Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Jonathan Green

Joseph Elisabeth Oberdorf

Bastiaan Roelof Tjaden

Klemen Erzen

David Reynolds

Michiel De Haan

Elise A Gouveia

Paul Francis Tramontina

Stephen Becker

Todd James Huthmaker

Kelly Davis Arehart

James Garfield Pryor

Jos Oberdorf

Tessa Souhoka

Richard S Thom

Victoria Brown

Peter W Yemc

Darren John Hubbert

Bradley M Reynolds

Christopher Bleasby

Michiel De Hann

Matthew Walton

Freerk Van Oudheusden

Wolfgang Heich

A dispenser for dispensing dispensable product is provided. The dispenser includes a housing having an interior volume so as to retain the dispensable product. The dispenser also includes a front cover assembly and a backplate that each form at least a portion of the housing. The front cover assembly includes a front plate having a first side and a second and opposite side. The first side forms the exterior of the dispenser and the second side faces the interior volume. A printed circuit board is disposed on the second side of the front plate. The back plate includes a first side and a second and opposite side facing the interior volume. One or more power packs are disposed on the second side of the backplate. The printed circuit board is powered by the one or more power packs when the front cover assembly is in a closed position.

Dispenser with roll transfer mechanism

Absorbent paper product dispenser

Methods for producing a dispenser for dispensable products are disclosed. The method includes attaching a label to the front plate of the dispenser by an in-mold process. The label has a label height (H) that is less than the front plate height (H) and label width (W) that is less than the front plate width (W) such that a border is formed around at least a portion of the label in the front plate. The front plate can be formed from a transparent material while the label is formed from an opaque material.

Methods of in-molding labels and dispensers thereof

Paper product dispenser

A dispenser for dispensing materials is disclosed. The dispenser includes a backplate, a cover, and a circular mounting bracket. The backplate includes a second side having a bracket engagement area thereon. The cover encloses at least portion of the backplate when in a closed condition forming a housing having an interior volume so as to retain at least one dispensable product. The circular mounting bracket includes a faceplate containing one or more holes configured to receive a fastener for securing the mounting bracket to a wall. The faceplate includes at least one flange raised from a first surface of the faceplate. The bracket engagement area includes at least one latching means configured to engage the flange to secure the backplate to the mounting bracket.

Dispensing device with mounting bracket

A dispenser comprising a body, a dispensing device having an orifice, a gate configured to move between a first position and a second position with respect to the orifice, a biasing device to bias the gate towards the first position, and a dampener coupled to the gate and configured to impede the biasing device from biasing the gate towards the first position to delay, in time, the gate from moving from the second position to the first position; and wherein in the first position the gate engages the sheets passing through the orifice with enough force to break a perforation separating two contiguous sheets of the series to cause single sheet dispensing; and the delay allows multiple sheets of the series of interconnected sheets to pass through the orifice, when pulled at a given rate, before the gate moves from the second position to the first position.

Sheet product dispenser

A dispenser for sheet materials is disclosed. The dispenser includes a housing and a front cover. The dispenser includes a first internal door configured to secure a first roll of sheet material in a dispensing position and a second internal door configured to secure a second roll of sheet material in a dispensing position. The first and second doors include first and second nozzles for dispensing sheet material. The dispenser is a centrally unwinding dispenser.

Dispenser for rolled sheet material

A dispenser for dispensing materials is disclosed. The dispenser includes a backplate, a cover, and a mounting bracket. The mounting bracket allows for level mounting of the dispenser to a mounting surface, such as a wall. The mounting bracket can be a rectangular mounting bracket having one or more ramp members and one or more ramp extensions. The mounting bracket can also be a circular mounting bracket. The dispenser includes a bracket engagement area configured to secure the dispenser to the mounting bracket.

Cleaning product dispenser

A system and control method are provided for authenticating a paper product dispensed from a dispenser. The paper product formation is loaded into the dispenser, the formation having an identification mark engraved into a surface thereof. Within the dispenser, incident light is directed onto the surface and a digital image of the surface is captured. The engraved identification mark produces a recognizable authentication signature in the digital image as compared to surrounding surface of the paper product formation. The captured digital image is analyzed for presence of the authentication signature, and if the authentication signature is not present, the paper product formation is deemed unauthorized and a responsive action is initiated.

Method and system for authentication of a paper product in a dispenser

A system and control method are provided for determining an amount of a product dispensed from or added to a product formation. At defined intervals, a mark is projected with a light source imager onto an aspect of the product formation that changes as the amount of product is depleted or added to the product formation. A digital image is taken of the aspect of the product formation that captures the projected mark and is transmitted to a digital imager processor, wherein a feature of the projected mark is analyzed that changes as the product formation decreases or increases in size as the product is dispensed or added. The analyzed feature is compared with a predetermined value of the feature at a predefined size of the product formation to determine an actual amount of the product on the product formation, or amount of product depleted from or added to the product formation.

Method and system for determining usage of a rolled or stacked product

Dispenser for quarter-folded wipers

Cube dispenser for folded towels

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Warlingham, United Kingdom

Jonathan Green