Patent ID: 6267460
Filing Date: 2001-07-31
Classification: A47K

Abstract:
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).