EP2559635B1 - Gefaltetes Blattprodukt und Verpackungsanordnung - Google Patents

Gefaltetes Blattprodukt und Verpackungsanordnung Download PDF

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EP2559635B1
EP2559635B1 EP12180737.4A EP12180737A EP2559635B1 EP 2559635 B1 EP2559635 B1 EP 2559635B1 EP 12180737 A EP12180737 A EP 12180737A EP 2559635 B1 EP2559635 B1 EP 2559635B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D83/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
    • B65D83/08—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing thin flat articles in succession
    • B65D83/0894—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing thin flat articles in succession the articles being positioned relative to one another or to the container in a special way, e.g. for facilitating dispensing, without additional support
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47K—SANITARY EQUIPMENT; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR, e.g. TOILET ACCESSORIES
    • A47K10/00—Body-drying implements; Toilet paper; Holders therefor
    • A47K10/24—Towel dispensers; Toilet paper dispensers
    • A47K10/32—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet paper
    • A47K10/42—Dispensers for paper towels or toilet paper dispensing from a store of single sheets, e.g. stacked
    • A47K2010/428—Details of the folds or interfolds of the sheets

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  • This invention generally relates to folded sheet products, and more particularly to folded sheet products such as facial tissues dispensed from a pop-up type package.
  • a standard box size for current packaging techniques is approximately 11.43cm (41 ⁇ 2 inches) wide, 11.43cm (41 ⁇ 2 inches) long, and 12.7cm (5 inches) high.
  • Such a typical box generally holds 70-90 sheets when the clip is folded into a U-shape. It is desirable to provide an improved product having a larger number of sheets available in the same volume as existing packages.
  • U-shaped sheets are also somewhat difficult to pull from the package with one hand, particularly when the package is first opened and the sheets are tightly packed, and when the package is almost empty and doesn't weigh enough for the sheet to be pulled out without friction between the package and the sheet causing the package to be lifted off of the surface upon which it resting along with the tissue that the user is attempting to remove from the package.
  • users often resort to a cover placed over the package to increase the weight of the combined cover and package, and thereby improve the dispensing characteristics.
  • Such covers are also sometimes used primarily for decorative purposes.
  • EP 0 302 382 discloses a compact tissue put-up containing folded tissue sheets which are interfolded with consecutive sheets. The sheets may be twice folded or thrice folded if required.
  • EP 1 127 830 discloses interfolded discrete square sheets folded twice in half so as to form a stack with a substantially square footprint.
  • the invention provides a more efficient stacked product and packaging arrangement therefor, through the use of quarter folded and interfolded sheets forming a more-or-less square or cube shaped stack/clip of interfolded sheets closely matching the inside profile of a substantially cube-shaped package.
  • This new folding arrangement substantially completely fills the package, and allows the same number of sheets provided by former packaging arrangements, which used rectangular sheets folded into U-shaped clips, in a package with a substantially square footprint and having only half the height of the previous packages.
  • the new folding arrangement allows twice as many sheets to be provided in the same size package used in prior approaches requiring U-shaped folded clips of rectangular sheets.
  • the same 70-90 sheets of interfolded facial tissue can be packaged into a package such as a cardboard or paperboard box or a polywrapped (e.g. cellophane wrapped) package that is half the height of current packaging utilizing the U-shaped folded clip.
  • the new tissue folding pattern starts with an essentially square sheet of tissue which is folded in half a first time to form a rectangular shaped folded sheet, and then the sheet is folded a second time to form an approximately square folded sheet.
  • the twice-folded sheets are interfolded with one another to form an interfolded stack of sheets.
  • the invention thus provides a number of potential advantages. For example, the same number of sheets currently provided in a package utilizing a U-shaped clip can now be provided in a package one half of that size, or alternately twice the number of facial tissues can be provided in the same size package as is currently utilized. This results in saving shipping costs for customers, shelf space required for retailers, and a potential savings in natural resources.
