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Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2023

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2018
Applicant:

Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);

Inventors:

Jonathan Green, Ossett, GB;

Michiel de Haan, Leiden, NL;

Freerk van Oudheusden, Leiden, NL;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47K 10/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47K 10/3836 (2013.01); A47K 2010/3881 (2013.01);
Abstract

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.


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