Beppy Albers Michel

US Patent:

20030150896, Aug 14, 2003

Filed:

Feb 14, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/076835

Inventors:

Beppy Michel - Rancho Palos Verdes CA, US

International Classification:

B65H035/10

US Classification:

225/017000, 225/020000, 225/039000, 225/056000, 225/077000

Abstract:

A dispensing apparatus comprises the combination of a bandage case and a roll of bandages, the bandage case including a bottom panel and a side wall peripherally mounted integrally to the bottom panel, and a top panel extending from a tab mounted on the peripheral side wall at a living hinge adapted for folding the top panel into surface contact with a top edge of the peripheral side wall. This structure is a single molded part. The top panel is in airtight contact with the sidewall and is secured by a pin-in-hole engagement. The side wall provides a tape exit comprising a pair of side wall portions in side-by-side positions with a tape exit aperture and a tape dispensing cutoff element. The exit aperture provides flexible closure lips enabled for tape sliding contact to exclude dust from the interior of the case. The roll of bandages comprises a coiled tape carrier mounted between the top and bottom panels, one end of the tape carrier extending through the tape exit aperture in a position for being manually grasped for pulling the tape carrier from the bandage case for receiving each of a sequentially positioned series of bandages mounted on the coil.