Construction for holding plastic film

Claim 1

A plastic film dispenser comprising: a hollow container having a take-out opening in a top wall thereof; a continuous, elongated, strip of plastic film inside said container, said strip having transverse lines of perforation at regularly spaced intervals along its length whereby said strip is partitioned into a multiplicity of easily separable sections, said transverse lines of perforation each including two transversely spaced, elongated cuts, said cuts being arranged in two sets, the cuts of each set being parallel with each other and being aligned with each other in the lengthwise direction of said strip, said sets of cuts being equidistant from the respective side edges of said strip, said strip being folded back and forth upon itself to form a stack of superposed layers, wherein all of said lines of perforation are disposed substantially in vertical registry with each other substantially midway between the lateral edges of said stack of superposed layers and the cuts of each set are vertically superposed in registry with each other, said folded strip being disposed in said container so that an upper end of said continuous strip is disposed in close proximity to said opening in said container and can be readily drawn therethrough; and two insert members disposed in substantially fixed positions within said container at opposite ends of said opening and inserted through said sets of cuts, respectively, said folded strip thereby being retained in said container, said insert members having means for binding said folded, continuous plastic film in a bundle, said bundle being retained in said container, whereby when said upper end of said strip is drawn a sufficient distance out of said container, said film becomes taut between said end being drawn out and said insert members, and said film tears across the width thereof at the topmost one of said lines of preforation and one of said sections of said film is thereby drawn from said dispenser.