Hand-drying apparatus

• US 3,305,938 A
• Filed: 12/09/1964
• Issued: 02/28/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Arthur Goldstein
• Original Assignee: Arthur Goldstein
• Inventors: Goldstein, Arthur
• Application Number:
  US04/417,085
• Time in Patent Office: 811 Days
• US Class Current: 34/546
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 10/485 combined with a textile or paper towel dispenser
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 225/205 With feed-out of predetermined length from work supply

Claims

1. A HAND DRYING APPARATUS COMPRISING A CABINET IN WHICH TOWELLING CAN BE STORED, SAID CABINET HAVING AN OPENING THROUGH WHICH A LENGTH OF TOWELLING CAN HANG;

A BLOWER OPERABLE TO PRODUCE A STREAM OF AIR;

A DUCT THROUGH WHICH SAID STREAM OF AIR CAN PASS, SAID DUCT HAVING A DISCHARGE OPENING ARRANGED SO THAT THE STREAM OF AIR WILL PASS THERETHROUGH AND FLOW ADJACENT SAID HANGING LENGTH OF TOWELLING;

ELECTRICAL HEATING MEANS ARRANGED WITHIN SAID DUCT SO AS TO HEAT SAID STREAM OF AIR BEFORE IT DISCHARGES FROM SAID OPENING IN SAID DUCT;

AND A CONTROL DEVICE AUTOMATICALLY OPERABLE BY WITHDRAWAL OF SAID LENGTH OF TOWELLING FROM SAID CABINET TO SET SAID BLOWER AND SAID HEATING MEANS IN OPERATION FOR A PREDETERMINED TIME INTERVAL.