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Clothes dryer

US4516335A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 30, 1983
Grant dateMay 14, 1985
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Expiry dateMar 30, 2003

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
  • CPC primaryD06F58/02
  • WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A clothes dryer comprising: a cabinet; a horizontal type rotary drum formed with a circular opening in its end face which is generally perpendicular to the peripheral wall of said drum; a drum supporting disc slidably fitted in the circular opening of said end face to support said horizontal type rotary drum and arranged in and supported by said cabinet generally coextensively with said end face, said drum supporting disc being formed with an air inlet and an air outlet; heater means; and blower means for supplying the hot air, which has been heated by said heater means, into said horizontal type rotary drum through said air inlet and for discharging the air in said horizontal type rotary drum to the outside of said rotary drum through said air outlet.

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