Dryer air circulation system and method
OwnerBradley J. Goemansinventor
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Abstract
A novel clothes dryer, and an adaptor for a conventional clothes dryer, are disclosed. The novel clothes dryer and the adaptor enable a method for operating a clothes dryer located inside a building. The method comprises the steps of drawing air directly from outside the building into a dryer inlet, heating the air to produce heated air, circulating the heated air among moist textiles in a dryer drum to evaporate moisture from the textiles to produce moist heated air, and then venting the moist heated air from a dryer air outlet directly to outside the building.
Claims10
A method for operating a hot-air clothes dryer located inside a building, comprising the steps of:
- (a) drawing air directly from outside the building into a dryer inlet;
- (b) heating the air to produce heated air;
- (c) circulating the heated air among moist textiles in a dryer drum to evaporate moisture from the textiles to produce moist heated air;
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- (d) venting the moist heated air from a dryer air outlet directly to outside the building.
A hot-air clothes dryer, comprising:
- a dryer air inlet connectible in fluid communication along an intake air passage with an inlet aperture disposed outside of the building so as to receive air directly from outside a building;
- the dryer air inlet being in fluid communication along a heated path with a drying chamber;
- a dryer air outlet in fluid communication with the drying chamber and connectible in fluid communication along an output air passage with an outlet aperture disposed outside of the building;
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- a pump for moving air from the inlet aperture, along the intake air passage to the dryer air inlet, along the heated path and through the drying chamber to the dryer air outlet, and along the output air passage to the outlet aperture;
- wherein the output air passage is isolated from the intake air passage.
An adaptor for a hot-air clothes dryer, comprising:
- an adaptor housing securable over an air intake region of the dryer to be in sealed fluid communication with an air inlet of the dryer;
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- an adaptor housing inlet connectible in sealed fluid communication with an air intake linkage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.