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Refill container labeling

  • US 9,902,606 B2
  • Filed: 01/02/2015
  • Issued: 02/27/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A dispensing system for dispensing a hygiene product, comprising:

  • a housing into which a refill container comprising the hygiene product is seated, the refill container comprising a label having a first color code;

    an illuminator configured to illuminate the label; and

    a validator configured to validate the refill container based upon a reflection by the label upon the label being illuminated by the illuminator, the validator associated with a dispensing key having a color tolerance range comprising a first analog color tolerance range and a second analog color tolerance range and the validator configured to at least one of enable the housing to accept the refill container or enable a dispenser of the dispensing system to dispense the hygiene product from the refill container responsive to the reflection being within the color tolerance range, the validator further configured to refine the color tolerance range by removing the second analog color tolerance range based upon the reflection corresponding to the first analog color tolerance range and not the second analog color tolerance range to create a refined dispensing key for subsequent validations.

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