Compact dispensing package

Claim 2

A compact dispensing package for sheet material comprising a top-dispensing form-sustaining carton, a Y-shape support member comprising two arms and a stem joined together at a juncture, and a bundle of sheets of flexible material, said support member being inverted in the carton so that it divides said carton into a horizontally extending triangular cross-section tubular space bounded by the arms of said support member and the bottom wall of said carton, and a bundle accommodating space above the arms of said support member, said bundle of sheets being U-folded and draped substantially symmetrically over said inverted Y-shape support member, said carton, said support member, said sheets, and said bundle being so configured that the downwardly extending distal ends of the U-shpae bundle flare outwardly by virtue of resting on upwardly facing surfaces of the arms of the inverted Y-shape support member so that the flared ends of the bundle substantially fill the portions of the lower interior corners of the carton disposed above the arms of said support member and said bundle substantially fills said bundle accommodating space without substantially compressing or restraining said bundle, and said caRton, said stem, said sheets and said bundle being so configured with respect to each other that the ends of the uppermost sheet of said bundle are spaced from said bottom wall a distance at least equal to the elevation of said juncture above said bottom wall whereby the bundle is substantially precluded from shifting during shipping or other handling without substantially impairing the dispensability of said sheets, said sheets being longitudinally U-folded and interleaved to promote pop-up dispensing, said uppermost sheet comprising a top fold and a bottom fold, said top fold being longitudinally folded into a first quarter-fold, a one-half fold, and a second quarter-fold disposed intermediate said first quarter-fold and said one-half fold, said first quarter-fold underlying said second quarter-fold and being contiguous therewith, and said second quarter-fold underlying half of said one-half fold, said quarter-folds and said one-half fold each having an edge extending along an edge of said bundle whereby the distal edge of said one-half fold extends along the longitudinal centerline of said bundle.

Claim 3

A compact dispensing package for sheet material comprising a top-dispensing form-sustaining carton, a Y-shape support member comprising two arms joined to a stem at a juncture, and a bundle of sheets of flexible material, said form-substaining carton comprising two side walls, a front wall, a back wall, a top wall and a bottom wall, said top wall having an aperture therein, said side walls being spaced a distance W inches apart, said front wall being spaced a distance of D inches from said back wall, said top wall being spaced a distance H inches from said bottom wall, said carton further comprising a first lower interior corner formed at the juncture of said front wall with said bottom wall and a second lower interior corner formed at the juncture of said back wall with said bottom wall, said support member being disposed within said carton with the distal end of one of said two arms being disposed in said first interior corner and the distal end of the other of said two arms being disposed in said second interior corner, said stem extending substantially vertically so that is distal end is spaced about a distance T inches below said top wall, said support member dividing the interior of said carton into a horizontally extending triangular cross-section tubular space bounded by the arms of said support member and the bottom wall of said carton, and a bundle accommodating space above the arms of said support member, said support members having a composite length up-and-over it of about L inches, said bundle of sheets having an uncompressed thickness of about T inches, T inches being about one-half D inches, each of said sheets having a length substantially equal to the composite length L of said support member and a width of about W inches, said U-shape folded bundle being draped substantially symmetrically over said support member so that the lowermost surface of the most interior sheet of said U-shape bundle is contiguous with the upwardly facing surfaces of said support member, and said carton, said support member and said sheets being so configured with respect to each other that the ends of the uppermost sheet of said bundle are spaced from said bottom wall a distance at least equal to the elevation of said juncture above said bottom wall, whereby said bundle substantially fills said bundle accommodating space without substantially compressing or restraining said bundle.

Claim 4

A compact dispensing package for sheet material comprising a top-dispensing form-sustaining carton, a Y-shape support member comprising two arms joined to a stem at a juncture, and a bundle of sheets of flexible material, said form-substaining carton comprising two side walls, a front wall, a back wall, a top wall and a bottom wall, said top wall having an aperture therein, said side walls being spaced a distance W inches apart, said front wall being spaced a distance of D inches from said back wall, said top wall being spaced a distance H inches from said bottom wall, said carton further comprising a first lower interior corner formed at the juncture of said front wall with said bottom wall and a second lower interior corner formed at the juncture of said back wall with said bottom wall, said support member being disposed within said carton with the distal end of one of said two arms being disposed in said first interior corner and the distal end of the other of said two arms being disposed in said second interior corner, said stem extending substantially vertically so that is distal end is spaced about a distance T inches below said top wall, said support member dividing the interior of said carton into a horizontally extending triangular cross-section tubular space bounded by the arms of said support member and the bottom wall of said carton, and a bundle accommodating space above the arms of said support member, said support members having a composite length up-and-over it of about L inches, said bundle of sheets having an uncompressed thickness of about T inches, T inches being about one-half D inches, each of said sheets having a length substantially equal to the composite length L of said support member and a width of about W inches, said U-shape folded bundle being draped substantially symmetrically over said support member so that the lowermost surface of the most interior sheet of said U-shape bundle is contiguous with the upwardly facing surfaces of said support member, and said carton, said support member and said sheets being so configured with respect to each other that the ends of the uppermost sheet of said bundle are spaced from said bottom wall a distance at least equal to the elevation of said juncture above said bottom wall, whereby said bundle substantially fills said bundle accommodating space without substantially compressing or restraining said bundle.