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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2002
Nathan John Vogel, Sturgeon Bay, WI (US);
Kenneth Bradley Close, New London, WI (US);
Brian Chun-keet Kwok, Neenah, WI (US);
Yung Hsiang Huang, Appleton, WI (US);
Nathan John Vogel, Sturgeon Bay, WI (US);
Kenneth Bradley Close, New London, WI (US);
Brian Chun-Keet Kwok, Neenah, WI (US);
Yung Hsiang Huang, Appleton, WI (US);
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a stack of wipes for use in a reach-in wipes dispenser having a dispensing opening, and related method. The stack includes a plurality of wipes stacked upon each other. Each wipe is separably joined to an adjacent wipe to form a joint therebetween. For at least 50% of the wipes in the stack of wipes, dispensing a top wipe from the stack of wipes causes an adjacent following wipe to at least partially be drawn upwards towards and/or through the dispensing opening, and the top wipe completely separates automatically from the following wipe at the joint before the following wipe completely passes through the dispensing opening, and when the top wipe completely separates automatically from the following wipe the following wipe falls back towards the stack of wipes and is positioned within the dispenser and below the dispensing opening.