Patent ID: 6892620

Claim:
An electro-mechanical roll towel dispenser for dispensing measured towel sheets from a roll of the towel material, comprising: a housing, and a roll carrier disposed in said housing to rotationally support the roll of towel material, said housing further comprising a dispensing slot defined therein through which measured sheets of the towel material are dispensed; an electro-mechanical feed mechanism disposed in said housing to dispense the sheets of towel material therefrom, said feed mechanism having a first mechanical operational state wherein a sheet of towel material is dispensed by a user grasping and pulling on a tail of the towel sheet extending from said dispensing slot, and means for automatically dispensing an additional measured length of the towel material in a second electrical operational state wherein the additional measured length of the towel material is electrically and automatically fed out of said dispensing slot after the sheet of towel material is severed to define a tail of a subsequent sheet of towel material; a motor disposed in said housing to drive said feed mechanism in said second electrical operational state.