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Container for fan-folded sheets

  • US 5,056,682 A
  • Filed: 12/12/1989
  • Issued: 10/15/1991
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/12/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A container for carrying a plurality of substantially flat, flexible sheets and for allowing the sheets to be dispensed, one at a time, wherein the sheets are of substantially the same shape and size and are connected together in a chain and arranged in a uniform, fan-folded stack, the container comprising:

  • means defining an elongated storage chamber with a longitudinal axis and a transverse cross-sectional shape that corresponds generally with the shape of the individual sheets and with a size that permits the stack of fan-folded sheets to slide along the chamber'"'"'s longitudinal axis;

    means located at a forward end of the elongated chamber for defining a slot sized to allow the connected sheets to be dispensed therethrough, one at a time; and

    retainer means located in the elongated chamber, rearwardly of the slot, for defining a constriction having a cross-sectional size slightly smaller than the sheets in a plane perpendicular to the chamber'"'"'s longitudinal axis, so as to retain the stack of fan-folded sheets behind it, wherein the sheets can be individually dispensed by pulling the end sheet through the slot, which flexes a trailing sheet past the constriction, with the remaining sheets being retained behind the constriction.

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