Apparatus for discharging tissue
AssigneeElix Co., Ltd.
InventorJin Yong Lee
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Abstract
An apparatus for discharging tissue that is folded several times and stacked is provided. The apparatus includes a cartridge that holds stacked tissue and has a through hole at one end, and a holding member that is disposed adjacent to the through hole of the cartridge and pivots on an axis to grasp and remove tissues one at a time from the top of the stack through an arm. The inventive apparatus allows a user to easily replace tissue and check the amount of tissue used and the amount left to use through visual means. The apparatus virtually eliminates the problem of tissue dispensing failure, and has increased precision and reliability and reduced dispensing time over conventional apparatuses.
Claims13
A tissue dispensing apparatus for dispensing multiply folded tissues from a stack of multiple tissues comprising:
- a cartridge for holding the stack and including a through hole at one end;
- a holding member disposed adjacent to the through hole of the cartridge and including an arm for grasping and removing the tissues one by one from the stack by pivoting around a central axis of the holding member;
- a conveyor belt driven by a plurality of rollers, extending to a tissue tray positioned at an opposite side of the cartridge and conveying the removed tissue to the tissue tray;
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- a controller controlling the driving of the tissue dispensing apparatus comprising the cartridge, the holding member and the conveyor belt,
- wherein the holding member is installed to reciprocate around the axis between the through hole and the upper surface of the conveyor belt by the forward and reverse rotation of a motor, the arm is formed in grasping and opening pincer structure, and the control unit enables the arm to open at the through hole of the cartridge and hold tissues from top or bottom surface of the stack of tissues with pivoting of the holding member caused by the motor's driving, and then to open again and deposit tissues onto the conveyor belt with further pivoting of the holding member caused by driving of the motor.
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