Abstract: A device for drying food products such as vegetables by aeration. The device includes a container having a domed cover and housing a network of tubing having a plurality of apertures through which compressed air is discharged for drying food products supported within said container in a mesh basket. The dome-shaped cover enhances air circulation by re-directing upward flowing air back down toward the enclosed food product causing certain foods such as lettuce to tumble in the resulting air stream. A pressure relief valve operates to limit pressure within the container and allow the escape of moisture laden air. In an alternate embodiment water is first allowed to flow through the tubing network and out of the tube apertures for washing the enclosed food product.

Abstract: A device for drying the feet of invalids and physically challenged persons includes a foot support surface upon which a person may step without significant vertical transition from the surrounding floor surface. A plenum chamber is disposed adjacent to a distal and two lateral side edges of the foot support surface. Airflow means provides a flow of heated air to the plenum chamber. The airflow is directed through openings in corresponding distal and lateral walls of the plenum chamber toward the user's foot or feet in a path along and substantially parallel to the foot support surface. Foot operated control means allow the user to control the airflow to the distal, proximal, lateral and medial regions of the foot to dry the same.

Abstract: A drying apparatus includes a built-in precision balance for determining the moisture content of material to be weighed. The apparatus includes a weighing dish for receiving the material. The weighing dish is connected to a load-receiving member of the measuring cell of the balance. A heat source is arranged above the weighing dish for heating the material. During drying, the weighing dish is located within the housing. The weighing dish can be moved in and out of the housing for charging and weighing-in of the material.

Abstract: A hand dryer in which a channel-like hand insertion unit 5 opening at the front face and side faces is formed in the front face of a case 6 which functions as an outer shell. Upper and lower blowout nozzles 32 and 33 are disposed in the upper and lower faces of the hand insertion unit 5. A high-pressure air flow generation device 7 supplies high-pressure air flow to the blowout nozzles 32 and 33. A high-speed wind generated in the hand insertion unit 5 blows water on hands to the inner portion of the hand insertion unit 5. The blown water is drained to the outside of the hand insertion unit 5, through drainage holes 18 which are disposed at lateral ends of the bottom face of the hand insertion unit 5. Thereby, the blown water from the hands can be smoothly drained without remaining in the hand insertion unit.

Abstract: A new and improved foot dryer comprised of a housing. A securement spring is secured within the housing. The securement spring has an end portion extending outwardly of the housing. An intake vent is secured within the housing. A pair of vents are secured within the housing. The housing functions to be installed within the floor of a bathroom. A pressure activated limit switch is secured within the housing opposite the intake vent. The pressure activated limit switch has a pressure rod secured to the limit switch and extending out of the container. A timer is electrically secured to the pressure activated limit switch. The timer has a thirty second limit. A heating element is secured within the housing. A wire electrically secures the heating element to the timer. A fan is secured to the intake vent of the housing. A wire is electrically secured to the fan and to the timer.

Abstract: A combination drying unit is disclosed. The device consists of a air blower unit that forces air out through a venting system in order to dry a person's hands and face. After completion of the air blowing process, a paper towel roll, mounted within the drying unit, dispenses a single paper towel out though the bottom of the unit.

Abstract: An apparatus for drying an ostomy pouch in a discreet manner includes a container having a box-shaped structure formed from top, bottom, front, back and side panels with an L-shaped extensor rod extending from an inner surface of one of the back or side panels. At least two of the front, side and top panels include a plurality of perforations therethrough to allow air flow through the container to aid in drying an ostomy pouch mounted on the extensor rod. The front panel is moveable from a closed position adjacent the top, bottom and side panels to an open position to allow access to an interior region of the box-shaped structure and to the extensor rod. A removable drip pan can be included for convenient collection and removal of all drainage from the ostomy pouch.

Abstract: Green concrete products, such as building products, are placed on pallets. Those pallets are transported to a kiln for curing and from the kiln after cure by an overhead crane. Pallets are lowered into and removed from open top kilns layer by layer being supported by movable support ledges, for example rotatable toggles, at each layer position which permit vertical entry and removal of the pallet layers. Three kiln compartments permit continuous production, one being filled, one being emptied and the third curing a load of pallet layers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a portable calf dryer apparatus comprising a wheeled container having two compartments, a calf-receiving compartment for drying and warming a calf and a heater unit-storing compartment separate from the calf-receiving compartment for housing either a battery-operated or electrically-powered heater unit means which generates heated air which passes through a vent into the calf-receiving compartment to dry and warm the calf therein and for separating the calf from the heater unit means so that the calf isn't burned by the heater unit means.

