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US 4,392,028 AGranted
Pay telephone with sanitized tissue dispenser
OwnerRichard L. Saxtoninventor
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Abstract
A pay telephone with sanitized tissue dispenser. A roll of individualized and interconnected sanitized tissues are rotatably mounted to a spindle. An electrical motor is operable upon deposit of a coin into a telephone to rotate the spindle dispensing a tissue through an opening in the telephone. Alternatively, the sanitized tissues are arranged in a stack held by a spring-biased carrier urging the uppermost tissue against a solenoid actuated pusher arm operable to force the uppermost tissue through the tissue-dispensing opening of the telephone.
Claims13
The combination of:
- pay telephone means including a telephone with coin-receiving means operable to issue a signal upon receipt of a coin, said pay telephone means further including a tissue-dispensing opening;
- a supply of sanitized tissue;
- storage means within said pay telephone means to receive and hold said supply of sanitized tissue;
- and
- dispensing means within said pay telephone means operably associated with said coin-receiving means and said supply of sanitized tissue and operable to force a tissue from said supply into said opening upon receipt of said signal, and wherein:
- said dispensing means includes an electrically operated rotatable spindle;
- and
- said supply of sanitized tissue includes a roll of sanitized tissue removably mounted to said spindle.
5 more elements
The combination of:
- pay telephone means including a telephone with coin-receiving means operable to issue a signal upon receipt of a coin, said pay telephone means further including a tissue-dispensing opening;
- a supply of sanitized tissue;
- storage means within said pay telephone means to receive and hold said supply of sanitized tissue;
- and
- dispensing means within said pay telephone means operably associated with said coin-receiving means and said supply of sanitized tissue and operable to force a tissue from said supply into said opening upon receipt of said signal, and wherein:
- said supply of sanitized tissues includes a stack of individual tissues;
- and
- said dispensing means includes an electrically operated pusher arm with said dispensing means operable upon receipt of said signal to move said arm against one of said tissues in said stack moving a tissue into said opening.
5 more elements
The combination of:
- pay telephone means including a tissue dispensing opening and a tissue dispensing signal generator means which is operable to generate a tissue dispensing signal;
- a supply of sanitized tissues;
- storage means within said pay telephone means to receive and hold said supply of sanitized tissues;
- dispensing means within said pay telephone means operably associated with said tissue dispensing signal generator means and said supply of sanitized tissue and operable to force a tissue from said supply into said opening upon receipt of said signal;
- and wherein:
- said dispensing means includes an electrically operated rotatable spindle;
- and,
- said supply of sanitized tissue includes a roll of sanitized tissue removably mounted to said spindle.
5 more elements
The combination of:
- pay telephone means including a tissue dispensing opening and a tissue dispensing signal generator means which is operable to generate a tissue dispensing signal;
- a supply of sanitized tissues;
- storage means within said pay telephone means to receive and hold said supply of sanitized tissues;
- dispensing means within said pay telephone means operably associated with said tissue dispensing signal generator means and said supply of sanitized tissue and operable to force a tissue from said supply into said opening upon receipt of said signal;
- said supply of sanitized tissues includes a stack of individual tissues;
- and,
- said dispensing means includes an electrically operated pusher arm with dispensing means operable upon receipt of said signal to move said arm against one of said tissues in said stack moving a tissue into said opening.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.