Towel apparatus
OwnerJames W. Schwartzinventor
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Abstract
A towel apparatus which handles an endless towel within a cabinet and subjects the same to cleaning and drawing, making use of a low vapor pressure chemical type solvent.
Claims7
Apparatus for dispensing rolled fabric toweling including a cabinet and a clean toweling storage compartment, means for allowing manual withdrawal of lengths of clean toweling from said clean toweling storage compartment and said cabinet, and electric motor driven means for retracting lengths of use toweling to within said cabinet, a slot located in the surface of said cabinet through which said toweling is caused to pass upon retraction of said lengths of use toweling to within said cabinet, the dimension of the opening of said slot in a direction transverse to the surface of toweling sections lying within said slot being no larger than 0.070 inches, and the external surfaces of said slot adjacent said opening being abruptly joined to the surfaces of said slot generally parallel to said towel sections lying within said slot.
Apparatus for dispensing rolled fabric toweling including a cabinet and a clean toweling storage compartment means for allowing manual withdrawal of lengths of clean toweling from said clean toweling storage compartment and said cabinet, and electric motor driven means for retracting lengths of used toweling to within said cabinet, towel straightening means consisting of two smooth surfaced plate members in spaced relation such that the separation of substantial portions of adjacent surface of said plate members is less than two times the thickness of the toweling, the leading edge of said plate members being smooth and being of a shape that extends in a trailing direction along both sides of a central point, the arrangement where portions of said toweling is caused to pass between said plate members.
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