Dispenser package

• US 3,948,455 A
• Filed: 11/13/1974
• Issued: 04/06/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: 3M Company
• Original Assignee: 3M Company
• Inventors: Schwartz, Richard J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Christian, Leonard D.
• Application Number:
  US05/523,428
• Time in Patent Office: 510 Days
• Field of Search: 242/55.3, 242/55.53, 206/389, 206/391, 206/394, 206/422, 229/2.5, 220/337
• US Class Current: 242/594.2
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/0847 through an aperture at the junction of two walls

Abstract

An esthetic dispenser package for shipping, displaying and dispensing convolutely wound rolls of ribbon material, which package permits the visible inspection of the ribbon as to quantity and color and the controlled dispensing during use. The package contains a plurality of hexagonally-shaped chambers formed in a pair of hinged shells in which the wound ribbon may be placed, the rolls of ribbon being wound without a core.

Claims

1. A ribbon dispenser package for convolutely wound decorative ribbon products comprising

a one piece molded article defining a pair of mating shells which form a plurality of axially spaced chambers when folded on a centerline, each chamber having a convolutely wound roll of ribbon disposed therein and said article having opposed planar surface portions to engage opposite surfaces of the ribbon at an end of each roll, each said shell comprising

generally planar spaced outer wall members disposed in three planes, each wall member extending in a transverse direction to the package, and said planes being at an angular orientation to each other, and a flange having said planar surface portions extending along one edge of the shell lengthwise, said wall members having a width slightly greater than the axial width of a roll of said ribbon, said wall members forming part of one roll chamber being separated from the wall members forming another axially spaced roll chamber by integral radially extending partitions projecting into the shell to engage the edges of a roll of ribbon, and

means formed in said flange of each shell cooperating with means in the other shell for holding said shells together adjacent the opposed edges and disposed in spaced relationship permitting the ribbon to pass therebetween from the chambers to dispense the same.

2. A package according to claim 1 wherein said partitions include separate partitions positioned to define each side of said roll chambers.

3. A package according to claim 1 wherein said wall members are angularly disposed to form roll chambers which are hexagonal in transverse section.

4. A package according to claim 1 wherein the shells are secured together along an edge opposite said flanges and said flanges comprise parallelly positioned generally planar members, one planar member being formed on each shell, and said means formed in said flange comprise retained by friction fit projections to hold the ribbon between said flanges.

5. A package according to claim 1 wherein said package if formed of one integral piece of transparent plymeric material.

6. A package according to claim 5 wherein said material is cellulose propinate.

7. A package according to claim 5 wherein said material is polyvinylchloride.

8. A package according to claim 1 wherein a projection is formed at one end of the package and is provided with hanger means for supporting the package on a rack.