Abstract: An improved fingernail or toenail dryer that uses air cooled almost to freezing directed at nails that have been recently polished. The palm of the hand or sole of the foot thus being treated rests on a plate heated to a temperature sufficient to maintain comfort during the drying process. For hygienic improvement of the manicure or pedicure environment, the device also includes an integral roll of sanitary paper to allow for the easy dispensing of a portion of the paper over the heated plate and the cold air drying zone.

Abstract: A nail drying apparatus including a housing having lower and upper adjustable portions and including an ultraviolet light source enclosed therein. The housing has left and right hand or feet openings for positioning both hands, or feet, on left hand or foot and right hand or foot rest positions within the housing, for drying the nails. A method of drying the nails is also provided.

Abstract: A finger drying component for use with a finger print image processing apparatus is disclosed. The drying component removes moisture from the finger so that an unsmudged finger print can be imaged. A preferred embodiment involves the use of a forced air dryer to conduct a stream of air across the optical imaging surface.

Abstract: A heating device for warming the contents of bottles and other containers. The device has a casing in which a radiant heater is mounted and a container-receiving cylindrical insert in the casing in heat transfer relationship to the radiant heater. The insert is removable from the casing through an opening in the casing top to facilitate cleaning. The insert has an imperforate lower portion capable of intercepting and trapping any product which may drip or run down the container side and openings in an upper portion allowing air to circulate into convective heat transfer with the container. The closed base of the insert has a raised seat which spaces the bottom of the container above the insert base to allow air to circulate across the bottom of the insert and to prevent any product collected in the insert from soiling the container.

Abstract: The building entrance boot drain is similar in function to a shower-base, but is recessed into the floor inside an entrance to a house or building. An expanded metal grate is supported by the receptacle. At the center of the base of the receptacle, an opening leads to suitable plumbing fixtures which form a water-trap and thence a drain to the building's water-waste system. Snow and ice, melting off winter boots placed on the building entrance boot drain, forms water which is conveniently drained away into the building's water-waste system.

Abstract: A single wafer processing apparatus includes a portable processing head that can be a portable module or a movable unit mounted to a supporting machine frame. The processing head has movable fingers adapted to grip a wafer. The fingers protrude from a protective wafer plate. Indexing and rotation monitoring assemblies are provided for automation of the wafer processing steps. A complementary processing base includes an upwardly-open bowl that receives a wafer held by the portable processing head. It has a full-diameter movable bottom wall for rapid draining purposes. Liquid and/or gas jets and nozzles supply fluids required within the bowl for processing of wafers.

Abstract: A cast drying system is disclosed for drying a cast. The cast drying system includes a cast drying device including an inflatable bladder made of a flexible material, the bladder having an outer wall and an inner wall jointed together to define an enclosed expansion chamber. The inflatable bladder further includes first air passage means for permitting air to pass into the inflatable bladder which communicates with the expansion chamber. The inner wall preferably includes second air passage means for permitting air to pass out of the expansion chamber such that air originating from the source of forced air can be directed against a cast when the cast is engaged with the inner wall of the inflatable bladder. The system further includes coupling means for conveying forced air originating from the source of forced air into the expansion chamber. The process for drying a cast is also disclosed.

Abstract: A photo resist drier for curing photo resist coatings on a metal foil is described. The dryer has an enclosure made of copper sheet and surrounded by strip heaters to heat the enclosure. The enclosure, heated by the heaters conducts heat and accordingly results in a more uniform internal temperature in the enclosure. The heaters are individually controllable. The vapors are captured by an exhaust system and removed from the dryer.

Abstract: The shoe dryer of the present invention utilizes the exhaust heat of a clothes drying machine, or the like, to dry articles placed inside the shoe dryer. A duct chamber has a first duct opening in a first region which is connected to the outlet of the drying machine, or the like, to receive the exhaust. The duct chamber also has a second duct opening in a second region of the duct chamber which is connected to an exhaust duct. By selectively adjusting a control door, the exhaust of the drying machine could be directed from the first region of the duct chamber to the shoe drying compartment of the shoe dryer and then to the second region of the duct chamber where it enters the exhaust duct or the exhaust can be directed from the first region of the duct chamber directly to the second region of the duct chamber without going to the shoe drying compartment.

