Automatic towel dispenser

Automatic towel dispenser having a box-shaped housing provided with a washing chamber and a drying chamber for an endless towel to be guided therethrough, an outlet opening and an inlet opening formed in said housing, the towel having a cleaned partial length thereof available for respective use and being guidable over a locking device for limiting the clean partial length of the towel to be dispensed and guided outside the housing between said outlet opening and said inlet opening formed in the housing, a first storage chamber, as viewed in travel direction of the towel, located in the housing between the inlet opening and the washing chamber for variably piling up therein a plurality of used partial lengths of the towel, and a second storage chamber, as viewed in the travel direction of the towel, located in the housing between the drying chamber and the outlet opening for variably piling up therein a plurality of cleaned partial lengths of the towel, and means being activatable, upon the emptying to a given extent of the cleaned partial lengths of the towel in the second storage chamber, for passing used partial lengths of the towel through the washing and drying chamber after start-up of a washing and drying operation and for depositing cleaned partial lengths of the towel in the second storage chamber, the improvement therein comprisng a plurality of guide rollers disposed in a respective upper and lower region of both the washing chamber and the drying chamber for guiding the endless towel in a multiplicity of loops, the washing chamber comprising at least one washing section and at least one rinsing section, said sections being separated by respective partitions, an air shaft separated by a partition from said drying chamber, heating means and blower means both disposed in the drying chamber, said blower means, said heating means and said air shaft cooperating to produce a circulating dry air current flowing through the drying chamber, said drying chamber being located above said washing chamber, the outlet opening for the clean partial length of the towel being located near the top of the housing, said drying chamber having a passageway opening for the endless towel into said second storage chamber, a roller pair for advancing the endless towel being disposed in said drying chamber adjacent said passageway opening, and an ironing device located immediately upstream of said roller pair in travel direction of the endless towel.

Automatic towel dispenser having a box-shaped housing provided with a mutually separated washing chamber and a drying chamber for an endless towel to be guided therethrough, an outlet opening and an inlet opening formed in said housing, the towel having a cleaned partial length thereof available for respective use and being guidable over a locking device for limiting the clean partial length of the towel to be dispensed and guided outside the housing between said outlet opening and said inlet opening formed in the housing, a first storage chamber, as viewed in travel direction of the towel, located in the housing between the inlet opening and the washing chamber for variably piling up therein a plurality of used partial lengths of the towel, and a second storage chamber, as viewed in travel direction of the towel, located in the housing between the drying chamber and the outlet opening for variably piling up therein a plurality of cleaned partial lengths of the towel, and means being activatable, upon the emptying to a given extent of the cleaned partial lengths of the towel in the second storage chamber, for passing used partial lengths of the towel through the washing and drying chamber after start-up of a washing and drying operation and for depositing cleaned partial lengths of the towel in the second storage chamber, the improvement therein comprising a plurality of guide rollers disposed in a respective upper and lower region of both the washing chamber and the drying chamber for guiding the endless towel in a multiplicity of loops, the washing chamber comprising at least one washing section and at least one rinsing section, said sections being separated by respective partitions, and air shaft separated by a partition from said drying chamber, heating means and blower means both disposed in the drying chamber, said blower means, said heating means and said air shaft cooperating to produce a circulating dry air current flowing through the drying chamber, and means for depositing and stacking the cleaned and dried partial lengths of the towel and the used partial lengths of the towel from above into the respective second and first storage chambers and for withdrawing them upwardly from below the stored supply disposed thereabove, and including respective overflows disposed within the individual washing and rinsing sections of the washing chamber, and electrically driven washing rollers disposed below the respective guide rollers at the upper region of the washing chamber and substantially at the level of said overflows between the individual loops of the endless towel.