With Apparatus Cleaner And/or Escaping Material Collector Patents (Class 34/85)
  • Patent number: 11661700
    Abstract: A clothes treatment apparatus comprises: a cabinet forming a treatment space for storing clothes; a filter module having a filter portion for filtering out dust from air; an air flow path having a plurality of preset flow paths for directing air to be discharged into the treatment space; a fan for moving the air in the air flow path; a single valve disposed on the air flow path, that changes the air flow path by rotating around a predetermined rotational axis; a valve actuating module for rotating the valve; and a control part for controlling the angle of rotation of the valve to select one of the plurality of flow paths. The plurality of flow paths comprise: at least one bypass flow path for directing the air to bypass the filter portion; and at least one filtering flow path for directing the air to pass through the filter portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyungha Kang, Jaehyung Kim, Semin Jang, Joosik Jung
  • Patent number: 11433341
    Abstract: A filter assembly includes a primary filter; a secondary filter into which the primary filter is detachably inserted; a case detachably coupled to the primary filter and comprising a plurality of air inlet holes; and at least one blade being rotatably coupled to the secondary filter and configured to compresses first foreign substances collected in the primary filter based on the primary filter moving in a first direction in which the primary filter is drawn out from the secondary filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bokun Choi, Jeseung Oh, Heejun Kang, Eungchan Kim, Youngmin Jeong, Hankyu Choi, Jungsu Ha
  • Patent number: 9250016
    Abstract: A clothes treating apparatus includes a filter insertion detecting device that detects whether a filter has been inserted in the clothes treating apparatus. The filter insertion detecting device, which is installed in a clothes drying machine or the like, may be moved in response to insertion of a filter assembly to generate a contact signal that indicates insertion of the filter assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jeongyun Kim, Sangik Lee
  • Publication number: 20150128439
    Abstract: A laundry dryer containing a combination of a vented and condenser dryer, in which during a process of venting, air is drawn from the surrounding, heated and blown into the drum and then exhausted through an air duct to the exterior, and during condensing drying, hot air and a fine mist of cold water are introduced into the drum and the hot air is cooled using a condensing process and the residual water is removed by a pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventor: ATUL VIR
  • Patent number: 8973282
    Abstract: A secondary lint trap couplable between a laundry dryer and a building-embedded vent duct. The trap has an elongate housing. Aligned inlet and outlet apertures are formed in bottom and top sides of the housing's rearward ends. A tray is removably insertable within the housing. A screened aperture in the tray is aligned between the inlet and outlet apertures when the tray is inserted within the housing. The housing is mountable above the dryer such that the inlet and outlet apertures extend rearwardly of the dryer. This facilitates coupling of the dryer's exhaust outlet to the inlet aperture through one 90° elbow via a first short, substantially straight, elbowless conduit; and facilitates coupling of the vent duct to the outlet aperture through one other 90° elbow collar via a second short, substantially straight, elbowless conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Ecco Heating Products Ltd.
    Inventor: David Thomas Mackay
  • Patent number: 8919006
    Abstract: A laundry drying machine (1) includes a casing (2) containing a rotatable drum (4) for holding the laundry (5) to dry, and a drying air circuit (6) for conveying a drying air flow towards the inside of the drum (6) and from it to the outside. At least one filter (12) is provided for intercepting the fluff dragged out of the laundry (5) by the drying air flow. Vibrating means (19) are adapted to cause the filter (12) to vibrate, so as to drop down the fluff from the filter (12). The filter (12) is selectively positionable between an operational position in which the filter (12) is arranged in a seat (11) intercepting the drying air circuit (6), and an extracted position in which the filter (12) is removed from the seat (11), outside the drying air circuit (6). The vibrating means includes an exciter, associated to the casing (2), and an exciter-responsive element, associated to the filter (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.V.
