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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2004
Filed:
May. 30, 2002
Yung Hsiang Huang, Appleton, WI (US);
Timothy Walter Shoaf, Appleton, WI (US);
Robert Samuel Schlaupitz, New London, WI (US);
Gerald Keith Sosalla, Appleton, WI (US);
Paige Annette Dellerman, Appleton, WI (US);
Stephen Robert Kehn, Appleton, WI (US);
James Ronald Bath, Appleton, WI (US);
Rodney Carlton Christianson, Oshkosh, WI (US);
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a flexible orifice for pop-up style dispensing with a wet wipes dispenser. The orifice includes a flexible, rubber-like sheet having a top surface and a bottom surface. A continuous slit extends across the top and bottom surfaces of the sheet and enables a wet wipe to pass from the bottom surface to the top surface or from the top surface to the bottom surface. The continuous slit has at least one curved portion connected with at least one non-curved portion. Alternately, the continuous slit has at least one zigzag portion connected with a pair of end leg portions.