Paper towel dispenser

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2001-02-22

2002-09-10

King, Anita (Department: 3632)

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Brackets

Article holding means

C211S016000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06446927

ABSTRACT:

TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to paper towel dispensers and more particularly to a paper towel dispenser that includes a towel holding bracket having a pair of spaced, parallel oriented, towel tube support plates connected together by a distance adjustment mechanism including a cavity portion, a slide bar, and a locking screw.
GENERAL SUMMARY DISCUSSION OF INVENTION
It is thus an object of the invention to provide a paper towel dispenser that includes a towel holding bracket having a pair of spaced, parallel oriented, towel tube support plates connected together by a distance adjustment mechanism including a cavity portion, a slide bar, and a locking screw.
Accordingly, a paper towel dispenser is provided. The paper towel dispenser includes a towel holding bracket having a pair of spaced, parallel oriented, towel tube support plates connected together by a distance adjustment mechanism including a cavity portion, a slide bar, and a locking screw; the cavity portion having a first cavity portion end attached to one of the towel tube support plates and a bar insertion opening provided through a second cavity portion end in connection with a bar receiving cavity provided within the cavity portion; the slide bar having a first bar end slidably positionable within the bar receiving cavity through the bar insertion opening and a second bar end connected to the other towel tube support plate; the locking screw being threaded through an internally threaded locking screw aperture formed through a wall of the cavity portion between an exterior surface of the cavity portion and the bar receiving cavity; the locking screw being turnable in a first direction to place a holding force against the slide bar in a manner to hold the slide bar in fixed relation to the cavity portion and, thereby, maintain the pair of spaced, parallel oriented, towel tube support plates at a user selected distance apart to correspond with the length of a particular roll of disposable towels.


REFERENCES:
patent: 3088686 (1963-05-01), Curry
patent: 3593361 (1971-07-01), Welt
patent: 4097002 (1978-06-01), Krueger
patent: 4105168 (1978-08-01), Rutherford
patent: 5662288 (1997-09-01), Chiang

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