Towel dispenser

• US 4,856,854 A
• Filed: 06/19/1987
• Issued: 08/15/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Duskin Company Limited, Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Duskin Company Limited, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nishiyama, Masanobu, Ozaki: Tatsuo, Nakano, Katsuji, Nishimura, Haruo, Kitamoto, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): Aschenbrenner, Peter A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rendos, Thomas A.
• Application Number:
  US07/063,629
• Time in Patent Office: 788 Days
• Field of Search: 312/37, 312/38, 312/39, 312/40, 312/41, 312/215, 312/222, 312/333, 312/328, 312/138 R, 312/139, 312/109, 220/335, 70/137, 70/139, 292/198, 292/220
• US Class Current: 312/34.11
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 10/28 dispensing a clean part and taking-up a soiled part, e.g. using rolls; with dispensers for soap or other detergents; with disinfecting or heating devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/1078 Closure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5363 Key operable only

Abstract

A towel dispenser which includes a mechanism for eliminating towel sidewise displacement, a device for keeping a front lid open, and a locking device.

Claims

1. A towel dispenser incorporating:

a cover secured to upper end portions of two side plates of a towel dispenser body as a front lid in such a manner as to be openable;

a pin for pivotally supporting said cover, said pin being provided on a tab projecting toward the body from each edge of an upper end portion of said cover;

a pivot arm having one end which is pivotally supported on an outer side of each of said side plates of the body and another, free end which can be pivoted upward; and

a roller provided at the free end of said pivot arm and located at a position where said roller can be engaged with each of said tabs of said cover through an opening formed on each of said side plates.

2. A towel dispenser according to claim 1, wherein a leading end of each of said tabs projecting from said cover is provided with a notch which is engaged with said roller in one position of said cover, and a slope forming a lower edge of each said tab is provided midway therealong with a respective gently curved notch which is engaged with said roller in another position of said cover.

3. A towel dispenser incorporating:

a cover secured to upper end portions of two side plates of a towel dispenser body as a front lid in such a manner as to be openable;

a pivot rod pivotally supported between said two side plates of a towel dispenser body at a position where said pivot rod does not interrupt feeding of a towel, said pivot rod having arms at two ends thereof which extend forward in such a manner that said arms form right angles with a central portion of said pivot rod;

a pin provided on an inner side of a leading end of each of said arms of said pivot rod, said pin being received in a notch of a tab provided on an inner side of each edge of a lower end portion of said openable cover; and

a disk rotatably mounted on an outer frame fixed to an outer side of each of said side plates of the body in such a manner as to cover said side plate, said disk having openings into which prongs of a key can be engaged.

4. A towel dispenser according to claim 3, wherein said openings of said disk into which the prongs of a key can be engaged are disposed in such a manner that said openings are positioned above each of said two arms of said pivot rod while said two arms are aligned in a horizontal direction.

5. A towel dispenser incorporating:

a pair of guide plates provided along a towel passageway of a towel dispenser body at the same spacing as the width of a towel;

a cover secured to the upper end portions of two side plates of said towel dispenser body as a front lid in such a manner as to be openable;

a pin for pivotally supporting said cover, said pin being provided on a tab projecting toward the body from each edge of the upper end portion of said cover;

a pivot arm having one end which is pivotally supported on the outer side of each of said side plates of said body and another, free end which can be pivoted upward; and

a roller provided at the free end of said pivot arm and located at a position where it can be engaged with each of said tabs of said cover through an opening formed on each of said side plates.

6. A towel dispenser incorporating:

a pair of guide plates provided along a towel passageway of a towel dispenser body at the same spacing as the width of a towel;

a pivot rod pivotally supported between two side plates of said towel dispenser body at a position where said pivot rod does not interrupt feeding of a towel, said pivot rod having arms at two ends thereof which extend forward in such a manner that they form right angles with a central portion of said pivot rod;

a pin provided on an inner side of a leading end of each of said arms of said pivot rod, said pin being received in a notch of a tab provided on an inner side of each edge of a lower end portion of an openable cover; and

a disk rotatably mounted on an outer frame fixed to an outer side of each of said side plates of said body in such a manner as to cover said side plates, said disk having openings into which prongs of a key can be engaged.

7. A towel dispenser incorporating:

a cover secured to upper end portions of two side plates of said towel dispenser body as a front lid in such a manner as to be openable;

a pin for pivotally supporting said cover, said pin being provided on a tab projecting toward said body from each edge of an upper end portion of said cover;

a pivot arm having one end which is pivotally supported on an outer side of each of said side plates of the body and another, free end which can be pivoted upward;

a roller provided at the free end of said pivot arm and located at a position where said roller can be engaged with each of said tabs of said cover through an opening formed on each of said side plates;

a pivot rod pivotally supported between said two side plates of said towel dispenser body at a position where said pivot rod does not interrupt feeding of a towel, said pivot rod having arms at two ends thereof which extend forward in such a manner that they form right angles with a central portion of said pivot rod;

a pin provided on an inner side of a leading end of each of said arms of said pivot rod, said pin being received in a notch of a tab provided on an inner side of each edge of a lower end portion of the openable cover; and

a disk rotatably mounted on an outer frame fixed to an outer side of each of said side plates of said body in such a manner as to cover said side plates, said disk having openings into which prongs of a key can be engaged.

8. A towel dispenser incorporating:

a pair of guide plates provided along a towel passageway of a towel dispenser body at the same spacing as the width of a towel;

a cover secured to upper end portions of two side plates of said towel dispenser body as a front lid in such a manner as to be openable;

a pin for pivotally supporting said cover, said pin being provided on a tab projecting toward the body from each edge of an upper end portion of said cover;

a pivot arm having one end which is pivotally supported on an outer side of each of said side plates of said body and another, free end which can be pivoted upward;

a roller provided at the free end of said pivot arm and located at a position where said roller can be engaged with each of said tabs of said cover through an opening formed on each of said side plates;

a pivot rod pivotally supported between said two side plates of said towel dispenser body at a position where said pivot rod does not interrupt feeding of a towel, said pivot rod having arms at two ends thereof which extend forward in such a manner that they form right angles with a central portion of said pivot rod;

a pin provided on an inner side of a leading end of each of said arms of said pivot rod, said pin being received in a notch of a tab provided on an inner side of each edge of a lower end portion of said openable cover; and

a disk rotatably mounted on an outer frame fixed to an outer side of each of said side plates of said body in such a manner as to cover said side plates, said disk having openings into which prongs of a key can be engaged.