Dryer vent connection and method
OwnerGreg A. Ireyinventor
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Abstract
A metal plate (52) is connected to a wall (10). Plate (42) includes a vent opening (48) that communicates with vent ducting (18) with the wall (10). A magnetic sheet body (52) is connected to a vent tube (60) located at the back of a clothes dryer (64). The clothes dryer (64) is moved towards the wall (10) and the magnetic sheet body (52) is moved against the metal plate (42). A vent opening (54) in the magnetic sheet body (52) is put into alignment with the vent opening (48) in the metal plate (42). The magnetic sheet body (52) provides a seal between the two vent openings (54, 48).
Claims16
A clothes dryer vent connector and seal, comprising:
- a flexible, magnetic sheet body including an opening that is surrounded by the magnetic sheet body;
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- a length of cylindrical tubing having a first end that is connected to the magnetic sheet body about said opening and an open second end that is spaced outwardly from said magnetic sheet body, said length of tubing extending substantially perpendicular to the magnetic sheet body, and being sized at its second end to engage a vent tube on a clothes dryer.
A clothes dryer vent connection, comprising:
- a metal plate securable to a wall behind a dryer, said plate including an opening that is surrounded by the metal plate;
- a flexible, magnetic sheet body including an opening that is surrounded by the magnetic sheet body;
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- a length of cylindrical tubing having a first end that is connected to the magnetic sheet body about said opening in said magnetic sheet body, and an open second end that is spaced outwardly from said magnetic sheet body, said tubing extending substantially perpendicular to the magnetic sheet body, and being sized at its second end to engage a vent tube on a clothes dryer and place the magnetic sheet body closely adjacent the rear of the clothes dryer,
- whereby the clothes dryer can be pushed towards the wall so as to move the magnetic sheet body into sealing contact with the metal plate on the wall and move the opening in the magnetic sheet body into alignment with the opening in the metal plate.
A method of connecting a vent tube at the back of a clothes dryer to vent ducting in a wall behind the clothes dryer, comprising:
- providing a metal plate that includes a vent opening that is surrounded by the metal plate;
- securing the metal plate to the wall with the vent opening in the metal plate in alignment with the vent ducting in the wall;
- providing a flexible, magnetic sheet body including a vent opening that is surrounded by the magnetic sheet body, and a length of cylindrical tubing having a first end that is connected to the magnetic sheet body about said vent opening in the body and an open second end that is spaced from and extends substantially perpendicular to the magnetic sheet body;
- positioning the length of cylindrical tubing on the vent tube of the clothes dryer with its second end directed towards the clothes dryer;
- moving the length of cylindrical tubing and the flexible, magnetic sheet body towards the dryer until the cylindrical tubing is on the vent tube and the flexible, magnetic sheet body is closely adjacent the back of the dryer;
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- moving the clothes dryer towards the metal plate and the wall, and guiding it to move the flexible, magnetic sheet body into contact with the metal plate, whereby magnetic attraction will secure the flexible, magnetic sheet body to the metal plate and provide a substantially sealed connection between the vent tube at the back of the clothes dryer and the opening into the vent ducting in the wall behind the clothes dryer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.