Towel dispenser

A towel dispenser for vertical mounting, in particular on a wall, for flat strip material, the towel dispenser being of a type with a conveying mechanism for simplified threading-in and for forming a loop of clean strip material suble for drying hands, wherein the conveying mechanism is provided with a pivoting unit rotatable outwards about a stationary shaft and mounted in side panels, and said conveying mechanism is initiated by a closing of the dispenser by a housing cover and/or by a drive member actuable manually, whereby the strip material is capable of rolling off in portions from a supply of clean material by way of a dispensed loop onto a replaceable roller with used material, characterized in that the pivoting unit (2) is provided in an upper region with bearing points (38) for inserting a removable winding roller (5) in two mutually opposed lateral flanges, a recess (10) for forming an additional loop of strip material (T′) is provided between the winding roller (5) and a guide (8, 9, 4) for the strip material (T, T′), above the pivoting unit (2) a fabric receptacle (15) for clean cloth (T) guided in side panels (18, 19) of the dispenser (1) is mounted displaceably in a vertical plane parallel to the said side panels (18, 19), an underside of said fabric receptacle (15) supports a friction roller (6) for loading and driving the winding roller (5) with used cloth (T′), the friction roller being operatively connected to a gearing mechanism provided on one side panel, a vertical guide groove passing into a curved guide groove (20, 39) is formed in at least one of the two side panels (18, 19), and mutay opposed horizontal guide grooves (13), which guide the gearing mechanism (22) with non-positive locking in the vertical plane irrespectively of the increasing diameter of the winding roller (5) around which the used cloth (T′) is wound, are provided in the two lateral flanges (15′) of the fabric receptacle (15).