Patent ID: 6209724
Filing Date: 2001-04-03
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
A dispenser for a stack of substantially planar, substantially parallel compressible nonwoven fiberglass pads, each pad having peripheral pad edges and first and second opposing major surfaces lying in first and second major surface plans, respectively, each major surface having substantially more surface area than any peripheral pad edge, the stack having first and second adjoining peripheral stack edges, each peripheral stack edge having a predetermined length, the dispenser comprising:(a) a fluid-impervious envelope in which the stack is enclosed, said envelope having a fluidtight seal for preventing entrance of air into the envelope, the envelope also having first and second adjoining peripheral walls, said first and second peripheral walls lying in first and second peripheral wall planes, respectively, that are transverse to the first and second major surface planes of the pads, said first peripheral wall being adjacent the first peripheral stack edge, and said second peripheral wall being adjacent the second peripheral stack edge; and(b) first and second elongated openings formed in the first and second peripheral walls, each opening extending for at least about one-half and no more than an about three-quarters the length of each of the adjacent peripheral stack edges, said elongated openings intersecting at a common end to form a dispensing aperture that exposes a portion of the peripheral stack edges and permits dispensing of the pads in the stack.