# US 2025/0025017 A1 · Shoe fixing device for clothes dryers

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- Number: US 2025/0025017 A1
- Document ID: US20250025017A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 18/353,199
- Filed: 2023-07-17
- Published: 2025-01-23
- Earliest claimed: 2023-07-17
- Inventors: Lei LI
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20250025017A1

## CPC

- A47L 23/20: Devices or implements for drying footwear, also with heating arrangements (cabinets for shoes A47B61/04)
- D06F 95/008: {Devices for keeping articles together during laundering, e.g. for keeping socks in pairs (D06F95/004 takes precedence); Devices for protecting or shielding certain parts of the articles during laundering, e.g. button protectors}
- F16B 47/00: Suction cups for attaching purposes; Equivalent means using adhesives {(devices using adhesives, suction or magnetism for hanging or supporting pictures or the like A47G1/17; vacuum work holders B25B11/005; anchoring of ships using suction B63B21/27; suction cups for handling glass B65G49/061; load-engaging elements for cranes using suction means B66C1/02)}
- A47L: DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING (brushes A46B; cleaning quantities of bottles or of other hollow articles of one kind B08B9/00; laundry D06F); SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL (cleaning in general B08)
- D06F: LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
- F16B: DEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING (couplings for transmitting rotation F16D)

## Abstract

A shoe fixing device for clothes dryers is composed of a base body and multiple suction cup units, wherein ties are disposed on two sides of the base body and form a limit ring on the surface of the base body to fix a shoe to be dried, and the shoe is limited in the base body; and the multiple suction cup units are arranged along the surface of the base body at intervals, and the whole base body can be attached to the side wall of a drum of a clothes dryer through the multiple suction cup units.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A shoe fixing device for clothes dryers, comprising: a base body and multiple suction cup units, wherein:
the base body is used for carrying shoes, one or more groups of ties are disposed on side faces of the base body, each group of ties comprises a first tie and a second tie, and the first tie and the second tie each have a connecting end and a fixing end;
the connecting end of the first tie is integrally connected to one side of the base body;
the connecting end of the second tie is integrally connected to the other side of the base body, and the second tie is symmetric with the first tie; when the free end of the first tie is connected to the free end of the second tie, a limit ring is formed on a surface of the base body to fix and limit the shoes;
the multiple suction cup units are arranged along an outer surface of the base body at intervals, and each of the suction cup units is fixedly connected to the base body.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The shoe fixing device for clothes dryers according to claim 1, wherein the base body is identical in shape with a sole of the shoes, and comprises a sole part and a heel part which are connected integrally.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The shoe fixing device for clothes dryers according to claim 2, wherein two groups of ties are disposed on the two sides of the base body respectively, wherein one group of ties are located on two sides of the sole part of the base body, and the other group of ties are located on two sides of the heel part of the base body.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The shoe fixing device for clothes dryers according to claim 1, wherein the base body and the ties are made of soft materials and are formed integrally.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The shoe fixing device for clothes dryers according to claim 1, wherein the free end of the first tie and the free end of the second tie are connected through a buckle or a hook-and-loop fastener, or are tied together.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The shoe fixing device for clothes dryers according to claim 1, wherein protrusions are disposed on an inner surface of the base body at intervals.