Tabletop napkin dispenser - Patent 1649795

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EP 1 649 795 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	02.11.2006 Bulletin 2006/44

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	26.04.2006 Bulletin 2006/17

(21)	Application number: 05023171.1

(22)	Date of filing: 24.10.2005

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International Patent Classification (IPC):

A47K 10/42^(2006.01)

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR
	Designated Extension States:
	AL BA HR MK YU

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Priority:

25.10.2004 US 621915 P
19.10.2005 US 253476

(71)	Applicant: Fort James Corporation
	Atlanta, Georgia 30303 (US)

(72)	Inventors:
	Burns, Brent J. Sterling hights, Michigan 48310 (US) Maroney. David R. Cedar, Minesota 55011 (US) Kirchberg. Joseph P. Pine City, Minesota 55063 (US)

(74)	Representative: Grünecker, Kinkeldey, Stockmair & Schwanhäusser Anwaltssozietät
	Maximilianstrasse 58 80538 München 80538 München (DE)

(54)	Tabletop napkin dispenser

(57) A tabletop dispenser (10) for inter-folded napkins includes a housing (12) with a front panel (14), a back panel (16), a pair of sidewalls (18,20), a top wall (22) and a bottom wall for dispensing a stack of inter-folded napkins each of which napkins has a width, W, and a folded length, L', of its lead panel, the dispenser (10) having an elongate dispensing aperture on its front panel (14) and further characterized in that the distance between the front and back panels (14,16) of the dispenser (10) is equal to or less than about the folded length, L', of the lead panels of the inter-folded napkins.

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