    Inventors: Giancarlo Arrigoni, Carlo Urbanet, Alberto Bison, Maurizio Ugel, Giancarlo Gerolin
  • Patent number: 8864047
    Abstract: Methods for producing a mono- or multilayer composite are provided in which one or several layers are applied onto a carrier material by coating, the coated mono- or multilayer composite is dried and rolled up, and the installation is subsequently cleaned. The air circuit in the drying oven is entirely set to fresh air supply, and the drying oven is configured to be cleaned in a controlled manner. All components of the drying oven that come into contact with the product do not have to be removed during cleaning, but can be cleaned-in-place using technology integrated into the drying oven. The drying oven Outer housing is designed so that it can be lifted upwardly. All assembly parts in the drying oven interior are designed to eliminate disassembling for cleaning purposes. Transport rollers within the drying oven are designed as hollow shafts and provided with spraying nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: LTS Lohmann Therapie-Systeme AG
    Inventors: Rudi Brathuhn, Peter Schwarz, Wolfgang Schaefer
  • Patent number: 8857071
    Abstract: A laundry machine having a heat exchanger cleaning device may include a cabinet, a drum provided in the cabinet, a heat exchanger for heating air to dry laundry in the drum, air conduits to circulate the air between the heat exchanger and the drum, and a control valve that controls a flow of water to the heat exchanger to clean lint deposits on the heat exchanger. An area of the heat exchanger may be divided into a plurality of regions, such that a first nozzle is coupled to the first outlet port and provided above a first region of the plurality of regions and a second nozzle is coupled to the second outlet port and provided above a second region of the plurality of regions. The control valve may selectively direct the flow of water toward the first nozzle or the second nozzle to clean a desired region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Junseok Lee, Seonil Heo, Kiwook Jung
  • Patent number: 8789287
    Abstract: A clothes treating apparatus includes an accommodating space, an air supply unit, a duct unit and a filter assembly. The accommodating space is configured to receive one or more clothing articles. The air supply unit is configured to supply air to the accommodating space. The duct unit is configured to guide discharge of air from the accommodating space. The filter assembly is positioned to filter air discharged from the accommodating space through the duct unit and includes a housing, a filter positioned in the housing, a substance removal unit and a collection area defined within the housing. The filter positioned in the housing is configured to filter substances from air passing through the filter assembly. The substance removal unit is configured to move substances remaining on a portion of the filter and press the moved substances into the collection area, which is configured to collect removed substances within the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Donghyun Kim, Jeongyun Kim, Yongju Lee, Hyunwoo Noh, Sangik Lee
  • Patent number: 8729436
    Abstract: A method and system for drying a honeycomb structure having an original liquid vehicle content includes exposing the honeycomb structure to a first electromagnetic radiation source until the liquid vehicle content is between about 20% and about 60% of the original liquid vehicle content, exposing the honeycomb structure to a second electromagnetic radiation source different from the first electromagnetic radiation source until the liquid vehicle content is between about 0% and about 30% of the original liquid vehicle content, and exposing the honeycomb structure to convection heating until the liquid vehicle content is between about 0% and about 30% of the original liquid vehicle content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Paul Andreas Adrian, Rebecca Lynn Burt, James Anthony Feldman, Elizabeth Marie Vileno
  • Patent number: 8713813
    Abstract: The industrial tumble dryer comprises a casing (1) enclosing a drum (2) to contain the clothes to be dried by means of drying air introduced into it, a low-pressure chamber (3) to extract drying air from the drum (2) and a filtering device (4) interposed in the low-pressure chamber (3). The filtering device (4) comprises a filtering element (5), means to detach fuzz from said filtering element (5) and a build-up enclosure (6) to collect the detached fuzz. In the casing (1) there is an opening (7) communicated with the build-up enclosure (6) and configured to receive a suction nozzle (8a) of an external suction device (8) to remove the fluff from the build-up enclosure (6) through suction without the need to remove the filtering element (5) or to access it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: GIRBAU, S.A.
