Patents by Inventor Dwight L. Kapke

Dwight L. Kapke has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Vent apparatus for clothes dryer
    Patent number: 4121351
    Abstract: Vent apparatus for a clothes dryer is disclosed comprising a tube having an outlet and an inlet opening. A removable screen is positioned across the outlet opening for filtering lint particles from the exhaust stream of a forced air clothes drying apparatus.The tube is mounted on a tube positioning member which allows the tube to be adjustably rotated 360 degrees on an axis transverse to its longitudinal axis and 180.degree. about its longitudinal axis. The outlet opening of the tube lies in a plane parallel to the longitudinal axis of the tube and is rotatable through an arc of 180.degree. about the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1978
    Inventor: Dwight L. Kapke