Abstract: The present invention is a warm-air machine control apparatus which is capable of blowing warm air from the beginning of the delivery of air without preheating an electric heater, and which comprises an electric fan (4), an electric heater (5) which heats air sent from the electric fan (4), a detector (7) which detects a first object to be detected within a first detecting range (a, c) and which also detects a second object to be detected within a second detecting range (b, d), and a control circuit which energizes the electric heater (5) when the detector (7) detects the first object of detection within the first detecting range (a, c), and which energizes the electric fan (4) when the detector (7) detects the second object of detection within the second detecting range (b, d).

Abstract: A sole dryer comprising two electric air blowers respectively controlled by two trigger switches to blow heated air currents for drying the soles of the legs placed on a cover thereof, and a plurality of supporting spring means to automatically push said cover back to its original position so as to disconnect said trigger switches after the removal of said legs from said cover.

Abstract: A wall-mounted hand dryer incorporates a cowl (109) which is mounted on the underside of its cabinet (108) so that the mouth (112) of the cowl extends forwardly beyond the lower edge of the front face of the cabinet, on which an air outlet (106) is mounted. In use, hot air expelled from air outlet flows over the users hands (not shown) and a large proportion of the waste air is collected by cowl (109) and is directed to apertures in the underside of the cabinet (not shown) so that a closed path is formed which enables the air to recirculate. A correspondingly lower power electric heating element may be used, which alleviates the problem of electrical overload caused by a number of such hand dryers operating simultaneously.

Abstract: An apparatus for warming medical instruments, such as a stethoscope, includes a wall mountable, multi-walled, vented housing having a front access opening closed by a hinged translucent panel and an open bottom. A reflective, flexible metal liner having a lower portion overlying the open housing bottom reflects radiant heat from an electric lamp heat source in the housing toward an instrument to be heated vertically positioned in a support formed in the lower portion of the liner and aligned with a slot in the lower portion leading to the access opening. The heat source is thermostatically controlled.

Abstract: A nail drying apparatus by which any commercially available nail polish of any color can be dried after being applied to a person's finger or toe nails. The apparatus consists of a photo-reactive coating and a device that generates ultraviolet radiation. The photo-reactive coating is applied over the wet nail polish and then irradiated with safe dosages of ultraviolet radiation causing the nail polish to dry in a few minutes.

Abstract: This invention is a device that warms a horse bit while holding the bit assembly. The bit is placed on top of a cylindrical, or other shaped housing that captures the heat from an internal heat source. The housing is attached to a heat element base. The heating element that attaches to the base creates the internal heat source for the housing. The housing and base combined are secured to a vertical member or wall. All of the included parts are non-combustible under the standard of the art regulations.

Abstract: A hand drier has an air outlet at which an object for drying is presented about which are mounted a plurality of transmitters of electromagnetic radiation located in the vicinity of the outlet, the transmitters being spaced apart one from another and from at least one receiver sensitive to the radiation. The receiver is masked to prevent direct emissions from any and all of the transmitters reaching the receiver; the transmitters and the, or each, receiver are located relative to a working volume at the air outlet operate so that on an object being located in the working volume a drying cycle is initiated by the passage of emission from the transmitters being scattered by the object so as to cause at least indirect emission from the object to fall on the, or at least one, receiver. Preferably the transmitters and the or each receiver are operable with electromagnetic radiation which is at or near the infra red portion of the spectrum.

Abstract: An assembly for efficiently supplying heated air to an enclosed area for drying the body of a person after bathing. The assembly has particular application for installation in an existing bathing area with a minimum of remodeling and with virtually all components being installed behind the walls and ceiling of the bathing area. The assembly includes blower means, duct means and heating means of special construction and location so as to more efficiently supply heated air to the bathing area.

Abstract: A clamshell housing encloses a nail dryer. The housing includes a cover pivotally connected to a base. The cover may be opened by applying leverage to it and exposing a nail drying zone. The cover may be pivotally closed to form a compact package when not in use. A nail drying fan is actuated when the cover is opened thus closing an electrical circuit. The electrical connection is interrupted when the cover is tipped into a closed position.

Abstract: A hot-air portable clothes drier has a carrying handle, two separate first and second casings one telescopically mateable within the other. Both casings include homogeneously dispersed hot-air exhaust ports directing exhaust air in a common direction. Each has outer cover portions with linearly extending elongated strips spaced-apart from one another. Elongated strips of a first casing mateably and telescopically intermeshing with those of a second casing. The elongated strips of each casing having free-space therebelow in the extended state and overlapping to cover and encase their opposite hot-air exhaust ports when in a retracted position of intermeshed portable intermittently locked state.

Abstract: An automatic hand dryer contains a heating element and a motor which drives a squirrel cage fan. The fan exhausts air past the heating element to a downwardly-directed outlet. A base or mounting plate is adapted for flush mounting to a wall. The axis of the fan is peripendicular to the base plate and wall to which the dryer is attached. A control or sensing circuit emits signals to a detection zone beneath the outlet and monitors the zone for reflected signals indicative of a user's presence. The circuit operates to energize and deenergize the power circuit to the fan motor and heating element. Upon detection for a predetermined period, the circuit energizes the power circuit. The control circuit deenergizes the power circuit upon interruption of the reflected signals for a predetermined period, or after a predetermined maxium time period of continuous detection. Under the latter condition, the stimulus reflecting the emitted signals must be removed from the detection zone to reactivate the control circuitry.

Abstract: Apparatus including a platform including fixed forward legs and adjustable rear legs to permit tilting of the platform and effecting drainage rearwardly thereof through associated drainage openings and a sponge collector. A framework is fixedly mounted extending outwardly of the platform to define a support for a transparent cover sheet surroundingly overlying and encompassing the framework and securable to the platform utilizing complementary hook and loop fasteners formed to the platform and to the cover sheet. A vacuum blower directs drying air through the covering sheet and associated slots formed within the covering sheet through the vacuum source to effect drying of a pet contained within the cover sheet mounted on the platform. A front panel of the cover sheet includes an upper opening for positioning of a pet's head therethrough and a lower opening underlying the upper opening for securement of a leash and the like directed therethrough.

Abstract: A drying apparatus which utilizes air circulation to uniformly dry articles is disclosed. The apparatus includes an enclosure having racks upon which the articles to be dried are placed. An air exchanger couples to the enclosure to recirculate and heat air within the enclosure. Recirculation operates continuously while articles are being dried, and recirculation air temperature is maintained around a predetermined level through a thermostat coupled to heating elements. The air exchanger is configured so that air expelled from the air exchanger travels upward near the enclosure's walls, then downward in the center of the enclosure back to the air exchanger. An exhaust fan is controlled by a humidistat to remove humid air from the enclosure whenever the humidity within the enclosure exceeds a predetermined level. Consequently, a mean humidity level is maintained within the enclosure to prevent excessive drying, and substantial recirculation of air results in improved efficiency.

Abstract: A device for heating an article such as a towel or the like comprises an enclosure and a heating device for providing heated air under positive pressure to the interior of the enclosure. A support in the form of a rack is arranged in the interior of the enclosure, dividing the enclosure into an upper volume and a lower volume. The towel is adapted for placement onto the upper surface of the rack, and cooperates with the lower wall of the enclosure to define a lower passage within which the heated air under positive pressure is received. Vent openings are provided in the upper portion of the enclosure for providing a bottom-to-top flow path for air supplied to the enclosure, with the towel being disposed in the flow path, and thereby heated by air circulating therethrough.

Abstract: A body dryer especially suitable as a portable body dryer is provided. A platform for supporting the feet of the user is formed with apertures therethrough and an upwardly extending surface portion at least in the region of the user's toes to spread same. An upwardly extending region along the central longitudinal axis may be provided to spread the feet of the user. A fan is provided below the platform to force air through the apertures.

Abstract: The drying system includes an air compressor, a compressed air storage tank, a pressure reducing device, a manifold, a heat device, two delivering devices, an electromagnetic control device and a plurality of drying apparatuses. The control device actuates the delivering devices to let out hot and cool air alternatively. Each of the drying apparatuses includes a housing with a top portion, an intermediate portion and a base portion. An air buffer chamber is supplied by the delivering devices, is disposed in the base portion of the housing. A plurality of air distributing devices is respectively disposed in the top portion, the intermediate portion and the base portion. The air buffer chamber has a plurality of tubes with branches respectively and correspondingly connected to the air distributing members. A water guiding device is disposed on top of the base portion of the housing. The housing also has a plurality of air outlets to let out regulated air with uniform pressure.