    Inventor: Ramon Sans Rovira
  • Publication number: 20140109427
    Abstract: A laundry treating apparatus may include a cabinet, a drum rotatably installed in the cabinet, a heat exchanger disposed in the cabinet and receiving air from the drum, and a cleaning device disposed in the cabinet and moved by an external force in a first direction to remove lint accumulated on the heat exchanger. The lint may be simply removed from the heat exchanger and air may smoothly flow through the heat exchanger, thus improving performance of the laundry treating apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Inventors: Seonghwan Kim, Bio Park, Yongju Lee
  • Publication number: 20140102484
    Abstract: A device for drying containers, especially bottles, includes a substantially closed drying chamber, with an inlet opening, an outlet opening, and a transport system for the containers. The containers are transported through the drying chamber standing in an upright position. An air supply opening supplies drying air. At least one cleaning device chemically and or mechanically cleans the interior of the drying chamber, whereby a cleanser and/or a disinfectant can be injected into the interior of the drying chamber, distributed inside the drying chamber and removed from the drying chamber through the cleaning device. A method for cleaning a device for drying containers, whereby the at least one cleanser and/or disinfectant is injected into the interior of the drying chamber, distributed inside the drying chamber and removed from the drying chamber through the cleaning device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: KRONES AG
    Inventor: Stefan SCHOBER
  • Publication number: 20130255096
    Abstract: A gas blowing cellulose pulp dryer is operative for drying a web of cellulose pulp using gas supplied from gas outlets of blow boxes of a first drying section. The cellulose pulp dryer has an inspection device with at least a first radiation sensor arranged to detect reflected radiation at the first drying section to detect at least one of a position of the web during operation of the dryer, and the occurrence of any residue of the web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: ANDRITZ TECHNOLOGY AND ASSET MANAGEMENT GMBH
    Inventors: Roland Kampris, Christer Olsson, Frank Jonsson, Arne Karlsson
  • Publication number: 20130255095
    Abstract: A clothes treatment appliance includes a process air condenser and a cleaner for the process air condenser. The cleaner is adapted to direct a cleaning medium to the condenser from any direction other than from above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Bömmels, Bernd Gemünden, Jürgen Heß, Vladimir Proseanic, Svetlana Visnepolschi
  • Publication number: 20130255094
    Abstract: A clothes treatment appliance includes a water container connected to a transfer pipe leading to a water-cleanable unit, in particular, a process air condenser, of the clothes treatment appliance. The clothes treatment appliance further includes a water accelerator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERATE GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Bömmels, Bernd Gemünden, Jürgen Hess, Vladimir Proseanic, Svetlana Visnepolschi
  • Publication number: 20130139403
    Abstract: Provided are a fabric dryer and a method of controlling the fabric dryer. The fabric dryer includes a drum, a driving unit, a steam supply unit, a radical supply unit, a contamination removal function selector, and a controller. The drum is rotatably disposed and receives laundry. The driver rotates the drum. The steam supply unit supplies steam into the drum. The radical supply unit supplies radical into the drum. The contamination removal function selector selects a water-soluble contaminant or a fat-soluble contaminant. The controller controls the steam supply unit to supply steam in response to selection of the water-soluble-contaminant by the contamination removal function selector, and controls the radical supply unit to supply radical in response to selection of fat-soluble contaminant by the contamination removal function selector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Inventor: Deughee Lee
  • Patent number: 8393090
    Abstract: A clothes dryer having an improved configuration to allow a user to safely pull out a water tank is disclosed. The clothes dryer includes a body having a water tank housing, a water tank detachably mounted into the water tank housing and serving to store water collected from an object to be dried, and a safety guide to limit movement of the water tank in a first direction when the water tank is separated from the water tank housing in the first direction, so as to allow a user to guide movement of the water tank in a second direction. The safety guide includes a first stopper provided at the water tank housing, and a second stopper provided at the water tank to correspond to the first stopper when the water tank is separated in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Min Hee Kang
