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Paper towel dispenser

  • US 6,446,927 B1
  • Filed: 02/22/2001
  • Issued: 09/10/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A paper towel dispenser consisting:

  • a towel holding bracket having a pair of spaced, parallel oriented, towel tube support plates connected together by a distance adjustment mechanism including a cavity portion having two for mounting the paper towel dispenser to a wall a slide bar, and a locking screw;

    the cavity portion having a first cavity portion end attached to one of the towel tube support plates and a bar insertion opening provided through a second cavity portion end in connection with a bar receiving cavity provided within the cavity portion;

    the slide bar having a first bar end slidably positionable within the bar receiving cavity through the bar insertion opening and a second bar end connected to the other towel tube support plate;

    the locking screw being threaded through an internally threaded locking screw aperture formed through a wall of the cavity portion between an exterior surface of the cavity portion and the bar receiving cavity;

    the locking screw being turnable in a first direction to place a holding force against the slide bar in a manner to hold the slide bar in fixed relation to the cavity portion and, thereby, maintain the pair of spaced, parallel oriented, towel tube support plates at a user selected distance apart to correspond with the length of a particular roll of disposable towels.

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