Clothes dryer
OwnerRoberta J. Hortoninventor
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Abstract
An improvement on conventional clothes dryers including a spray nozzle, a control valve, and a water line coupled to an existing water source. The touch-up spray is used for removal of wrinkles from clothing and fabrics and permanent press clothing in particular without removing a garment's factory set creases. The apparatus may also include a water heating unit for spraying water of a selected temperature or steam. The apparatus may further be provided with a liquid additive dispenser for dispensing static electricity removal agents and clothes softening fluids.
Claims5
An improved clothes drying apparatus of the type in which clothes or other fabrics are tumbled in a substantially cylindrical tumbler which is rotatably mounted about a horizontal axis within an external housing having a stationary clothes retaining back wall and an access door, wherein the improvement comprises:
- a liquid supply source;
- a liquid discharge nozzle operable to spray fabric material within the tumbler, said nozzle affixed to the front surface of the clothes retaining back wall substantially flush with said surface;
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- liquid conveyance means extending between the interior and exterior of said tumbler through said backwall and connecting said supply source with said nozzle.
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