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US 8,893,399 B2Granted
Lint catching system
AssigneeADR Products, LLC
InventorsDavid George Gregory, Adrienne Francesca Szabady
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Abstract
A lint catching system is provided for a clothes dryer. The lint catching system filters lint from exhaust air expelled from the clothes dryer.
Claims18
A kit to retrofit a clothes dryer which delivers an exhaust air laden with an amount of lint through an output end of a conduit into an ambient environment, said kit comprising:
- a) a lint filter having a filter housing having a flat front panel wall and a flat back panel wall disposed in spaced apart relation connected by corresponding first and second side walls and first and second curved end panel walls disposed in opposed outwardly extending relation each having 180 degree arc;
- b) a housing inlet coupled to said first curved end panel, said housing inlet configured to couple to said output end of said conduit to deliver said exhaust air into lint filter toward said second curved end wall;
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- c) a housing outlet disposed in said flat front panel wall configured to support a filtration material through which said exhaust air flows to egress from said chamber of said filter housing.
1 more element
A method of retrofitting a clothes dryer delivering an exhaust air laden with an amount of lint through an output end of a conduit to the ambient environment, comprising:
- a) obtaining a lint filter having a filter housing having a flat front panel wall and a flat back panel wall disposed in spaced apart relation connected by corresponding first and second side walls and first and second curved end panel walls disposed in opposed outwardly extending relation, said first and second curved end panel walls each having a 180 degree arc disposed in opposed outwardly extending relation, said housing inlet configured to couple to said output end of said conduit to deliver said exhaust air into said lint filter toward said second curved end wall, and a housing outlet disposed in said flat front panel wall configured to support a filtration material through which said exhaust air flows to egress from said chamber of said filter housing;
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- b) coupling said housing inlet to said output end of said conduit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.