Patent ID: 8857614

Claim:
A container for wipes, the container comprising: a housing that in use receives the wipes, the wipes being formed on a continuous sheet of impregnated material with spaced lines of perforations dividing the sheet of material into the wipes, and a nonrotatable, one-piece dispensing nozzle extending from and fixedly mounted on the housing, the nozzle having a resiliently deformable nozzle wall formed with a resilient aperture through which wipes can be withdrawn from the housing, the nozzle wall having an inner surface, before a wipe is inserted therein, tapering inward from a widened base and then curving smoothly inward into a narrow annular projection defining the aperture that is resiliently expandable to an expanded state to allow withdrawal of wipes therethrough and that is biased toward the housing in a contracted state as a wipe is extracted through the aperture, the nozzle wall pointing outward from the housing in both the retracted state and the expanded state, whereby, in use, a wipe is withdrawn through the nozzle and separated by rupturing the perforations joining the wipe to an adjacent wipe as the nozzle contracts resiliently around a tail of the next adjacent wipe; and a set of teeth on the inner surface of the projection, spaced from the aperture, and engaging into the perforations in the sheet of material as a wipe is withdrawn to separate a wipe from an adjacent wipe, the inner surface being smooth and uninterrupted except at the teeth.