Abstract: A wall-mounted housing encloses a blower, an antiseptic solution holder, an atomizer pump, and a timer-switch assembly. A front-mounted actuator bar initiates a timer which starts the blower and pump. The atomizer delivers antiseptic solution into the blower discharge for delivery of a vapor mist through the nozzle to the hands of the user for a pre-determined period of time established by the timer. Then the atomizer is shut down by the timer and the blower continues to operate for another predetermined period to dry the hands.

Abstract: There is provided a hand drier comprising: a rigid housing having an air inlet and an air outlet; a flow passage through the housing having the inlet as its upstream end and the outlet as its downstream end; a fan incorporated in the flow passage the fan being in the form of a backward curved multi-bladed radial flow device; a heat transfer volume incorporated in the flow passage, the volume housing a heating element; a motor mounted in the housing for driving the fan, the motor being a brushless direct current device; and control means for operating the motor and heating element. The term `backward curved` applied to a blade refers to a blade which, when viewed along the axis of rotation of the fan, has a root from which the blade extends both outwardly and backwardly relative to a radius from the axis of rotation extending through the root. Thus relative to the direction of travel the root is the leading part of the blade and the outer end the trailing part.

Abstract: This device comprises a tubular body (2) into which open discharge nozzles (5) for an atomized product constituted by disinfection liquid and pressurized air.The air supply means of the injectors comprise an annular duct (14) extending through 360.degree. and directly supplying the injectors (6), while the liquid supply means of the injectors comprise several stages (15,17) with the fluid vein separated in two at each stage.

Abstract: An apparatus for sterilizing a shoe includes a housing 1 mounting an elongate ultraviolet lamp 2, a heating element 3 and a ventilating fan 4. Exposure of the inner sole of the shoe to the ultraviolet rays and the heated air has a sterilizing effect, thus stopping the growth of bacteria and fungi in the shoe. The apparatus may be designed to sterilize a pair of shoes at the same time, or it may have some flexible parts to allow it to reach the inner sole of other footwear such as boots and the like.

Abstract: A drying apparatus includes a vertical housing having a generally horizontal base portion, a generally vertical intermediate portion and a generally horizontal top portion which together define a drying space therebetween. The user can stand on the base portion of the housing in the drying space. The base portion, the intermediate portion and the top portion of the housing are each equipped with a hot-air blowing unit which consists of a fan and a heating element. A control switch unit can selectively activate some or all of the fans and the heating elements so as to blow hot or cold air over the hair and/or the upper part and/or the lower part of the body of the user. A water guiding device guides the water in the upper surface of the base portion of the housing to flow from the user to one or more selected places so as to prevent downward flowing water from damaging the hot-air blowing unit in the base portion.

Abstract: An attachment for a high pressure fluid cleaning outlet for confining small items subjected to the fluid stream including an elongated housing having a body with an opening therein, an upper cover with an integrally mounted outlet nozzle for attachment to a source of high pressure fluids and a lower cover including a screen member which permits the cleaning fluid to pass through, but which catches and confines solid items which may become dislodged during the cleaning process.

Abstract: A hand-held animal grooming tool is configured as a circular hoop-formed curry comb having a sealing cap sealing off the edge of the hoop opposite the comb serrations, and further including a handle attached to the hoop, the handle having an axial passage therethrough communicating with the interior of the hoop. The handle is adapted at its outer end for connection to a flexible conduit fed by a hot air blower so that with the curry comb in use against the body of the animal the open face is effectively sealed by the animal's body, and warm air is blown along the serrations to dry the animal during the combing operation. Alternative versions of the instrument include hollow-chamber brushes having similar handles and having a plurality of air passages for directing heated air flowing into the handle and out these passages generally along the bristle directions.

Abstract: A portable heating device includes a cabinet, a source of heat, support for a towel so as to exposed the towel to the heat, and an opening at the top to the heat. The towel heating device of the invention may be used to warm or dry towels or other like cloth materials.

