Patent ID: 7134572

Claim:
A container for a collection of interfolded tissue-sheets (T), said container comprising: a generally planar top wall ( 1 ); a bottom wall ( 2 ); side walls ( 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ) connecting said bottom wall ( 2 ) with said top wall ( 1 ); and an opening ( 10 ) provided in at least said top wall ( 1 ) for the removal of said tissue-sheets (T) from the container, said stack (T) of interfolded tissue-sheets being placed in said container with at least a pair of edges of a lowermost tissue-sheet placed on said bottom wall ( 2 ) and an uppermost tissue-sheet (T 1 ) placed near or in contact with the top wall and adjacent to the opening in the top wall, which opening ( 10 ) is provided with elongated, overlapping projections ( 11 , 12 ; 16 ′– 16 iv ; 17 ′– 17 iv ) extending from opposite sides of the opening ( 10 ), wherein, each projection has a tip terminating the projection before an edge of an opposing side of the opening, and the tips of adjacent projections extend past each other both in an inactive position, and wherein all projections are placed in the same or in parallel planes, and in an active dispensing position, wherein the projections are raised upwards to grip a tissue.