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US 12,196,346 B2Granted
Dryer exhaust vent assembly
AssigneeBby Solutions, Inc.
InventorsChris Bunzey, Farhad Nourbakhsh
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Abstract
An improved dryer exhaust vent assembly for a clothes dryer is disclosed. The assembly includes an exhaust pipe having a variety of features on its external surface that are constructed and arranged to provide a more secured and easier to obtain engagement with commercially available or customized vent tubing. The assembly may also utilize adjustable band clamps or lever actuated collar clamps to further secure engagement of the vent tubing to the exhaust pipe.
Claims8
A clothes dryer having an improved exhaust pipe assembly extending therefrom, the pipe assembly comprising:
- a tubular clothes dryer exhaust pipe having a first section, a second section and a third section, the second section being a raised lip between the first section and the third section, the first section and the third section having a first outer diameter, the second section having a second outer diameter, the second outer diameter being greater than the first outer diameter, wherein a flange has a length ranging from about 0.125 inches (3.175 mm) to about 0.5 inches (12.7 mm) and defines and angle of about 30 decrees relative to a cylindrical interior wall of the pipe such that the flange acts as a guide engaging and sliding a piece of vent tubing onto and over the pipe which reduces the vent tubing from sliding off of the pipe once properly seated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.