Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids – Apparatus – With apparatus using centrifugal force
Reexamination Certificate
1999-08-30
2001-02-13
Wilson, Pamela (Department: 3749)
Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids
Apparatus
With apparatus using centrifugal force
C034S236000, C034S621000, C034S665000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06185834
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The centrifugally rotating type dress drying hanger structure of the invention is a clothes hanger that includes a motor for rotating the hanger. The motor causes the hanger to make unidirectional or to make bi-directional periodic positive-negative rotations. The rotational centrifugal force is particularly utilized to swing water off the clothes due to the wind-drying effect caused by the air flow and centrifugal force.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Washed and spun-dry clothes are usually hung for sun-drying or wind-drying or dried by an electric clothes dryer. The natural wind or sun drying takes a longer time and is more troublesome if the weather condition varies, and the electric type clothes dryer is also disadvantageous due to its large power consumption, the tendency to more easily harm the clothes, and difficulty in removing water in highly humid air.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The main purpose of the invention is to provide a centrifugally rotating type clothes drying hanger structure. The circular edge of the motor driven rotor is installed with hanging holes, slots, hooks, elastic clamps, rings, support frames, or other mechanisms to allow for directly hanging clothes or indirectly coupling with clothes frames for holding clothes, and which are arranged to swing the directly held or hanging clothes, or the indirectly hanging clothes frames for a wind-drying effect. As a result, the drying hanger structure of the invention can substitute for the unpredictable natural wind-drying or the traditional electric heated air drying to wind-dry the clothes, saving not only electric power but also leaving the clothes unharmed.
The further design of the invention is that a ring shape or cone shape water-proof cover can be installed on the motor stator, motor hanging device, or fixing body for installing the hanging device, or the water-proof cover can be a self-standing structure installed integrally with the driving motor, rotational output device, motor control device, etc., the water-proof cover preventing water spattering when rotating the clothes or providing a water collecting function, and the water-proof cover can be further provided with vent holes or installed with an operable window type cover to provide a venting effect for the water-proof cover and to allow for convenient clothes intake and removal.
A still further design of the invention is that an auxiliary electric heater device or an ultraviolet lamp can be installed to simulate the sun sterilization effect, to thereby let the clothes obtain the double effect of wind-drying and warm drying simultaneously.
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