Convenience kit for dispensing different personal hygiene components

• US 5,242,057 A
• Filed: 12/21/1992
• Issued: 09/07/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
• Original Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
• Inventors: Steinhardt, Mark J., Cook, Charles D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Foster, Jimmy G.
• Application Number:
  US07/992,325
• Time in Patent Office: 260 Days
• Field of Search: 206/223, 206/229, 206/233, 206/494, 206/581, 206/812, 206/823, 220/476, 220/480, 221/33-35, 221/44, 221/45, 221/48, 221/63
• US Class Current: 206/581
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 10/421 dispensing from the top of the dispenser A47K10/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 17/003 Dispensers or holders for protecting covers for toilet bowls, seats or covers combined with seats A47K13/24
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 2010/3266 Wet wipes
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 2010/428 Details of the folds or interfolds of the sheets
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/0805 through an aperture in a wall
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 206/812 Packaged towel

Abstract

A personal care convenience kit is disclosed which dispenses different personal hygiene components in a sequential, one at a time fashion through a single dispensing opening. The convenience kit includes a compliant package having a first dispensing opening, and at least two different personal hygiene components ordered with respect to the first dispensing opening. The compliant package can include an auxiliary dispensing opening for dispensing at least one of the different components out of sequence.

Claims

1. A personal care convenience kit comprising:

a compliant package having a first dispensing opening; and

at least two different personal hygiene components disposed inside the compliant package and dispensable through the first dispensing opening, at least a portion of a first one of the components being located intermediate the first dispensing opening and at least a portion of a second one of the components so as to inhibit dispensing of the second component until the first component has been dispensed, such that the components are ordered with respect to the first dispensing opening to provide sequential, one at a time dispensing of the different components through the first dispensing opening.

2. The convenience kit recited in claim 1 wherein the first dispensing opening restricts the different components from simultaneous dispensing.

15. The convenience kit recited in claim 1 further comprising an adhesive mounting means for temporarily securing the convenience kit to a surface.

3. The convenience kit recited in claim further comprising an auxiliary dispensing opening for dispensing at least one of the different components out of sequence.

4. The convenience kit recited in claim wherein the compliant package is moisture impervious.

5. The convenience kit recited in claim wherein the different components comprise a folded toilet seat cover and a folded length of tissue paper separate from the folded toilet seat cover.

6. The convenience kit recited in claim 5 wherein the different components further comprise a moisture impervious packet containing a moistened wipe.

7. The convenience kit recited in claim 5 wherein the folded length of tissue paper is spaced from the first dispensing opening by the folded toilet seat cover.

8. The convenience kit recited in claim 7 wherein the different components further comprise a moisture impervious packet containing a moistened wipe, and wherein the moisture impervious packet is spaced from the first dispensing opening by the folded toilet seat cover and the folded length of tissue paper.

9. The convenience kit recited in claim 7 wherein a portion of the folded length of tissue paper is interfolded with a portion of the folded toilet seat cover.

10. The convenience kit recited in claim 5 wherein the first dispensing opening has an area less than the projected area of the folded toilet seat cover and less than the projected area of the folded length of tissue paper.

11. The convenience kit recited in claim 10 wherein the first dispensing opening is centrally located on a package sidewall, the first dispensing opening is an elongated opening with mutually orthogonal major and minor axes, and the first dispensing opening major axis is generally parallel to fold lines on both the folded toilet seat cover and the folded length of tissue paper.

12. The convenience kit recited in claim 11 wherein the first dispensing opening major axis is at least 5/3 times as long as the first dispensing opening minor axis.

13. The convenience kit recited in claim 10 wherein the folded seat cover is folded longitudinally and laterally, and wherein the folded length of tissue paper is folded longitudinally.

14. The convenience kit recited in claim 13 wherein the folded toilet seat cover and the folded length of tissue paper longitudinally unfold upon withdrawal through the first dispensing opening.

16. A personal care convenience kit comprising:

a compliant package having a first sidewall peripherally joined to a generally oppositely facing second sidewall to form a pocket therebetween, an elongated first dispensing opening located on the first sidewall; and

at least two different personal hygiene components disposed inside the pocket, at least a portion of a first one of the components being located intermediate the first dispensing opening and at least a portion of a second one of the components so as to inhibit dispensing of the second component until the first component has been dispensed, such that the components are ordered with respect to the first dispensing opening to provide sequential, one at a time dispensing of the different components through the first dispensing opening.

17. The convenience kit recited in claim 16 further comprising a second dispensing opening located on one of the sidewalls.

18. The convenience kit recited in claim 17 wherein the second dispensing opening is located on the first sidewall.

19. A personal care convenience kit comprising:

a compliant package having a first sidewall peripherally joined to a generally oppositely facing second sidewall to form a pocket therebetween, an elongated first dispensing opening located on the first sidewall, and an auxiliary dispensing opening located on the second sidewall;

a longitudinally and laterally folded toilet seat cover disposed in the pocket adjacent the first dispensing opening;

a longitudinally folded length of tissue paper disposed in the pocket, the folded length of tissue paper separate from, and adjacent to, the folded toilet seat cover, and the folded length of tissue paper spaced from the first dispensing opening by the folded toilet seat cover; and

a liquid impermeable packet containing a moistened wipe, the liquid impermeable packet disposed in the pocket and spaced from the first dispensing opening by the folded length of tissue paper and the folded toilet seat cover, the liquid impermeable packet accessible through the auxiliary opening without removing the folded toilet seat cover and without removing the folded length of tissue paper.

20. The convenience kit recited in claim 19 further comprising an adhesive mounting means for temporarily securing the convenience kit to a surface, wherein the adhesive mounting means is disposed on the second sidewall.

21. A personal care convenience kit comprising:

a compliant package having a dispensing opening; and

at least two different radially ordered personal hygiene components disposed inside the compliant package, at least a portion of a first one of the components being located intermediate the dispensing opening and at least a portion of a second one of the components so as to inhibit dispensing of the second component until the first component has been dispensed, whereby the package provides sequential, one at a time dispensing of the at least two different components through the dispensing opening.

22. The convenience kit recited in claim 21 wherein the dispensing opening restricts the different personal hygiene components from simultaneously dispensing.

23. The convenience kit recited in claim 21 wherein the different components comprise a toilet seat cover and a length of tissue paper separate from the toilet seat cover.

24. The convenience kit recited in claim 23 wherein the toilet seat cover is spirally wound, and wherein the length of tissue paper is spirally wound and disposed radially outward of the toilet seat cover.

25. The convenience kit recited in claim 24 wherein the different components further comprise a moisture impervious packet containing a moistened wipe.