A47K 10/26
Mechanically-driven towel dispensers
Official title: Mechanically-driven towel dispensers (A47K10/28 takes precedence; for paper towels or toilet-paper from a web A47K10/34; for paper towels or toilet paper from a store of single sheets, e.g. stacked, A47K10/44)
A47K10/26 (Mechanically-driven towel dispensers) appears on 18 US grants and 17 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A47K- Granted patents
- 18
- Published applications
- 17
- Assignees
- 4
- Inventors
- 21
- Latest grant
- 6 May 2025
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| 2025 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Towel dispenser6 May 2025US 12,290,213 B2
- Automatic wet wipe paper-towel dispenser25 Jun 2024US 12,016,499 B2
- Adaptive towelette dispenser10 Jan 2023US 11,547,251 B2
- Automatic roll transfer dispenser9 Aug 2022US 11,406,231 B2Dispensing Dynamics International
- Sheet product level sensor calibration and indication systems and methods28 Dec 2021US 11,206,957 B2GPCP IP Holdings LLC
- Towel dispenser17 Jul 2025US 2025/0228414 A1
- Automatic wet wipe paper-towel dispenser23 Mar 2023US 2023/0087888 A1
- Towel dispenser5 Jan 2023US 2023/0000293 A1
- Hand Drying Apparatus with Squeezing and Dispensing Arrangement2 Sep 2021US 2021/0267421 A1
- Adaptive towelette dispenser27 May 2021US 2021/0153700 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Automatic web transfer mechanism for flexible sheet dispenser134US 5,526,973 AGeorgia-Pacific Corporation · 1996
- Automatic web transfer mechanism for flexible sheet dispenser65US 5,375,785 AGeorgia-Pacific Corporation · 1994
- Sheet product dispenser35US 8,616,489 B2Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP · 2013
- Sheet product dispenser32US 8,777,149 B2Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP · 2014
- Automatic wet towel supplying apparatus25US 6,343,491 B12002