Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8186075 | Forced air flow electric shoe dryer A small, portable electric shoe dryer that includes an elongated, narrow outer housing with three longitudinally aligned heating elements and a fan and motor assembly mounted on one end. Formed on the outer housing and around the fan and motor assembly is a fan vent... | 05/29/2012 |
| 7389596 | Shoe drying rack A shoe drying rack to fit a dryer's drum, comprised of an open container divided into two mirror imaged halves joined together by an adjustable connector arm. In one embodiment, the adjustable connector arm is a telescopic arm, allowing for the sizing of the shoe dr... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7235109 | Apparatus for processing garments including a water and air system A garment processing apparatus is disclosed. The garment processing apparatus may include a manifold having a plurality of arms. Each of the arms may be configured to discharge air. A cabinet may be configured to support a plurality of garments with each of the garm... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7175297 | In-grade light fixture with leveling and alignment mechanisms, installation features and anti-condensation valve An in-grade light fixture, comprising a below grade light fixture having a light opening substantially at grade level. An optical chamber is arranged within the light fixture housing and holding a light source generating light that passes through the light opening. ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7146748 | System for drying shopping carts The system for drying shopping carts dries a large number of wet shopping carts. The carts are loaded onto a conveyor belt. Side dryers located on either side of the conveyor belt initially dry the carts. The carts are passed under a freestanding arch having support... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7121017 | Dryer apparatus for boots and gloves A drying apparatus including a body portion including an upwardly extending drying member which has an upper portion for holding an item of apparel, and a platform coupled to the body portion. The platform can be moved into a first, generally horizontal position ove... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7089768 | Washing machine with conveyor device A cabinet-shaped washing machine includes a conveyor belt to move laundry goods in circulation, with the laundry goods passing through various successive steps of the laundry cycle. Following the actual washing process, a downstream pre-dehumidification as well as a... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7043854 | Portable shoe, boot and garment drying system A dryer for insertion into a cavity in a garment, boot or shoe, including a framework with a heated surface on one side of the framework, with the heated surface forming at least one side of an exit airflow passageway to create and induce drying airflow through the ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7020983 | Method and apparatus for drying items of clothing Instead of desiccating articles of clothing by spinning the articles, the method and apparatus according to the invention removes moisture from these articles by pressing or drying them with the aid of hot air. Desiccation of the clothing articles occurs gently and ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7014052 | Wall hanger and spacer for skateboards and scooters A small flat wall mountable panel having a flat visual display surface has two spaced apart upwardly arched hooks mounted on backstop spacers and aligned horizontally to receive a skateboard wheel mount or a scooter handle bar therein. An outwardly arched spacer arm... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6966126 | Laundry drier with removable filter A laundry drier includes a filter is disposed removably in the air duct carrying the process air and is held in an at least two-part foldable frame. To extend its functionality with a view to the binding of odors from the laundry items, the filter contains a charcoa... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6962004 | Dryer apparatus for boots and gloves A drying apparatus including a body portion including an upwardly extending drying member which has an upper portion for holding an item of apparel, and a platform coupled to the body portion. The platform can be moved into a first, generally horizontal position ove... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6935944 | Air systems for vehicles A vehicle with an air system for directing a flow of air at the rear of a head and/or neck of a person occupying the vehicle and/or for directing a flow of air to a space under a roof or canopy of the vehicle to dissipate hot air beneath the roof or canopy. ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6928752 | Combination tumble and cabinet dryer A combination tumble and cabinet dryer appliance includes a housing with a tumble dryer and a cabinet dryer therein. The tumble dryer and cabinet dryer are operable independently of one another. Separate sources of hot air are provided to each of the tumble and cabi... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6910292 | Clothes drying cabinet with improved air distribution A clothes drying cabinet is provided with an internal compartment for receiving clothes and having a plurality of air inlet nozzles. An air plenum provides air to the cabinet through the nozzles. The plenum has a decreasing cross section from one corner to an opposi... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6857199 | Drying sand mold for pulp moldings A drying mold 1 for a pulp molded article has a first mold member 10, a second mold member 20, and a third mold member 30. The first mold member 10 has a drying portion 12 and first passageways 13a and 13 | 02/22/2005 |
| 6845569 | Shoe drying apparatus The present invention provides a new and improved shoe drying apparatus that can dry washed and/or unwashed shoes in a short period of time by circulating ozone-containing air in the airtight interior of the apparatus and also deodorize and sanitize shoes by removin... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6766591 | Garment drying apparatus A garment drying apparatus includes a housing forming a base. A heater is mounted in the base for warming ambient air drawn into the base via a fan through openings formed in the base. A pair of air ducting walls are mounted in the base to direct a portion of the wa... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6742276 | Plastic suit drying system A plastic suit drying system comprises a drying chamber with an air warmer, and a mobile dryer rack. The mobile rack has a wheeled air plenum base, a number of drying positions (each comprising three perforated air pipes protruding up from the base), and a flanged a... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6732447 | Drying apparatus A shoe drying device having two arms and an airflow channel extending therethrough. A spring exerts an outward force on the arms. Each arm includes a member for holding a shoe at an end thereof. During a drying cycle, convection air enters through an air inlet towar... