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Article: Throw in the towel Hand dryer blows harder, works faster
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 26, 2000
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Ever since the electric hand dryer was invented 52 years ago in
Chicago, paper towels have been blowing them away in terms of speed
and efficiency.
But a Massachussetts company hopes to change all that with a new
hot-air machine it claims can dry your hands in just 12 seconds-
about the same time it takes to do it the old-fashioned way.
"The main objection with using a hand dryer is that it takes too
long," Excel Dryer Corp. president Denis Gagnon said Tuesday. "We've
solved that problem."
His company claims that its new Xlerator, coming to a restroom
near you sometime this fall, blasts four times as much air per minute
as current models. It also claims to concentrate that air so it stays ...