Abstract: An automatic hand dryer contains a heating element and a motor which drives a squirrel cage fan. The fan exhausts air past the heating element to a downwardly-directed outlet. A base or mounting plate is adapted for flush mounting to a wall. The axis of the fan is perpendicular to the base plate and wall to which the dryer is attached. A control or sensing circuit emits signals to a detection zone beneath the outlet and monitors the zone for reflected signals indicative of a user's presence. The circuit operates to energize and deenergize the power circuit to the fan motor and heating element. Upon detection for a predetermined period, the circuit energizes the power circuit. The control circuit deenergizes the power circuit upon interruption of the reflected signals for a predetermined period, or after a predetermined maximum time period of continuous detection. Under the latter condition, the stimulus reflecting the emitted signals must be removed from the detection zone to reactivate the control circuitry.

Abstract: A hot air dryer suspended from the ceiling which may be raised or lowered from the ceiling to surround the user a blow dryer with a drying current of warm air utilizing a flexible skirt which forms a cylinder surrounding the user when lowered, the skirt having interior chambers with one or more interior slots allowing air to escape into the interior of the cylinder.

Abstract: A toothbrush storage and dryer system is provided comprising an upright cylindrical housing having an open top end and closed sidewall, sized to receive at least one toothbrush inserted axially into the top end. A plate is positioned in the housing in a substantially horizontal orientation for separating the housing interior into an upper chamber for receiving the toothbrush and a lower chamber, adjacent and vertically below the upper chamber, for providing heated air to dry the toothbrush. The plate supports the toothbrush in the upper chamber while allowing air flow between the chambers. A heat source, such as a light bulb, for warming the surrounding air is disposed in the lower chamber.

Abstract: A method and dryer pack utilized therein for drying wet athletic balls such as footballs and baseballs between plays during an athletic or sporting event. The wet ball is placed into a dryer pack containing granular synthetic amorphous silicon dioxide, shaken and removed. The dryer pack is comprised of a shaker bag and a sealed envelope containing the silicon dioxide attached within the shaker bag. The envelope contains a tear string which when acted upon releases the silicon dioxide into the bag. The wet ball and silicon dioxide are shaken together thereby drying the ball.

Abstract: The procedure to prevent the formation of condensation on tools that are heated in use and are cooled by a circulated coolant is particularly relevant to plastic moulding machines. To avoid the build-up of condensation from dampness on the cooled tools a dry air veil, as herein laid down, is produced by direct blowing-on of the tools, through which the cooling water temperature of the circulated coolant in the tools can be further reduced making shorter work cycles possible. By use of a special control equipment, the dew point on the tool surface is picked up which regulates the cooling water temperature accordingly.

Abstract: A nail dryer includes a clamshell shaped base for resting the user's hand thereon. A C-shaped heating member is attached to the perimeter of the base by rib braces. The member includes two separated C-shaped channels housing a rope heater. The ribs form segmented air slots between the base and the channels. A clamshell shaped cover fits over the base and the C-shaped heating member. The closed cover forms an air chamber. The channels also have air induction vents below the heater for allowing outside air to pass by the heater and then to enter the air chamber. Air also enters via the air slots and is heated as it flows by the two channels. The hot air entering the air chamber is deflected by baffles. The wet fingernails are positioned in the chamber, and the hot air flow rapidly bakes the polish. The hot air vents at the cutaway rear of the cover. The stepped fashion of the rope heater and the two channels influence the air flow and currents in the chamber.

Abstract: There is provided a dryer which is particularly adapted to dry a plurality of fireman's gas masks. The dryer includes a first enclosure having a plurality of air inlet holes through its top, with a second enclosure covering the air inlet holes and being connected to a forced air fan. A plurality of air outlet holes is provided in the bottom of the first enclosure. Tubes from the gas masks are connected to certain of the air inlet holes whereby the forced air passes onto the inside surfaces of the mask. The other air inlet holes provide forced air for drying the outside surfaces of the masks.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for drying hanger mounted clothes, comprising a hanger rod mounted above a drip pan element, where said rod and drip pan assembly may be slidably removed from a drying cabinet so that wet clothing articles may be easily mounted on the hanger rod. In another aspect, the present invention relates to an improved clothing hanger having at least one clothing clip adapted so as to retain an article of clothing to prohibit said article from being removed from said hanger during operations, where said clothing clip may be attached to said hanger by an extension wire. In another aspect, an automatic control is provided so that the drying cycle may be preselected so as to achieve the most efficient drying of the clothing articles.