  • Patent number: 8381412
    Abstract: A dryer is provided, in which foreign substances contained in air circulating through an inside of a drum is filtered by a filter unit, and the foreign substances attached to the filter unit are separated by air flowing in a direction opposite to a flow direction of the circulating air. The separated foreign substances are collected in a separate lint case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seung Phyo Ahn, Jeong Yun Kim, Sang Ik Lee
  • Patent number: 8377224
    Abstract: A cleaning device for a component loaded with lint in a household appliance for laundry care. The cleaning device includes a rinsing unit to guide rinsing fluid to the component to remove the lint. The rinsing unit has a flow element disposed above the component, and the flow element builds up a dynamic pressure of the rinsing fluid in the flow element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Grunert
  • Publication number: 20120240424
    Abstract: To prevent evaporated flux from being attached to rotation axes of motors which rotate fans positioned in a preheating zone, a main heating zone and a cooling zone and being solidified, the evaporated flux is efficiently and surely collected with the flux liquefying before the flux is solidified and having fluidity. A drain portion 20 constituting a flux collection apparatus 10A is formed at a side of a motor base 16 opposed to the fan and at a circumferential portion of the rotation axis 14. A surface of the drain portion 20 opposed to the fan is formed as an inclined surface 20A which is inclined from a level position of the motor base 16 to a discharge port 46 provided at a back side of the motor base 16.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: SENJU METAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Sugihara, Hiroshi Taguchi, Daisuke Kasahara, Koichiro Hosokawa, Yuta Saito
  • Patent number: 8266813
    Abstract: An exhaust air dryer with a drying chamber for items to be dried. The dryer includes a process air fan, a heat exchanger which includes a heat source, a heat sink of a heat pump, and a flushing device for flushing of a first inflow surface of the heat source and a second inflow surface of the heat sink with a liquid which is assigned to the heat source and the heat sink for removing of soil; and air ducts interconnecting the drying chamber, the process air fan, and the heat exchanger for conducting process air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Grunert, Uwe-Jens Krausch, Günter Steffens, Andreas Stolze
  • Patent number: 8266814
    Abstract: A household appliance for cleaning laundry includes a rinsing container that collects rinsing liquid generated during a cleaning process, a controller that stores a connection type of a rinsing liquid device during an initial commissioning of the rinsing liquid device, and one of a collection container that collects rinsing liquid after cleaning a heat exchanger of a heat pump and a connection to an external waste water system that disposes of the rinsing liquid after cleaning the heat exchanger based upon the connection type stored by the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Grunert
  • Patent number: 8187387
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a dryer and a method of controlling a cleaning operation thereof that are capable of supplying moisture into a drying chamber of the dryer to wet contaminants in the drying chamber and blowing air to the wetted contaminants to remove the contaminants. The method includes supplying moisture into a drying chamber to wet contaminants in the drying chamber and removing the contaminants wetted by the moisture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tai Eun Kim, Jeong Han Kim, Byoung Yull Yang
  • Patent number: 8156659
    Abstract: Disclosed is a filter cleaning apparatus and a ductless dryer adopting the same, the dryer having a main body, a drum rotatably mounted at the main body, a hot air supplying unit supplying hot air into the drum, a heat exchanger condensing and removing moisture contained in air exhausted from the drum, a circulation duct conducing the air exhausted from the drum to the heat exchanger, a filter installed in the circulation duct and filtering foreign substances contained in the air discharged from the drum, and a filter cleaning apparatus removing the foreign substances caught by the filter, thereby enhancing a user's convenience and reducing indoor air contamination which may occur in the course of removing the foreign substances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Han-Yong Jung, Seung-Phyo Ahn, Sang-Ik Lee, Jea-Hyuk Wee, Yang-Ho Kim, Yoon-Seob Eom, Byeong-Jo Ryoo, Sung-Ho Song
  • Publication number: 20120060386
