Patent ID: 9272838
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: A62B,B65B,B65D

Claim Text:
1. A system for containing a stack of a plurality of face masks and dispensing individual face masks from the stack, the system comprising: a container defining an interior volume and including a top panel and a bottom panel; wherein the bottom panel forms a cut-line defining a perimeter of a flap that is transitionable from an initial, closed state in which the flap is contiguous with a remainder of the bottom panel to an open state in which the flap is at least partially removed from the remainder of the bottom panel to generate an opening in the bottom panel to the interior volume; and a stack of a plurality of folded face masks disposed in the interior volume, each of the folded face masks including an elastic sheet forming a central portion and opposing first and second lateral end portions extending from opposite sides, respectively, of the central portion, and folded such that at least a section of the corresponding first lateral end portion extends from a first fold line along a first face of the corresponding central portion; wherein the stack includes a bottommost folded face mask located proximate the bottom panel, the first lateral end portion of the bottommost folded face mask facing the bottom panel; and further wherein the system provides a dispensing mode in which: