Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids – Apparatus – With means to treat gas or vapor
Reexamination Certificate
2007-08-21
2007-08-21
Rinehart, Kenneth (Department: 3749)
Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids
Apparatus
With means to treat gas or vapor
C034S085000, C034S601000, C034S604000, C034S529000, C034S318000, C034S595000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10962949
ABSTRACT:
A laundry drying machine includes a cabinet and a laundry holding drum rotatably supported within the cabinet for rotation. The drum includes a wall that is circumferential relative to the rotation and a drum hatch that is a section of the wall. The drum forms an enclosure together with at least one stationary end surface centred on the axis of rotation of the drum. A motor is connected to drive rotation of the drum and a fan provides a flow of air through the interior of the drum. The drum includes an outlet opening centred on the axis of rotation and an annular filter screen extending from the periphery of the drum outlet and rotating with the drum. The annular screen is connected along one circumferential edge to the drum. There is an annular sliding seal between the other annular edge of the screen and the outlet duct and an annular sliding seal between the outlet duct and the drum external to the annular filter screen.
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Frazerhurst Geoffrey Simon
Guinibert Allen James
Jackson Russell Joseph
Johnson Hugh Griffith
McGregor Bruce Reginald Frank
Fisher & Paykel Appliances Limited
Rinehart Kenneth
Trexler, Bushnell, Giangiorgi & Blackstone & Marr, Ltd
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