Towel dispenser for a hygiene station for human hand hygiene, and hygiene station

Abstract

A dispensing device for integration into a hygiene station with hand towels for single use, having a housing with a dispensing opening for dispensing hand towels, a first hand towel store which, in the mounted state, is received in the housing and which, in the original state, has a plurality of hand towels to be dispensed, and a second hand towel store received in the housing and which, in the original state, has a plurality of hand towels to be dispensed. The device incudes a monitoring device that monitors a state of the first and/or second hand towel store and/or an automatic change mechanism for automatically changing from dispensing hand towels from the first hand towel store to dispensing from the second hand towel store, or vice versa. A hygiene station having at least one hygiene product dispensing device for hand hygiene and/or handcare products is also provided.

1 . A dispensing device for integration into a hygiene station for human hand hygiene, for dispensing hand towels, the dispensing device comprising:
 a housing which has at least one dispensing opening for dispensing hand towels;   a first hand towel store which, in a mounted state, is received in the housing and which, in an original state, has a plurality of the hand towels to be dispensed;   a second hand towel store which, in a mounted state, is received in the housing and which, in an original state, has a plurality of the hand towels to be dispensed; and   at least one of a) a monitoring device configured to monitor at least one state of the first hand towel store and/or of the second hand towel store or b) an automatic change mechanism for automatically changing from dispensing hand towels from the first hand towel store to dispensing hand towels from the second hand towel store, or vice versa.   
     
     
         2 . The dispensing device as claimed in  claim 1 , the first hand towel store is configured as a first endless roll and in that the second hand towel store is configured as a second endless roll. 
     
     
         3 . The dispensing device as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the dispensing device is configured as at least one dispensing module for modular integration into the hygiene station. 
     
     
         4 . The dispensing device as claimed in  claim 2 , wherein the housing has at least one drive mechanism, which is coupled to at least one of the first endless roll or the second endless roll. 
     
     
         5 . The dispensing device as claimed in  claim 4 , wherein the drive mechanism comprises a rotary drive mechanism and is coupled to the first endless roll, the drive mechanism being adapted and configured such that one said hand towel can respectively be dispensed sequentially through the dispensing opening by respectively defined rotating of the first endless roll. 
     
     
         6 . The dispensing device as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the monitoring device is provided and has at least one counting unit, by which a number of hand towels already dispensed are counted. 
     
     
         7 . The dispensing device as claimed in  claim 6 , wherein the counting unit has at least one counting sensor, with two neighboring ones of the hand towels in a rolled state on the first endless roll being connected to one another by at least one perforation line, the at least one perforation line having at least one numerical marking which is registerable by the at least one counting sensor. 
     
     
         8 . The dispensing device as claimed in  claim 7 , wherein the monitoring device has at least one position sensor and the perforation line has at least one position marking, which is registerable by the position sensor such that the drive mechanism is stoppable in response to at least one said position marking that is registered. 
     
     
         9 . The dispensing device as claimed in  claim 6 , wherein the automatic change mechanism is provided, and the dispensing device further comprises at least one control and/or regulating unit connected to the monitoring device and to the automatic change mechanism, the control and/or regulating unit being configured such that, in response to a threshold value of dispensed hand towels counted by the counting unit, the control and/or regulating unit controls and/or regulates the automatic change mechanism to change the first hand towel store and the second hand towel store from one to the other. 
     
     
         10 . The dispensing device as claimed in  claim 9 , further comprising at least one data transmission interface connected to the control and/or regulating unit, the control and/or regulating unit being configured such that, in response to the counted threshold value of dispensed hand towels, the control and/or regulating unit generates an order signal for a new hand towel store and transmits the order signal to the data transmission interface. 
     
     
         11 . The dispensing device as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the first hand towel store in the original state is configured identically to the second hand towel store in the original state. 
     
     
         12 . A hygiene station for human hand hygiene, comprising:
 at least one hygiene product dispensing device for dispensing at least one hand hygiene and/or handcare product; and   at least one dispensing device as claimed in  claim 1 .