All weather absorbent towel dispenser
View Patent ↗A water resistant absorbent towel dispenser. The dispenser includes a container having top, bottom and side walls housing a supply of absorbent towels, and an exterior handle for facilitating transport of the dispenser. The top wall includes a finger-accessible opening through which absorbent towels may be withdrawn. In certain embodiments, the top wall is convex upwardly, but is flexible to enable it to be depressed when dispensers are stacked vertically so as to come into load bearing contact with the towel supply. In some embodiments, the top and bottom walls have interlocking configurations to add lateral stability to vertically stacked dispensers.
1. A disposable towel dispensing unit comprising a water-resistant container having bottom, top and side walls, and a roll of disposable towels carried within the container, said top wall being convex upwardly and vertically resilient to enable it to be depressed into a position in which it is supported by said roll of towels upon application of an exterior force, the container having an opening in its top wall providing finger access to towels in the interior of the container, wherein the top wall and bottom wall have exterior surfaces with respective nesting configurations facilitating stable vertical stacking of a plurality of said containers, and wherein said nesting configurations comprise ridges formed on the exterior surface of the top wall and a ridge-receiving recess formed on the exterior surface of the bottom wall.
2. An absorbent towel dispensing unit comprising a water-resistant container including a body having bottom and side walls and a handle, the body being formed by molding as a unit from thermoplastic material, a vertically resilient, upwardly convex lid movably attached at its periphery to said body to enable the lid to vertically move as a unit with respect to the body, the lid having an opening sized to enable finger access to the container, and a roll of absorbent toweling housed within said container, said roll having a vertical axis and a height enabling it to be contacted in a load bearing relationship by the lid when another dispenser unit is stacked on the lid.
3. The disposable towel dispensing unit of claim 2 wherein outer surfaces of said lid and body have respective nesting configurations comprising ridges and a ridge receiving recess facilitating vertical stacking of a plurality of said units.