Patent ID: 6763970
Filing Date: 2004-07-20
Classification: A41D,B65D

Abstract:
A dispensing system for individual planar shaped face masks from a stack of such masks comprising:a container having a top, a bottom, and a plurality of walls defining an interior space; a plurality of individual planar shaped face masks, each comprising a shape retaining element for conforming the mask to a user's face, and a plurality of ties for securing the mask to the user's face, and each mask arranged in stacked relation with respect to an adjacent mask with the ties from substantially all of the masks disposed upon an uppermost surface of an uppermost mask in the stack; a dispensing opening having a length, a height, and a widened region defined in a lowermost portion of one of the plurality of walls, the length substantially corresponding to the length of the face mask and the height substantially corresponding to the thickness of the face mask, the plurality of face masks positioned so that the shape retaining element of each face mask is disposed proximal to the wall having the dispensing opening and a bottommost face mask of the stack is substantially aligned with the dispensing opening in a dispensing position, the widened region providing a location for the user to grip the bottommost mask proximal to the shape retaining element for extraction from the interior space of the container.