  • existing decorative tissue dispensers can be used with the invention by simply inserting two boxes of tissue according to the invention into the dispenser, with one box on top of the other. When the tissue in the top box is exhausted, the top and bottom box are simply interchanged, and tissue is dispensed from the top box sitting on top of the lower empty box within the decorative dispenser.
  • Another advantage of this approach is that the center supports utilized in prior packaging approaches to support the bight of the U-shaped clip of interfolded tissue are not required, thus saving on cost and conserving resources.
  • a particular embodiment of the invention provides a folded product and package arrangement that includes a stack of interfolded substantially square sheets of tissues and a package.
  • the substantially square sheets of tissue are folded substantially in half a first time along a first fold line to form a rectangular-shaped, once-folded sheet having a double thickness, and then having the once-folded, double thickness rectangular sheet folded substantially in half a second time about a second fold line extending substantially perpendicular to the first fold line, to thereby form a twice-folded sheet having a substantially square periphery having four stacked panels of substantially one quarter the size of the sheet before folding.
  • These sheets are then interfolded and the formed stack is not then U-shape folded.
  • the package has a substantially square footprint encompassing the stack.
  • the interfolded substantially square sheets of tissue have a single-fold configuration wherein first and second panels of a sheet are positioned within an upstream sheet and third and fourth panels of the sheet are positioned within a downstream sheet.
  • the second fold lines of the interfolded sheets are parallel to one another.
  • each sheet has an unfolded width and an unfolded length of between about 15.24 and 25.4cm (six and ten inches) and each panel has a length and a width of between 7.62 and 12.7cm (three inches and five inches).
  • the package has a substantially square bottom defining the substantially square footprint, the panels of the sheets are substantially parallel to the substantially square bottom.
  • a width of the panels is substantially equal to a width of the bottom of the package and a length of the panels is substantially equal to a length of the bottom of the package.
  • the dimensions of the panels are no less than 85%, no less than 90% or no less than 95% of the corresponding dimensions of the bottom of the package.
  • the dimensions of the stack are substantially equal to the dimensions of the package.
  • the entire stack is not U-shape folded within the package such that the panels of each sheet remain parallel to the bottom of the package, the bottom being opposite the side having the opening through which the sheets are dispensed from the package.
  • a product and packaging arrangement including two or more folded product and package arrangements and a cover.
  • Each folded product and package arrangement includes a stack of interfolded substantially square sheets of tissue folded substantially in half a first time along a first fold line to form a rectangular-shaped, once-folded sheet having a double thickness, and then having the once-folded, double thickness rectangular sheet folded substantially in half a second time about a second fold line extending substantially perpendicular to the first fold line, to thereby form a twice-folded sheet having a substantially square periphery having four stacked panels of substantially one quarter the size of the sheet before folding; and a package having a substantially square footprint encompassing the stack.
  • the cover is adapted to sit over the stacked product and package arrangements and has an opening in a top end thereof for access to tissues dispensed from a top one of the stacked product and package arrangements.
  • a lower one of the stacked product and package arrangements has dispensed substantially all of the product enclosed therein and supports at least one of the stacked product and package arrangements as the product is dispensed therefrom.
  • the package of each folded product and package arrangement has rigid sidewalls to support the upper one of the stacked products after all of product enclosed therein has been dispensed as the product is being dispensed from the supported one of the product and package arrangement.
  • the rigid sidewalls may provide self-supporting characteristics to the package.
  • the cover has a bottom opening sized larger than the square footprint of the packages, the bottom opening being on in a bottom end opposite the opening in the top end.
  • a method for using a product and package arrangement as described above includes sequentially performing the steps of: a) covering a stack of the two or more product and package arrangements; b) dispensing tissue through the top of the cover from an uppermost one of the stacked product and package arrangements; c) exchanging placement in the stack or the uppermost one of the product and package arrangements with another one of the product and package arrangements in the stack; and d) dispensing tissue through the top of the cover from the another one of the stacked product and package arrangements.
