Resealable dispensing container for folded towels

• US 4,570,820 A
• Filed: 01/23/1985
• Issued: 02/18/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/1983
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Creative Products Resource, Inc. (Henkel AG & Co KGaA)
• Original Assignee: Creative Products Resource Associates, Ltd.
• Inventors: Murphy, Betty J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Skaggs, H. Grant
• Application Number:
  US06/694,471
• Time in Patent Office: 391 Days
• Field of Search: 221/33, 221/45, 221/47, 221/48, 221/50, 221/49, 221/52, 221/55, 221/56, 221/61, 221/63, 221/101, 221/102, 221/283, 221/154, 221/97, 221/34, 221/135, 222/107, 222/541, 206/210-361, 383/65
• US Class Current: 221/34
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 33/24 using self-locking integral or attached closure elements, e.g. flaps B65D33/25 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/0847 through an aperture at the junction of two walls
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 206/807 Tamper proof

Abstract

This invention relates to a container for a stack of folded, preferably treated, towels, comprising a flexible, water-impermeable envelope having in the interior space thereof a movable apertured stiffening plate.

Claims

1. A flexible container containing a stack of towels and adapted for dispensing said towels comprising a moisture impermeable flexible envelope having a resealable opening and said envelope having in the interior space thereof a movable aperatured stiffening plate of an area substantially equivalent to one surface of said envelope and one surface of said towel stack, said plate being positioned between said towel stack surface and said envelope surface so that said aperture is aligned with said resealable opening in the envelope surface, and said towels being stacked and sized so as to be sequentially removable through said aperture and said opening, and said opening having two opposed edges equipped with opposed closure member strips which are attached adjacent to said edges and are adapted so as to interlock and seal said opening under pressure;

wherein said resealable opening is centered on an axis of said envelope surface and is large enough to permit a removed towel to be reinserted between said surface and the stiffening plate;

a pair of crimped end walls at opposing ends of said resealable opening, and at least one of said end walls having means for suspending said container attached thereto; and

wherein said edges may be sealed together so as to form a flange which acts to cover and protect said interlocked closure members.

2. The container of claim 1 further comprising a means to assist the removal of the sealed portion of said flange so as to expose said closure members.

3. The container of claim 2 wherein said means for assisting the removal of the sealed portion of said flange comprise a notch positioned at one end of said flange at a point between said sealed edges and said closure members.

4. The container of claim 1 wherein said means for suspending said container comprise a plastic loop attached to one or more eyelets set into a crimped edge of said envelope.

5. The container of claim 1 further comprising an impregnating agent absorbed in said towels, said impregnating agent comprising one or more emollients, and said envelope being substantially impervious to air.

6. The container of claim 1 wherein said envelope is formed of a metallized plastic sheet.

7. The container of claim 6 wherein the metallized plastic sheet comprises a metal foil having a thermoplastic coating.

8. The container of claim 7 wherein the metal foil comprises aluminum and the thermoplastic is selected from the group consisting of a polyethylene and polyethylene terephthalate.

9. The container of claim 6 wherein the metallized plastic sheet comprises a metallized sheet of polyethylene terephthalate having a surface laminated with a thin layer of polyethylene.

10. The container of claim 1 wherein the opening extends along a major portion of said axis.