Device for dispensing moistened hot cleansing tissues

Claim 3

A device according to claim 1, wherein an operating lever in the form of a bell crank is pivotally mounted within said frame, return spring means being provided for biasing said operating lever towards a non-operational position, and said operating lever being manually actuable into its operational position, stop means being mounted within said frame for limiting the pivotal movement of said operating lever, a rocker arm being pivotally mounted within said frame operatively connected to said operating lever, said rocker arm carrying a throttling bar fixedly thereon at a location spaced from the pivot axis of said rocker arm, means being provided for operatively connecting said operating lever and rocker arm such that when said operating lever is biased into said non-operational position said rocker arm is thereby pivoted and said throttling bar is oscillated to said first position whereby it is urged against said hot water discharge tube to prevent the discharge of hot water therefrom, said connecting means being adapted, upon pivotal movement of said operating lever into the operational position thereof, to pivot said rocker arm and thereby oscillate said throttling bar to said second position whereby it is urged against said water supply tube to prevent the flow of relatively cool water from said reservoir to said hot water heater.

Claim 4

A device according to claim 2, wherein said means for operatively connecting said operating lever and rocker arm comprises a tension spring connected at one end thereof to one arm of the bell crank and at the other end thereof to the free end of said rocker arm, and a force accumulating lever mounted in said frame pivotable into the arcuate path of movement of said free end of said rocker arm and engageable with said operating lever, said force accumulating lever having a recess formed in the underside thereof for engagement of one shoulder of said recess with said free end of said rocker arm, positioning spring means being provided for biasing said force accumulating lever into said arcuate path of the rocker arm, the relative strengths of said return spring, tension spring and positioning spring and the disposition of said force accumulating lever relative to said arcuate path of the rocker arm and said operating lever being such that during the pivotal movement of said rocker arm and the consequent oscillation of said throttling bar from said second position towards said first position the movement of the free end of said rocker arm is momentarily arrested by engagement with said one shoulder of the recess, continued pivotal movement of said operating lever under the influence of said return spring effecting an engagement of said force accumulating lever by said operating lever, whereby said force accumulating lever is caused to pivot against the force of said positioning spring and the free end of said rocker arm is permitted to continue its movement to oscillate the throttling bar towards said first position, the momentary interruption of such movement enabling an accumulation of spring force to develop in said tension spring so as to rapidly oscillate the throttling bar to said first position and fully constrict the passageway of said hot water discharge tube.

Claim 5

A device according to claim 3, wherein a retainer plate is vertically carried by said frame within said hot water supply chamber, said operating lever being pivotally mounted at one side of said retainer plate, said rocker arm being pivotally mounted on the other side of said retainer plate, said retainer plate having an arcuate aperture therein, said free end of the rocker arm having a bent portion which extends through said arcuate aperture, and said tension spring being connected between said bent end and said one arm of the bell crank which constitutes said operating lever.

Claim 6

A device according to claim 1, wherein a stopper element is mounted on said frame and both of said water supply and discharge tubes extend through an aperture in said stopper element, said oscillatable throttling means being cooperable with said stopper element in the constriction of the passageways in said tubes.

Claim 7

A device according to claim 1, wherein said hot water discharge tube is adjustably mounted in said hot water heater so as to permit regulation of the volume of water to be discharged from said heater upon actuation of said operating lever.

Claim 8

A device according to claim 1, wherein said hot water heater comprises a tank, a vortex generator plate being mounted within said tank in spaced relation to the bottom thereof and adapted to produce an upwardly flowing vortex of water, the outlet end of said water supply tube terminating below said plate and the upper portion of said hot water discharge tube extending through said plate such that the upper end thereof opens into the section of the tank above said plate, whereby the water discharged from said tank is the relatively hot water within same and the cool water entering said tank from said reservoir is prevented from directly mixing with the relatively hot water therein.