  • FIG. 1 is a simplified illustration of a sheet 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention prior to being folded and interfolded with one or more second or third sheets of similar form.
  • the sheet 100 When the sheet 100 is finally folded, it will be quarter folded to provide for improved packaging in a package 200, see e.g. FIG. 6 over prior art designs.
  • the sheet 100 has a width W and a length L in its unfolded state as illustrated in FIG. 1 .
  • the illustrated sheet preferably, has a substantially square profile such that the width W and length L are substantially equal to one another such that the sheet 100 begins with a substantially square outer periphery.
  • the width W and length L may be different such that sheet 100 has a substantially rectangular outer periphery.
  • the sheet 100 generally has four edges 106A-106D.
  • the first and second edges 106A, 106B extend between the third and fourth edges 106C, 106D while the third and fourth edges 106C, 106D extend between the first and second edges 106A, 106B.
  • the first and second edges 106A, 106B are generally parallel to one another and extend generally perpendicular to the third and fourth edges 106C, 106D, which also extend parallel to one another.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates sheet 100 after a first folding step where the sheet has been folded in half about a first fold line 102.
  • the sheet 100 has now been folded in half to form a rectangular-shaped, once folded sheet having a double thickness. More particularly, there are now two interconnected panels that overlap one another having the rectangular shape generally illustrated in FIG. 2 . The two panels are connected to one another by first fold line 102.
  • the first fold line 102 runs substantially perpendicular to first and second edges 106A and 106B of sheet 100, which are on opposite sides of sheet 100.
  • the first fold line 102 runs substantially parallel to third and fourth edges 106C and 106D of sheet 100, which are on opposite sides of sheet 100 and that run perpendicular to first and second edges 106A and 106B.
  • the width W1 of this once-folded sheet is half of width W of the un-folded sheet 100 ( FIG. 1 ).
  • third edge 106C lays on top of fourth edge 106D.
  • fourth edge 106D is illustrated with a dashed lead line for reference number 106D. The length of this once-folded sheet remains the same as the original unfolded sheet 100.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates sheet 100 after a second folding step where the sheet 100 has been folded about a second fold line 104, which is substantially perpendicular to first fold line 102 and perpendicular to third and fourth edges 106C, 106D.
  • the previously previous rectangular-shaped, once-folded sheet having a double thickness i.e. two interconnected panels
  • the sheet 100 forms four stacked and interconnected panels of substantially one-quarter the size of the sheet 100 before folding.
  • This twice-folded state of sheet 100 can also be referred to as "quarter-folded.”
  • first edge 106A now overlaps the second edge 106B and the third and fourth edges 106C, 106D are now folded in half. Further, first fold line 102 forms one side of the peripheral shape of the quarter folded sheet 100 and second fold line 104 forms another, perpendicular, side of the peripheral shape of the quarter folded sheet 100.
  • Each of the four panels has a substantially rectangular periphery, square in the illustrated embodiment, having a width W1 that is one-half of the width W of the original sheet 100, due to the first folding operation about first fold line 102, and a length L1 that is one-half of the length L of the original sheet 100, due to the second folding operation about the second fold line 104.
  • FIG. 4 is a schematic simplified and exaggerated side view of the sheet 100 when viewed about arrow 110 of FIG. 3 and generally parallel to second fold line 104 and first and second edges 106A, 106B.
  • FIG. 5 is a simplified illustration of a portion of a stack 120 or clip of interfolded, quarter folded sheets 100A-100E.
  • adjacent sheets are interfolded along the second fold line of each sheet to form a single-fold pattern of interfolded sheets.
  • each sheet receives four quarter panels in the opening 122B-122D formed by the sheet. More particularly, two overlapped panels of an upstream sheet and two overlapped panels of a downstream sheet are received in opening 122B-122D formed by a particular sheet. In other words, a double thickness of each adjacent sheet is received in each opening of an individual sheet.
