Top opening facial tissue container
CA 2102163 A1 · Owner: Annand, Charles A. · Inventors: Annand, Charles A.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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Summary of the Invention Broadly, the present invention provides a permanent reusable container for facial tissue which will be of low cost injection molded plastic and which will use facial tissues supplied in a standard packet or in a pre-compressed packet from a bulk pack of tissue packets and, where the tissues will be removed from the top oval opening one tissue, at a time. A floating friction control plate inside the container will control the subsequent removal of tissues from the packet inside the container one tissue at a time and also assist in holding the tissue vertically. The container will be fitted with a detachable bottom to support the packet of facial tissues which are …
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed November 1, 1993. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 1, 2013.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 1, 2015.
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