    Abstract: A low impact belt dryer is presented for drying pellets while minimizing high-energy pellet collisions that may create pellet dust or cause pellets to fracture. The dryer includes a vacuum chamber having multiple air knife assemblies that direct high velocity drying fluid towards the pellets and though a liquid-permeable pellet-impermeable belt to a vacuum port. The low impact dryer may also include a centrifugal dryer for dewatering the pellets before they pass though the vacuum chamber. The conveyor belt of the dryer may transport the pellets through multiple desiccation chambers where low velocity air is directed upwards though the belt to both dry and levitate the pellets above the belt. The dryer may also include a cleaning chamber for removing debris from the liquid-permeable pellet-impermeable belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventor: George A. Holmes
  • Publication number: 20120036730
    Abstract: The industrial tumble dryer comprises a casing (1) enclosing a drum (2) to contain the clothes to be dried by means of drying air introduced into it, a low-pressure chamber (3) to extract drying air from the drum (2) and a filtering device (4) interposed in the low-pressure chamber (3). The filtering device (4) comprises a filtering element (5), means to detach fuzz from said filtering element (5) and a build-up enclosure (6) to collect the detached fuzz. In the casing (1) there is an opening (7) communicated with the build-up enclosure (6) and configured to receive a suction nozzle (8a) of an external suction device (8) to remove the fluff from the build-up enclosure (6) through suction without the need to remove the filtering element (5) or to access it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: GIRBAU, S.A.
    Inventor: Ramon Sans Rovira
  • Publication number: 20120017456
    Abstract: A condensation dryer has a drying chamber for items to be dried, and a process air channel in which a heater for heating the process air and a fan for delivering the process air are located. A rinsing device is provided for rinsing lint from a component that can be loaded with lint, by means of condensate from a condensate collection vessel. Rinsed lint is collected by a filter bag of a filter device, and a condensate pump delivers the condensate into the condensate collection vessel, with the filter device and the being arranged downstream of the component. The filter bag includes a nonwoven fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERAETE GMBH
    Inventor: Klaus Grunert
  • Patent number: 8048205
    Abstract: A lint filter device for an airflow in a tumble dryer, comprising an endlessly circulating element, arranged around at least two deflector elements and positioned such as to be crossed by the airflow. The circulating element has an upper edge and a lower edge and first engaging elements are arranged on at least one of the two edges which, on opening a loading door of the tumble dryer may come to cooperate with at least one second engaging element, arranged inside the tumble dryer such that, on the opening process of the loading door, the circulating element may be automatically moved in a circulating direction and may be passed across at least one device for the removal of lint from the circulating element. The invention further relates to a method for cleaning such a lint filter device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Hartmut Schaub
  • Publication number: 20110258872
    Abstract: A dryer is provided. The dryer may include a main body having an inner space formed therein, a fixed drum provided in the inner space of the main body, and a tumbling device coupled to the drum. The fixed drum may have a non-circular cross-section as it is rotated. The tumbling device may tumble laundry items received in the fixed drum as it slides along an inner circumferential surface of the fixed drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Inventors: Sungmin KIM, Jongseok Kim, Daeyun Park, Sogkie Hong
  • Patent number: 8001701
    Abstract: Device for drying laundry by means of a current of air comprises a drum to accommodate the laundry and a ducting system to direct said current of air. The ducting system has a section arranged downstream of the drum, in which the current of air is directed downwards and in which is arranged a filter to capture lint from the current of air. A scraper is assigned to the filter, in order to scrape off the lint. The receptacle has a handle and two interlinked shell elements which can be separated from each other, and which define a storage volume to accommodate the scraped-off lint. According to the invention, lint thus scraped off can be removed from the device and disposed of, without the user needing to come into direct contact with the lint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Roman Goldberg, Kai Nitschmann
  • Patent number: 7946057