  • two overlapped panels of a given sheet 100 are positioned within the opening 122 of the immediately upstream sheet 100 while the other two overlapped panels of the sheet 100 are positioned within the opening 122 of the immediately downstream sheet 100. While shown in FIG. 5 with significant spacing between adjacent sets of panels, this is merely done for illustrative purposes. Typically, the panels will lay flat on top of one another. Again, FIG. 5 is exaggerated for illustrative purposes. This exaggeration and simplification has been used in numerous of the following illustrations as well.
  • the second fold line 104 of the sheets form the left and right sides of the stack of sheets.
  • the second fold lines 104 of all the sheets are parallel to one another.
  • the sheets that open to the right have their second fold line forming the left side of the stack and the sheets that open to the left have their second fold line forming the right side of the stack. It should be noted that left and right as used herein are merely used to describe relative orientation only.
  • FIG. 6 is a schematic representation of a product and packaging arrangement 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the product and packaging arrangement 200 includes a stack 120 of interfolded, quarter folded sheets 100 within a package 202. Further, the package 202 is typically formed from folded cardboard or paperboard such that it is generally rigid such as is known in standard packaging. Prior to being shipped, these product and packaging arrangements 200 will be wrapped, typically, in a cellophane wrapper.
  • the package 202 could be provided solely by a wrapper formed from cellophane or other thin polymeric material, also referred to as a polywrap.
  • the thin wrapper will include an opening in the top thereof.
  • the opening could be provided by a die-cut or perforated slit or panel that can be opened by the user to access the sheets stored therein.
  • an attachment device may be placed to the outside of the package 202 to secure the entire product and packaging arrangement 200 to an object such as the dashboard of a car, a wall in a bathroom, under a desk, etc.
  • the attachment device could be double sided non-marring tape, could be hook or loop material, or other adhesive type material or mechanism.
  • the package 202 includes an opening 204 in a top 206 thereof through which sheets are dispensed from the package 202. When one sheet is pulled through the opening 204 a portion of the next sheet in the stack 120 is drawn out of the opening due to the interfolded relationship between adjacent sheets.
  • the foot print of the package 202 generally defined by the bottom 208 and top 206 of the package is substantially the same as the foot print of the stack 120 when the stack 120 is not positioned within the internal cavity 212 of the package 202.
  • the bottom 208 of package 202 is illustrated and is substantially the same in shape and size as the foot print defined by the twice folded, quarter folded sheet 100 of FIG. 3 .
  • the width W2 and length L2 of the package 202 defined, in this instance, by the bottom 208 is substantially equal to or slightly larger than the width W1 and length L1 of the twice folded quarter folded sheet 100 of FIG. 3 .
  • the dimensions of the foot print of the package 202 may be greater than the dimensions of the quarter folded panels of sheet 1 by 35% or less.
  • the dimensions of the foot print of the package 202 are less than 25% greater than the dimension of the quarter folded panels. Even more preferably, the dimensions of the foot print of the packages 202 is less than 10 % greater than the dimensions of the quarter folded panels.
  • the panels of the individual sheets remain substantially horizontal within the package 202. This is unlike the prior art product and packaging arrangement 300 illustrated in FIG. 7 and as discussed above. In the illustrated embodiment, because the sheets are better sized for the package in which they are positioned, there is not wasted space within the internal cavity 212 of the package 202. It is noted that the prior art has a stack of sheets that are only once folded in half and thus the length of the sheets is greater than the length of the package. Further, the two product and package arrangements 200 and 300 have the same number of sheets.
  • each package 202 has a height H that is approximately one half the height H1 of package 302 of the prior art.
  • FIG. 9 illustrates a further benefit of embodiments of the present invention. More particularly, due to the reduced height H of the package 202 due to the quarter folded sheets, two product and package arrangements 200 can be positioned in a single cover 400. This provides multiple improvements over the prior art.
