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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 1977
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1976
John George Mast, Jr, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Paul James Green, Cincinnati, OH (US);
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
Hand-held, generally T-shaped product applicators and a dispensing package for a stack thereof. Each applicator comprises a body portion and a handle portion. The body portion is dish-shaped with a convex bottom surface and a concave top surface. The bottom surface may be used directly to apply a product, or it may be provided with a product-applying facing. The handle portion is hollow and constitutes an integral, one-piece part of the body portion, extending upwardly from the top surface thereof. The hollow handle portion is open at the bottom surface of the body portion and closed at its top with upwardly and inwardly sloping edges and upwardly and inwardly sloping sides providing finger-grip surfaces. The handle portion of each applicator is so sized that the applicators may be stacked one above the other with their handle portions in telescoped relationship and the product applying facing of each applicator in spac ed relationship to the upper body portion surface of the applicator therebelow in the stack. The dispensing package is configured to receive a stack of applicators. The package has a dispensing opening at one end thereof through which the handle portion of the endmost applicator of the stack is exposed for removal therefrom. The opening is configured to release the applicators one at a time. Means are provided within the package to advance the stack of applicators toward the dispensing opening, as the applicators are removed therefrom.