AUTOMATIC TOWEL DISPENSER
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Abstract
A towel dispenser includes a housing for receiving toweling. The housing includes a main body; a loading door that is configured to rotate relative to the main body between a closed position and an open position; and a guide system that includes a first roller attached to the main body and a second roller attached to the loading door. The towel dispenser may include a motor for driving dispensing of the toweling from the housing and an associated sensor. The towel dispenser can be mounted to an underside of a cabinet. In an aspect, the front wall of the main body and a lip of the loading door collectively define a gap to which the guiding system guides the toweling and through which towels are dispensed when the loading door is in the closed position.
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23 Claims
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1-22. -22. (canceled)
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23. A sheet material dispenser for dispensing sheet material from a roll of sheet material, the sheet material dispenser comprising:
a housing comprising; a main body; a loading door movable between a closed position and an open position relative to the main body; and a guide system comprising at least one roller, wherein the at least one roller is configured to operate to guide the sheet material during dispensing out of the main body; wherein the loading door comprises a loading door body defining an area within which the roll of sheet material is positioned when the roll of sheet material is received by the housing, wherein the main body and the loading door define a gap through which sheet material is dispensed when the loading door is in the closed position.
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