  • the height between the bottom 208 of the package 202 and the top of the package 206 for the particular product and package arrangement 200A from which product is being dispensed is reduced in half such that there is no need to provide any internal support for keeping the end portion of the sheets of the stack close enough to the opening in the top of the package so that the sheets will feed effectively from the package 202 all the way to the bottom of the stack, such as illustrated in FIG. 9 .
  • cover 400 includes an opening 402 in a top 404 thereof through which sheets 100 are accessed and dispensed from a corresponding package 202.
  • the emptied package 202A can be switched with the bottom product and package arrangement 200B, as illustrated in FIG. 11 .
  • the empty package 202A now supports the bottom product and package arrangement 200B from which sheets are now being dispensed.
  • An embodiment of the present invention also relates to the use of such an arrangement.
  • One such method includes covering a stack of one or more product and package arrangements 200 with a cover 400.
  • sheets are dispensed through the top 404 of the cover 400 from the upper most one of the stacked product and package arrangements 200.
  • the package 202 of that upper most product and package arrangement 200 is exchanged with another one of the product and package arrangements 200 in the stack of product and package arrangements 200, and particularly one of the product and package arrangements 200 whose sheets have not been exhausted.
  • sheets 100 are dispensed from other one of the product and package arrangements 200.

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  1. Eine Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnung bestehend aus:
    zwei oder mehr gefalteten Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnungen, wobei jede gefaltete Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnung Folgendes umfassen:
    einen Stapel (120) an zusammengefalteten, einzelnen wesentlich quadratischen Papiertuchblättern (100), die mehr oder weniger entlang einer ersten Falzlinie (102) in die Hälfte gefaltet wurden, um eine rechteckige Form zu bilden, wobei das Blatt nach erstem Falzen eine doppelte Dicke aufweist, wonach das einmal gefaltete, rechteckige Blatt doppelter Dicke mehr oder weniger ein zweites Mal um eine zweite Falzlinie (104), die wesentlich senkrecht zur ersten Falzlinie verläuft, zur Hälfte gefaltet, womit das zweimal gefaltete Blatt wesentlich einen quadratischen Umfang mit vier gestapelten Bahnen von mehr oder weniger einem Viertel der Größe des Blatts vor dem Falten aufweist; un
    eine Verpackung (202), die mehr oder weniger eine quadratische Grundfläche hat, die den Stapel umfasst; und
    einen Deckel (400), der adaptiert ist, um auf der gestapelten Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnungen zu liegen, und der an einem oberen Ende eine Öffnung (402) hat, damit Zugriff auf die Tücher, die von oben von den gestapelten Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnungen (200A) gespendet werden, möglich ist.
  2. Die Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnung entsprechend Anspruch 1, wobei die zusammengefalteten, mehr oder weniger quadratischen Papiertuchblätter (100) eine Einzelfalzkonfiguration aufweisen, wobei die erste und zweite Bahn eines Blatts in einem Blatt oberhalb positioniert sind und die dritte und vierte Bahn des Blatts innerhalb eines Blatts unterhalb positioniert sind.
  3. Die Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnung entsprechend Anspruch 1 oder Anspruch 2, wobei die zweiten Falzlinien (102) der Blätter parallel zueinander sind.
  4. Die Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnung entsprechend Anspruch 1 oder Anspruch 2 oder Anspruch 3, wobei jedes Blatt eine ungefaltete Breite und eine ungefaltete Länge von zwischen 15.24 und 25.4 cm (6 und 10 Zoll) und jede Bahn eine Länge und Breite von zwischen 7,62 cm und 12,7 cm (drei Zoll und fünf Zoll) aufweist.
  5. Die Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnung entsprechend einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei die Verpackung (202) mehr oder weniger einen quadratischen Boden (208) aufweist, wodurch die wesentlich quadratische Grundfläche definiert wird, wobei die Blattbahnen wesentlich parallel zum quadratischen Boden sind.
