Plastic bearing dryer idler

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1995-04-12

1997-06-10

Bennett, Henry A.

Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids

Apparatus

Rotary drums or receptacles

34602, 34108, F26B 1102

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056364539

ABSTRACT:
An idler pulley assembly for tensioning a belt drive for a clothes dryer or other belt driven appliance. The idler pulley assembly provides a spring steel support anchored to a base of the clothes dryer, a Y-shaped bracket connected to the spring steel support and holding an idle pulley at an opposite end. The idle pulley is mounted on an open cross section, C-shaped shaft which is fixed at opposite arms of the Y-shaped bracket. An oil impregnated wick is inserted into the shaft which deposits oil on an inside surface of the idler pulley journaling the shaft.

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