Clean towel presenting machine
OwnerLeonard A. Whightinventor
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Abstract
A clean towel presenting machine, which includes a casing having a delivery slot and an intake slot, an endless web of liquid absorbent material contained in the casing, part of which depends from the delivery slot at the front of the casing and the intake slot, the web being adapted, when it is manually pulled out of the delivery slot, to discontinuously present a clean portion and simultaneously retract an essentially equal used portion through the intake slot, cleaning liquid tank and a heater to dry and sterilize the web.
Claims7
Automatic towel machine for cleaning, drying and gradually dispensing an endless web, comprising a substantially closed casing having at the front side a delivery slot and an intake slot for the web, said casing enclosing a web cleaning part, to be filled with cleaning liquid, a web drying part provided with at least one heating element, a condenser for condensing the vaporous cleaning agent, said condenser communicating with the cleaning part for the flow back of condensed cleaning agent to said cleaning part, and casing guide means for guiding the web from the intake slot through said cleaning part and said drying part to said delivery slot, said condenser being in an individual space separated from the drying part by a thermally insulating partition, said drying part and said condenser space communicating with each other at two spaced locations, said drying part and condenser being positioned above said cleaning part so that natural and/or forced circulation of the vaporous cleaning agent may pass through the drying part, the condenser space and said communications.
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