    Abstract: A support structure for a clothes dryer comprising modular units for receiving functional parts and an air duct components. The modular units are incorporated into the support structure. The inventive support structure for stabilizing the clothes dryer comprises a front part in the form of a combined body provided with an end shield, a front wall, a base module on the bottom side comprising a base body and a process air lid, a rear module comprising the rear wall, a heating device and a cover. The joining surfaces between the modular units are located on a vertical plane. Connections are constructed in such a way that they are devoid of sealing elements which are currently used for joining surfaces. With respect to known embodiments, the inventive clothes dryer structural design is producible with a low material consumption and, in general, can be produced in a more rational manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Lothar Dittmer, Holger Löffler
  • Patent number: 7913415
    Abstract: The device for drying laundry 1 by means of a current of air comprises a drum 2 to accommodate the laundry 1 and a ducting system 4, 5, 6, to direct said current of air. The ducting system 4, 5, 6 has a section 4 arranged downstream of the drum 2, in which the current of air is directed downwards and in which is arranged a filter 8 to capture lint 9 from the current of air. A scraper 15 is assigned to the filter 8, in order to scrape off the lint 9. The receptacle 19, 20 has a handle 21 and two interlinked shell elements (19, 20) which can be separated from each other, and which define a storage volume to accommodate the scraped-off lint (9). According to the invention, lint 9 thus scraped off can be removed from the device and disposed of, without the user needing to come into direct contact with the lint 9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Roman Goldberg, Kai Nitschmann
  • Patent number: 7805856
    Abstract: A device for drying laundry by means of a current of air includes a drum to accommodate the laundry and a ducting system to direct the current of air. The ducting system has a section arranged downstream of the drum in which a filter is arranged to capture lint from the current of air. A scraper is movably mounted over the filter. This filter is a channel arranged in an approximately horizontal manner and in the form of an inverted arch. The scraper has a foil resting on the filter in a sprung manner, the scraper being curved in accordance with the shape of the channel. Moving the scraper along the longitudinal axis of the filter scrapes lint off the filter and into a collection reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Jörg Gaβmann, Roman Goldberg, Kai Nitschmann
  • Patent number: 7802375
    Abstract: A lint screen assembly for a clothes dryer has a scraper blade within an open frame which mounts a lint screen panel to enable scraping out accumulated lint therefrom. The scraper blade is pivotable from a stowed position to an on-edge operative position and guided when being stroked across the lint screen panels by pivot pins captured in slots in opposite side members of the open frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Inventor: Michael Johnson
  • Publication number: 20100146809
    Abstract: A condensation dryer includes a drying chamber for objects to be dried, a process air channel, a heater in the process air channel for heating the process air, a heat exchanger in the process air channel for cooling the process air after passing through the drying chamber, a fan in the process air channel for conveying the process air, a rinsing container connected to a water supply, and a controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERATE GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus Grunert, Uwe-Jens Krausch, Günter Steffens
  • Publication number: 20100132215
    Abstract: In a mixer, in particular a tumbling mixer, the components to be mixed often still have to be dried during mixing, therefore the wall portions of the mixer are air permeable for force inducting drying air. In order to operate such a mixer contamination free for the ambient, it is proposed to cover the portions of the mixer with permeable walls on the outside with a cover, in particular a flexible foil, which is held tight at the mixer above and below the air permeable portions, so that drying air can be inducted between the foil and the mixer into the air permeable portions. Subsequently, the contaminated foil and the drum are provided to reprocessing or disposal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventor: Richard Denk
  • Publication number: 20100058605
    Abstract: A clothes dryer having an improved configuration to allow a user to safely pull out a water tank is disclosed. The clothes dryer includes a body having a water tank housing, a water tank detachably mounted into the water tank housing and serving to store water collected from an object to be dried, and a safety guide to limit movement of the water tank in a first direction when the water tank is separated from the water tank housing in the first direction, so as to allow a user to guide movement of the water tank in a second direction. The safety guide includes a first stopper provided at the water tank housing, and a second stopper provided at the water tank to correspond to the first stopper when the water tank is separated in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Min Hee KANG
