Claims
- 1. A towel dispenser for flat strip material, the towel dispenser being of a type with a conveying mechanism for simplified threading-in and for forming a loop of clean strip material suitable for drying hands, wherein the conveying mechanism is provided with a pivoting unit rotatable outwards about a stationary shaft and mounted in side panels, and said conveying mechanism is initiated by a closing of the dispenser by a housing cover and/or by a drive member actuable manually, whereby the strip material is capable of rolling off in portions from a supply of clean material by way of a dispensed loop onto a replaceable roller with used material, characterized in that the pivoting unit (2) is provided in an upper region with bearing points (38) for inserting a removable winding roller (5) in two mutually opposed lateral flanges, a recess (10) for forming an additional loop of strip material (T′) is provided between the winding roller (5) and a guide (8, 9, 4) for the strip material (T, T′), and a compensating roller is provided in the recess for following and tightening the additional loop of strip material, the compensator roller (50) being guided axially parallel in two lateral guides (45) and being returnable by a spring-loaded cable line (60; 61).
- 2. A towel dispenser according to claim 1, characterized in that sets of teeth (46), into which gearwheels (52) arranged at both ends of the compensator roller (50) engage, are provided in the lateral guides (45).
- 3. A towel dispenser according to claim 2, characterized in that a gripper rocker (55) loaded by a spring (58) engages with a recess (56) over an end side of the compensator roller (50), and the rocker (55) is operatively connected to a cover (25) by way of a stop pin (59).
- 4. A towel dispenser according to claim 1, characterized in that the pivoting unit (2) is provided with at least one shell-shaped guiding and gripping recess (3), at least one freely rotatable roller (4) projects above the recess (3), a delivery roller (37) is arranged pressing against the cloth (T) below the roller (4) when the cover (25) is closed, and the delivery roller (37) transmits the movement of the cloth in the rolling direction (A) completely to a control and drive device (100).
- 5. A towel dispenser according to claim 1, characterized in that the pivoting unit (2) is rotatably mounted on two mutually opposed shaft pins (11) in guiding and bearing points (41) in side panels (18, 19) of the dispenser (1), and a slotted guide (49) or set of teeth guiding the pivoting unit (2) laterally and with a limited angle of rotation is provided in at least one of the two side panels (18, 19) of the dispenser (1).
- 6. A towel dispenser according to claim 1, characterized in that a control and drive device (100) is attached to a side panel (18), and performs a path-dependent synchronous run between the delivery of clean cloth (T) and the winding-up of used cloth (T′), as well as a portioning and time control thereof.
- 7. A towel dispenser for vertical mounting, in particular on a wall, for flat strip material, the towel dispenser being of a type with a conveying mechanism for simplified threading-in and for forming a loop of clean strip material suble for drying hands, wherein the conveying mechanism is provided with a pivoting unit rotatable outwards about a stationary shaft and mounted in side panels, and said conveying mechanism is initiated by a closing of the dispenser by a housing cover and/or by a drive member actuable manually, whereby the strip material is capable of rolling off in portions from a supply of clean material by way of a dispensed loop onto a replaceable roller with used material, characterized in that the pivoting unit (2) is provided in an upper region with bearing points (38) for inserting a removable winding roller (5) in two mutually opposed lateral flanges, a recess (10) for forming an additional loop of strip material (T′) is provided between the winding roller (5) and a guide (8, 9, 4) for the strip material (T, T′), above the pivoting unit (2) a fabric receptacle (15) for clean cloth (T) guided in side panels (18, 19) of the dispenser (1) is mounted displaceably in a vertical plane parallel to the said side panels (18, 19), an underside of said fabric receptacle (15) supports a friction roller (6) for loading and driving the winding roller (5) with used cloth (T′), the friction roller being operatively connected to a gearing mechanism provided on one side panel, a vertical guide groove passing into a curved guide groove (20, 39) is formed in at least one of the two side panels (18, 19), and mutay opposed horizontal guide grooves (13), which guide the gearing mechanism (22) with non-positive locking in the vertical plane irrespectively of the increasing diameter of the winding roller (5) around which the used cloth (T′) is wound, are provided in the two lateral flanges (15′) of the fabric receptacle (15).
- 8. A towel dispenser according to claim 7, characterized in that grooves (43) and linear sets of teeth (44), into which guides at the rear of the fabric receptacle (15) engage, are formed in a rear wall (40) of the dispenser (1).
- 9. A towel dispenser according to claim 8, characterized in that the guides at the rear of the fabric receptacle (15) are gearwheels projecting from the fabric receptacle (15) and coupled to one another sdas to be freely rotatable.
- 10. A towel dispenser.according to claim 7, characterized in that the fabric receptacle (15) can be lifted by a lateral projection (32) by way of a slide (27) with a lifting cam (31) in a vertical lifting direction (H).
- 11. A towel dispenser according of claim 10, characterized in that the slide (27) has a base arranged at an oblique angle and having a sliding face (29) coming into engagement as a result of a sliding cam projecting on the inside on a cover (25) of the dispenser (1).
- 12. A towel dispenser according to claim 7, characterized in that a bearing (42′) is attached to a side panel (18), and a pin guide (42) for a pivoting lever of a filling-state indicator for the supply of cloth (T) is inserted, which establishes and indicates the vertical position of the fabric receptacle (15).
- 13. A towel dispenser for flat strip material, the towel dispenser being of the type with a conveying mechanism for simplified threading-in and for forming a loop of clean strip material suitable for drying hands, wherein the conveying mechanism is provided with a pivoting unit rotatable outwards about a stationary shaft and mounted in side panels, and the said conveying mechanism is initiated by a closing of the dispenser by a housing cover and/or by a drive member actuable manually, whereby the strip material is capable of rolling off in portions from a supply of clean material by way of a dispensed loop onto a replaceable roller with used material, characterized in that the pivoting unit (2) is provided in an upper region with bearing points (38) for inserting a removable winding roller (5) in two mutually opposed lateral flanges, a recess (10) for forming an additional loop of strip material (T′) is provided between the winding roller (5) and a guide (8, 9, 4) for the strip material (T, T′), vertical guide grooves (23), into which guide pins (16) projecting in pairs out of the lateral flanges of a fabric receptacle (15), are formed in side panels (18, 19) of the dispenser.
Priority Claims (1)
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Parent Case Info
The present application is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 08/945,178 filed Oct. 16, 1997 now abandoned, which is a national stage of PCT/CH96/00141 filed Apr. 17, 1996.
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Continuation in Parts (1)
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