Garment drying cabinet and system
OwnerAnthony Casella, Lawrence Butz +2inventors
InventorsAnthony Casella, Lawrence Butz, Robert Cox, Theodore Tinsler
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Abstract
A garment drying cabinet and a garment dryer utilizing the garment drying cabinet. The garment drying cabinet includes a housing through which at least one heater mounting opening and at least one exhaust hole are disposed. At least one heater mount is attached to the housing proximate to each mounting opening and is dimensioned to attach a heater to the housing such that the air directed from the heater is delivered into the interior of the housing. A cabinet door is movably attached to the housing. The garment dryer combines the drying cabinet with at least one heater.
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A garment drying cabinet for use in combination with a source of heated air to form a garment dryer, wherein said garment drying cabinet comprises:
- a housing comprising a back wall, a right side wall, a left side wall, a top wall and a bottom wall defining an interior and an exterior of said housing, wherein at least one heater mounting opening is disposed through said housing, and wherein at least one exhaust hole is disposed through at least one of said bottom wall, said right side wall, and said left side wall of said housing;
- at least one heater mount attached to said housing, wherein said at least one heater mount is dimensioned to attach the source of heated air to the exterior of the housing such that substantially all of the air directed from the source of heated air is delivered into said interior of said housing;
- at least one air diverter mounted in a path of the air directed from the source of heated air;
- and a cabinet door movably attached to said housing;
- wherein said at least one air diverter comprises a right baffle and a left baffle;
- wherein said right baffle is attached to said back wall and said right side wall of said housing and said left baffle is attached to said back wall and said left side wall of said housing so as to define two air ducts and a drying compartment;
- wherein at least one of said right baffle and said left baffle comprises at least one air opening disposed therethrough such that at least one of said two air ducts is in fluid communication with said at least one drying compartment;
- wherein said right baffle and said left baffle are dimensioned and disposed such that a top air opening is formed therebetween;
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- wherein said air ducts are sealed such that a substantial portion of the heated air delivered into said interior of said housing from said source of heated air will flow through said air openings in said right baffle and said left baffle and through said top air opening into said drying compartment.
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The garment drying cabinet as claimed in claim 21 wherein said at least one air diverter comprises a pair of deflectors.
A garment dryer comprising:
- a garment drying cabinet comprising:
- a housing comprising a back wall, a right side wall, a left side wall, a top wall and a bottom wall defining an interior and an exterior of said housing, wherein at least one heater mounting opening is disposed through said housing, and wherein at least one exhaust hole is disposed through at least one of said bottom wall, said right side wall, and said left side wall of said housing;
- at least one heater mount attached to said housing, wherein said at least one heater mount is dimensioned to attach the source of heated air to the exterior of the housing such that substantially all of the air directed from the source of heated air is delivered into said interior of said housing;
- at least one air diverter mounted in a path of heated air from the source of heated air;
- and a cabinet door movably attached to said housing;
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- at least one heater attached to said at least one heater mount
- wherein said housing of said garment drying cabinet further comprises a right angled wall attached to said back wall, said top wall and said right wall, and a left angled wall attached to said back wall, said top wall and said left wall;
- wherein said at least one heater mount comprises a right heater mount disposed through said right angled wall and a left heater mount disposed through said left angled wall;
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- wherein said at least one heater comprises a right heater attached to said right heater mount and a left heater attached to said left heater mount.
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A garment drying cabinet for use in combination with a source of heated air to form a garment dryer, wherein said garment drying cabinet comprises:
- a housing comprising a back wall, a right side wall, a left side wall, a top wall, a bottom wall, a right angled wall attached to said back wall, said top wall and said right wall, and a left angled wall attached to said back wall, said top wall and said left wall, wherein said walls define an interior and an exterior of said housing, wherein at least one heater mounting opening is disposed through said housing, and wherein at least one exhaust hole is disposed through at least one of said bottom wall, said right side wall, and said left side wall of said housing;
- a right heater mount attached to and disposed through said right angled wall of said housing and a left heater mount attached to and disposed through said left angled wall of said housing, wherein right heater mount and said left heater mount are dimensioned to attach the source of heated air to the exterior of the housing such that substantially all of the air directed from the source of heated air is delivered into said interior of said housing;
- at least one air diverter mounted in a path of the air directed from the source of heated air;
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- a cabinet door movably attached to said housing
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.