US 11,672,383 B2
Wet or dry paper towel dispenser
Nicholas Stanca, Westlake, OH (US); Sergey V Makarov, Solon, OH (US); William Sebastian, Northfield, OH (US); David J Boll, Avon, OH (US); and Michael Wetzer, Tampa, FL (US)
Assigned to Dual Strategies, LLC, Tampa, FL (US)
Filed by Dual Strategies, LLC, Tampa, FL (US)
Filed on Mar. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/194,098.
Prior Publication US 2022/0279988 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. A47K 10/38 (2006.01)
CPC A47K 10/38 (2013.01) [A47K 2010/389 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wet or dry paper towel dispenser, comprising:
a housing including a base portion, a paper towel roll holding portion, and a paper towel advancing and wetting portion, wherein the paper towel roll holding portion is configured to support a paper towel roll vertically;
a paper towel advancing mechanism and a liquid dispensing mechanism at least portion of each disposed in the paper towel advancing and wetting portion, the paper towel advancing mechanism configured to receive sheet product of the paper towel roll and advance a portion of the sheet product of the paper towel roll laterally, the liquid dispensing mechanism configured to selectively wet the portion of the sheet product of the paper towel roll as the paper towel advancing mechanism advances the portion of the sheet product of the paper roll laterally;
a liquid dispensing mechanism inludes a fluid reservoir and the housing includes a fluid reservoir holding portion configured to removable receive the fluid reservoir to fluidly connect the fluid reservoir to the rest of the liquid dispending mechanism, the fluid reservoir holding portion including a fluid reservoir reader and the fluid reservoir including an identification such that, when the fluid reservoir is installed in the fluid reservoir holding portion, the fluid reservoir reader reads the identification and, thereby, identify a type of fluid in the fluid reservoir.