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6688019 | Baby bottle dryer and organizer A baby bottle dryer and organizer is herein described. The bottle dryer has hollow posts onto which baby bottles are placed and a blower/fan that blows drying air up into the posts, thus drying the interior of the baby bottles. The bottle dryer further ha... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6604298 | Drying apparatus A drying apparatus for use in a drying device, having a surface and a first mechanism to at least partially hold an article relative to the surface. A second mechanism associated with the surface is operable to cooperatively engage with an air exit in the... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6591517 | Shoe dryer The present invention is a shoe dryer and deodorizer that can be hung on the back of a door or mounted on a wall. It is comprised of an upper housing support member that is attached to a flat shoe rack with mesh pockets with which to hold shoes. The upper... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6591514 | Centrifuge for draining washed egg trays A centrifuge for draining washed egg trays comprises a centrifuge chamber in a housing (9). A bottom (8) for receiving a washed stack (7) of egg trays in a feeding position is displaceable with respect to said housing (9) between the feeding position and ... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6516536 | Dry suit dryer An apparatus for drying "dry suits", HAZ MAT suits, cleanroom suits and the like utilizes a blower and heating elements mounted through a neck, wrist or ankle seal of the suit. The heated and compressed air is discharged into the suit to absorb moisture f... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6499227 | Drying accessory for sports gloves Sports glove drying devices. In one embodiment, an accessory allows attachment of gloves to a vehicle. The aerodynamic drag of the wind against the vehicle during the vehicle's movement speeds up the drying of the gloves. In a further embodiment, an acces... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6385862 | Method and apparatus for drying articles having internal cavities within a clothes dryer An apparatus for use in drying articles defining internal cavities within a conventional clothes dryer includes a manifold and a plurality of tubes extending therefrom. Each of the tubes is provided with various, circumferentially spaced and longitudinall... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6374509 | Shoe holder for attaching a shoe to a dryer A shoe holder for attaching a shoe to a dryer for preventing the tennis shoes from banging in the drum of the dryer while being dried. The shoe holder for attaching a shoe to a dryer includes a piece of material being adapted to fasten about a sole of a s... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6363627 | Clothes dryer A clothes dryer includes a housing and a hollow tube connected to a first end of the housing. The housing has plural lengthwise narrow air inlets formed in a bottom, a wind leaves wheel rotated by a motor and a heater in its interior, and a wind outlet fo... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6351894 | Clothes dryer attachment for drying footwear An attachment for a clothes dryer includes an air valve with a positionable spherical member for directing heated air to a wall vent or to a flexible conduit serving an article holder for drying various articles. A tee of the holder diverts air into rotat... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6289604 | Environmental protection compliant, higher productivity footwear vacuum dryer and conveyance apparatus An environmental protection compliant, higher productivity footwear vacuum dryer and conveyance apparatus having a conveyor belt on which is disposed a plurality of footwear placement rod support and footwear placement tray units that convey the footwear ... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6263591 | Sports equipment drying container The portable sports equipment drying container comprised: a box shaped body; a cover for the body; the body having opposed side walls and opposed end walls; an input fan mounted in one of the walls; an output fan mounted in a another one of the walls; a h... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6243967 | Bag dryer A bag dryer comprising a pair of identical members, each having a central portion, and integral faucet-engaging portion, and an integral bag-engaging portion. The two members are pivotally connected and spring-biased so that the faucet-engaging portions t... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6216359 | Gas fired garment dryer A gas fired garment drier is described in which a base is provided with an air conduit including an internal air passageway leading from a bottom end to a top end. A gas burner is positioned adjacent the bottom end of the conduit. A heat exchanger is situ... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6212793 | Apparatus and method for drying and storing laboratory containers An apparatus and method are presented for drying and storing laboratory containers which significantly reduce the introduction of contaminants into the containers. A laboratory container system includes one or more containers and a rack for holding the co... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6209221 | Wafer rack provided with a gas distribution device Wafer rack consisting of a carrier frame provided with accommodations for at least two wafers. To provide uniform distribution of gas over said wafers a gas distribution device is fitted at least above each wafer, which gas distribution device is connecte... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6115936 | Free tumbling padded shoe container for use in clothes dryer The device consisting of a hollow body made of foam rubber or other shock absorbing material defining an enclosed chamber and having a plurality of holes therein. A closeable opening is provided that is of adequate size to allow wet tennis shoes or other ... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6115937 | Removing moisture from hollow guiding members With the object of removing moisture from a system of Nࣙ2 elongated hollow guiding members (20) for cable-like elements (27), in the system a gas flow (G) is maintained. The gas flow is supplied to the system by way of a gas-supply opening (29) of a cou... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6085436 | Glove dryer attachment for boot dryers A glove dryer attachment for a boot dryer includes a boot dryer attachment flange that is configured to mount on a boot dryer. A panel on the boot dryer attachment is provided with ribs projecting from the panel and defining air duct passages, including a... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6067723 | Clothes dryer hanging feature A hanging feature is provided for a clothes dryer. The hanging feature is included on the door, or on the cabinet adjacent the door opening so that shoes or other objects can be hung from the hanging feature and suspended in a position exposed to the hot ... | 05/30/2000 |
