Patent ID: 8210393

Claim:
A tissue dispensing device, for use with a standard tissue carton of the type formed as a rectangular box containing a stack of folded, interleaved tissues and having a dispenser aperture formed in a top surface of the tissue carton with a dispensing membrane held within the dispenser aperture which can be separated to provide a membrane opening through which tissues are pulled and which retains a leading part of a tissue for a user to grasp the next tissue to be dispensed, said tissue dispensing device comprising: a helical coil spring that is highly stretchy and has a top coil provided with means for fastening around the dispenser aperture in the top surface of the tissue carton with the remainder of the helical coil spring inserted into a space between the top surface of the tissue carton and top of the stack of tissues within the carton with a bottom coil thereof resting on top of the stack of tissues, wherein said helical coil spring forms an open circular space within its coils under gravity that provides a vertically-extending support structure for supporting a tissue next to be dispensed from the tissue stack in a vertical standing position with a leading part thereof extending through the membrane opening of the dispenser aperture of the tissue carton to enable a user to grasp the leading part to withdraw the next tissue to be dispensed.