  6. Die Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnung entsprechend Anspruch 5, wobei eine Breite der Bahnen wesentlich einer Breite des Bodens der Verpackung entspricht und eine Länge der Bahnen wesentlich einer Länge des Bodens der Verpackung entspricht.
  7. Die Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnung entsprechend Anspruch 6, wobei
    (i) die Ausmaße der Bahnen nicht weniger als fünfundachtzig Prozent der entsprechenden Ausmaße des Bodens der Verpackung betragen; oder
    (ii) die Ausmaße der Bahnen nicht weniger als neunzig Prozent der entsprechenden Ausmaße des Bodens der Verpackung betragen; oder
    (iii) die Ausmaße der Bahnen nicht weniger als fünfundneunzig Prozent der entsprechenden Ausmaße des Bodens der Verpackung betragen.
  8. Die Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnung entsprechend einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei der gesamte Stapel nicht in U-Form in der Verpackung gefaltet ist.
  9. Die Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnung entsprechend einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei die Verpackungen aus einem starren Verpackungsmaterial geformt sind, das allgemein freistehend ist.
  10. Die Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnung entsprechend einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei die Verpackungen aus einem dünnen Folienmaterial geformt sind.
  11. Eine Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnung bestehend aus zwei oder mehr gefalteten Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnungen, wobei zumindest eine gefaltete Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnung Folgendes umfassen: einen Stapel (120) an zusammengefalteten, einzelnen wesentlich quadratischen Papiertuchblättern (100), die mehr oder weniger entlang einer ersten Falzlinie (102) in die Hälfte gefaltet wurden, um eine rechteckige Form zu bilden, wobei das Blatt nach erstem Falzen eine doppelte Dicke aufweist, wonach das einmal gefaltete, rechteckige Blatt doppelter Dicke mehr oder weniger ein zweites Mal um eine zweite Falzlinie (104), die wesentlich senkrecht zur ersten Falzlinie verläuft, zur Hälfte gefaltet, womit das zweimal gefaltete Blatt wesentlich einen quadratischen Umfang mit vier gestapelten Bahnen von mehr oder weniger einem Viertel der Größe des Blatts vor dem Falten aufweist; und eine Verpackung (202), die mehr oder weniger eine quadratische Grundfläche hat, die den Stapel umfasst; und einen Deckel (400), der adaptiert ist, um auf den gestapelten Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnungen zu liegen, und der an einem oberen Ende eine Öffnung (402) hat, damit Zugriff auf die Tücher, die von oben von den gestapelten Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnungen (200A) gespendet werden, möglich ist, wobei ein untere der gestapelten Produkt- und der Verpackungsanordnungen (200B) wesentlich das gesamte, darin enthaltene Produkt gespendet hat.
  12. Die Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnung entsprechend Anspruch 11, wobei die Verpackung (202) jeder gefalteten Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnung starre Seitenwände hat, um das obere der gefalteten Produkte (200A) zu stützen, wenn das gesamte darin enthaltene Produkt gespendet wurde.
  13. Die Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnung entsprechend einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei der Deckel (400) eine untere Öffnung hat, die größer als die Grundfläche der Verpackungen ist, wobei die untere Öffnung sich am Bodenende gegenüber der Öffnung am oben Ende befindet.
  14. Ein Verfahren zur Verwendung einer Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnung einschließlich von zwei oder mehreren gefalteten Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnungen und einem Deckel entsprechend Anspruch 1, wobei das Verfahren das aufeinander folgende Durchführen der folgenden Schritte umfasst:
    (a) Abdecken eines Stapels der zwei oder mehreren Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnungen;
    (b) Ausgabe von Papiertüchern durch die Oberseite des Deckels von einem obersten der gestapelten Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnungen;
    (c) Austausch von Positionen im Stapel oder der obersten Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnung mit einer anderen der Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnungen im Stapel; und
    (d) Ausgabe von Papiertüchern durch Oberseite des Deckels einer anderen der gestapelten Produkt- und Verpackungsanordnungen.
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