Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids – Apparatus – Convertible
Patent
1994-03-01
1995-02-14
Gromada, Denise L.
Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids
Apparatus
Convertible
34603, 34602, F26B 1900
Patent
active
053883446
ABSTRACT:
A miniature clothes dryer is adapted to operate in combination with a portable hair dryer that includes a heating element, an air blower for passing air across the heating element and a hot air outlet nozzle. The clothes dryer comprises a dryer housing having an inlet opening to receive and retain the outlet nozzle of the portable hair dryer. The housing also has an outlet opening for discharging air and a door for the insertion and removal of items of clothing. Mounted for rotation within the housing is a clothes drying drum having walls for supporting and tumbling the clothes which are inserted through the housing door. Drive means with an electric motor are provided for rotating the drum. The drum walls have a plurality of openings for the passage of air and the housing has a plurality of baffles for directing hot air from the nozzle of a hair dryer at the inlet opening to the inside of the drum, and from the inside of the drum to the outlet opening.
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Gromada Denise L.
Milde Jr. Karl F.
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