Patents Examined by D. Doster
  • Patent number: 5675907
    Abstract: A foot dryer designed to dry the toes and areas between the toes on an individual's foot includes a housing which is designed to accept and support a conventional hair dryer. The housing is a box-like structure which defines an internal cavity. A cradle is located within the cavity and the cradle is designed to accept a number of the conventional hair dryers available on the market. The cradle supports the hair drying in a position where the air flow from the hair dryer is directed through a plurality of apertures in the top panel of the housing. An aperture in one of the side panels of the housing allows for the insertion and removal of the hair dryer into engagement and disengagement with the cradle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1997
    Inventors: George S. Reppas, Robert G. Reppas, Charles B. Reppas, Katherine R. Morse
  • Patent number: 5675908
    Abstract: The present invention is an externally mounted clothes dryer filter which attaches to a standard clothes dryer hose. The externally mounted clothes dryer filter is fastened to an external wall of a structure. The clothes dryer exhaust hose is attached to an input. A screen device in the filter captures lint and other particulate matter. The filter can be removed for cleaning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1997
    Inventor: Paul S. Barnes
  • Patent number: 5542192
    Abstract: A vacuum roll apparatus is disclosed for transferring a web supported on a dryer felt from a first to a second drying cylinder of a dryer section. The apparatus includes a rotatable perforate shell having a first and a second end, the shell defining a cavity which extends from the first to the second end of the shell. The arrangement is such that the dryer felt extends from the first dryer around the perforate shell to the second dryer with the web extending contiguously with the dryer felt, and the dryer felt being disposed between the shell and the web. At least one fin is rigidly secured to the shell and is disposed within the cavity such that when the shell is rotated, the fin generates a flow of air through the perforate shell towards the cavity for drawing the web into close conformity with the dryer felt during movement thereof around the vacuum roll apparatus so that the web is restrained against cross-machine directional shrinkage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Assignee: Beloit Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajendra D. Deshpande, William R. McGraw, Jeffrey H. Pulkowski