Automatic towel dispenser

US4338801A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• LUK Lamellen Und Kupplungsbau · US

Inventors

• Bernd Beitecke · Dortmund, DE
• Reinhold Schmidt · Schallstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 18, 1981
• Grant date: Jul 13, 1982
• Expiry date: Mar 18, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A47K10/30
• WIPO field: Furniture, games
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

An automatic towel dispenser has a housing containing a washing and a drying chamber for an endless towel passable therethrough and has a cleaned section available for use extending outside the housing between a delivery slot and an inlet slot, respectively, formed in the housing, the endless towel being movable from the inlet slot to the washing chamber and from the drying chamber to the delivery slot, the housing also containing a first supply chamber for variably stacking a plurality of soiled towel sections of the endless towel therein and a second supply chamber for variably stacking a plurality of cleaned towel sections of the endless towel therein, the sections of the towel being depositable from above into the respective supply chamber therefor and being withdrawable from below an overlying loop thereof. The dispenser is improved with a shaft separated from the respective supply chamber and traversible by the towel sections withdrawable from the respective supply chamber.