Wet sheet dispensing device

A wet sheet dispensing device comprising:

• a casing capable of housing, inside, a sheet cartridge housing a rolled wet sheet provided with a cutting line in a width direction at predetermined intervals, and having a pullout port from which a wet sheet is pulled out, and, including a sheet dispensing port which is formed at a predetermined height position to face downward and through which the wet sheet passes when fed out;
• and
• a sheet feeding mechanism which is provided in the casing, pulls the wet sheet out of the sheet cartridge from the pullout port, and feeds out the wet sheet with a predetermined length for use from the sheet dispensing port, and dispenses the wet sheet with the predetermined length for use in a hanging state from the sheet dispensing port while holding a part located upstream of the sheet dispensing port in terms of a feeding direction of the wet sheet,
• the sheet feeding mechanism comprising:
• a driving roller and a driven roller which are disposed upstream of the sheet dispensing port in terms of the feeding direction of the wet sheet, and face each other to sandwich the wet sheet;
• and
• a drive control mechanism having a motor which rotates the driving roller in such a direction as to feed the wet sheet toward the sheet dispensing port, and having a feed amount control part which controls a feed amount of the wet sheet,
• the feed amount control part comprising:
• a hand hovering sensor;
• a cutting line detecting sensor which is provided in a range from the pullout port of the sheet cartridge to a contact point between the driving roller and the driven roller, and detects a cutting line of the wet sheet;
• a sheet detecting sensor which is provided in a range from the contact point between the driving roller and the driven roller to the sheet dispensing port, and detects presence or absence of the wet sheet in front of a detected cutting line;
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• a motor control part which, based on a detection signal from the hand hovering sensor, outputs a signal to drive the motor from a standby state, and after the cutting line detecting sensor detects the cutting line, when a predetermined time in which the detected cutting line reaches a range from the contact point between the driving roller and the driven roller to a detection position of the sheet detecting sensor has elapsed, outputs a signal to stop the driving of the motor, and
• the sheet detecting sensor detecting the presence of the wet sheet in a state in which the wet sheet in front of the detected cutting line hangs from the sheet dispensing port, and in the standby state, being in a state of not detecting the presence of the wet sheet after a hanging wet sheet is taken by a user;
• wherein, at the sheet dispensing port, a shutter which closes the sheet dispensing port in the standby mode is provided.