Automatic wet towel supplying apparatus

• US 5,829,278 A
• Filed: 06/05/1997
• Issued: 11/03/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: C & G Co., Ltd., Daesin CAS Company Limited
• Original Assignee: C & G Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Koo, Ja Yoon
• Primary Examiner(s): Stinson, Frankie L.
• Application Number:
  US08/866,246
• Time in Patent Office: 516 Days
• Field of Search: 134/64 R, 134/122 R, 134/201, 68/202, 68/205 R, 118/324, 118/325, 222/180, 8/151
• US Class Current: 68/205.00R
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 10/26 Mechanically-driven towel dispensers, e.g. with storing devices for soiled towelsA47K10/28 takes precedence; for paper towels A47K10/34
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 10/3606 The cutting devices being motor driven
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 10/3612 with drive and pinch rollers
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 2010/328 by spraying

Abstract

An automatic wet towel supplying device includes a cutting member for automatically supplying and cutting a dry cotton cloth, a spraying member for providing uniform dampening moisture to produce a wet towel, and a winding member for winding the wet towel in a rolled state while homogenizing the moisture content in the wet towel.

Claims

1. An automatic wet towel supplying apparatus comprising:

a cutting member disposed in a housing, said cutting member including;

a first driving motor connected to a first driving gear;

a first driven gear in gearing relationship with said first driving gear and having a first driven shaft, said driven shaft is coaxially connected to a cutter combining bracket and to a connecting gear;

a rotary cutter disposed on said cutter combining bracket in a length direction;

a fixed cutter for precisely cutting a dry-cotton cloth with said fixed cutter;

a second driven gear in gearing relationship with said connecting gear;

a clamping guide for selectively contacting with said second driven gear so as to clamp said dry cotton cloth from a cotton cloth roll disposed within a roll casing;

a spraying member disposed in said housing, said spraying member including;

a water holding tank communicated with a water pump;

an auxiliary water tank communicated with said water holding tank and disposed under said water holding tank, said auxiliary water tank containing an ultraviolet lamp for sterilizing water and a thermoelectric module element for cooling and warming water;

a nozzle communicated with said auxiliary water tank for spraying water to the dry towel delivered from said cutting member;

a towel winding member disposed in said housing, said towel winding member including;

a second driving gear connected to a third driven gear;

a conveyor belt having a plurality of lugs and rotated by a driven roller and said third driven gear in gearing relationship with said second driving gear; and

a towel winding unit casing having a plurality of small lugs for making a rolled wet towel, whereby the dry cotton cloth is loaded between the clamping guide and a loading roller and is cut by the rotary and fixed cutters of the cutting member, the dry towel is sprayed by the spraying member, and is rolled and is uniformly dampened to produce a wet towel.

2. The automatic wet towel supplying apparatus of claim 1, wherein said clamping guide and a guideplate include a connecting terminal and a contacting terminal for sensing the entry of the dry cotton cloth between said clamping guide and said loading roller.

3. The automatic wet towel supplying apparatus of claim 1, wherein said clamping wet is biased by a first spring about a first shaft pin for angularly moving said clamping guide up by a cam disposed on a flange of the first driven gear so as to stop temporarily the entry of the dry cotton cloth while the cutters are cutting the dry cotton cloth so that cutting precision is increased.

4. The automatic wet towel supplying apparatus of claim 1, wherein said fixed cutter can be smoothly and angularly moved by the biasing force of second spring, and a second shaft pin for preventing the dry cotton cloth from becoming entangled.

5. The automatic wet towel supplying apparatus of claim 1, wherein said auxiliary water tank further contains a radiator, a vapor plate, a cooling fan, and envelope for improving heat transfer.

6. The automatic wet towel supplying apparatus of claim 1, wherein a drain valve is disposed between said water pump and said auxiliary water tank;

said drain valve, water pump, auxiliary water tank, water holding tank and nozzle are connected to each other through supply hoses, said supply hoses being cleaned by operating the drain valve.

7. The automatic wet towel supplying apparatus of claim 1, wherein said plurality of small lugs are disposed on a pad attached to said winding unit casing.

8. The automatic wet towel supplying apparatus of claim 1, wherein said towel winding unit casing is provided with a compressing bracket for uniformly dampening moisture in the wet towel.

9. The automatic wet towel supplying apparatus of claim 1, wherein said first driven gear contains a concave surface for engaging with a switching button of a microswitch so as to be in an ON-position to activate the first driving motor.