and a second end and sized to cover the opening in the package body, the closure having a bottom surface that forms a seal around the opening when in a closed position and permits repeated application and removal of the closure relative to the package body, the closure being removable from the package body along the longitudinal axis; and

at least a pair of spaced apart adhesive strips applied directly to the rear surface of the package body, the adhesive strips each extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of the closure, each of the adhesive strips being securable to a support structure to hold the package dispenser on the support structure.

21. The package dispenser of claim 20, wherein the adhesive strips are transparent to permit printed indicia on the package body to be read.

22. The package dispenser of claim 20, wherein the closure includes a starting tab non-adhesively positionable in contact with the front surface of the package body.

23. The package dispenser of claim 20, wherein the adhesive strips each include a double-sided, flexible substrate, the substrate having a first adhesive layer on one surface of the substrate adhered to the rear surface of the package body, and a second adhesive layer on an opposite surface of the substrate covered by a peel-off release layer structure, the second adhesive layers being securable to the support surface upon removal of the peel-off release layer structure.

24. The package dispenser of claim 20 wherein the package body further includes a rear heat seal extending along the rear surface of the package body from a top heat seal to a bottom heat seal, wherein the pair of adhesive strips are applied to the rear surface of the package body on opposite sides of the rear heat seal.

25. The package dispenser of claim 24 wherein each of the adhesive strips are located adjacent a sidewall of the package body.

26. The package dispenser of claim 20 wherein the removable articles are wet wipes.

27. The package dispenser of claim 20 wherein the flexible package body includes a hang hole.

28. The package dispenser of claim 24 wherein the flexible package body includes a hang hole formed in one of the top heat seal or the bottom heat seal.