  • Publication number: 20100011608
    Abstract: An exhaust air dryer with a drying chamber for items to be dried. The dryer includes a process air fan, a heat exchanger which includes a heat source, a heat sink of a heat pump, and a flushing device for flushing of a first inflow surface of the heat source and a second inflow surface of the heat sink with a liquid which is assigned to the heat source and the heat sink for removing of soil; and air ducts interconnecting the drying chamber, the process air fan, and the heat exchanger for conducting process air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Grunert, Uwe-Jens Krausch, Günter Steffens, Andreas Stolze
  • Publication number: 20090158933
    Abstract: A lint filter device for an airflow in a tumble dryer, comprising an endlessly circulating element, arranged around at least two deflector elements and positioned such as to be crossed by the airflow. The circulating element has an upper edge and a lower edge and first engaging elements are arranged on at least one of the two edges which, on opening a loading door of the tumble dryer may come to cooperate with at least one second engaging element, arranged inside the tumble dryer such that, on the opening process of the loading door, the circulating element may be automatically moved in a circulating direction and may be passed across at least one device for the removal of lint from the circulating element. The invention further relates to a method for cleaning such a lint filter device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
    Inventor: Hartmut Schaub
  • Publication number: 20090019718
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for cleaning jacks in portable electronic components. In one embodiment of the present invention, an adaptor plug is designed having a hollow shaft and the end of the plug is designed with holes that communication with the hollow shaft. The plug can be inserted into a jack, which can operate to open one or more switches within the jack, thereby freeing any debris that may have accumulated under the switches. Compressed air can then be applied down the hollow shaft and out the holes in the plug to displace the debris and clean the jack. In another embodiment, the end of the plug can be constructed such that it rotates about an axis to increase the likelihood that the jack will be cleansed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Mittleman, Stephen Zadesky
  • Publication number: 20080235981
    Abstract: In a pin tenter, a wet film is conveyed and dried in a state that edges of the wet film are pierced by pins. The plurality of pins are fixed to a pin plate. The pin plate is supported by a pin carrier. The pin carrier is disposed between rails. Movement of the pin carrier is guided by the rails. Nitrogen gas is supplied through a nozzle to the inside of a rail cover in a gas purge area, and thus the inside of the rail cover is pressurized. Atmospheric gas containing solvent gas in the pin tenter is prevented from entering the inside of the rail cover. Accordingly, precipitation of additives and the like on the rails and the pin carrier is eliminated. A suction device sucks nitrogen gas together with foreign substances such as dust from the inside of the pressurized rail cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Moritaka KATO, Toshikazu NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20080196268
    Abstract: Disclosed is a filter cleaning apparatus and a ductless dryer adopting the same, the dryer having a main body, a drum rotatably mounted at the main body, a hot air supplying unit supplying hot air into the drum, a heat exchanger condensing and removing moisture contained in air exhausted from the drum, a circulation duct conducing the air exhausted from the drum to the heat exchanger, a filter installed in the circulation duct and filtering foreign substances contained in the air discharged from the drum, and a filter cleaning apparatus removing the foreign substances caught by the filter, thereby enhancing a user's convenience and reducing indoor air contamination which may occur in the course of removing the foreign substances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Inventors: Han-Yong Jung, Seung-Phyo Ahn, Sang-Ik Lee, Jea-Hyuk Wee, Yang-Ho Kim, Yoon-Seob Eom, Byeong-Jo Ryoo, Sung-Ho Song
  • Publication number: 20080148943
    Abstract: A modular lint collection system for a fabric dryer, comprising a lint collection frame having a plurality of lint screen retaining members associated therewith, and a plurality of lint collection screens connected to respective lint screen retaining members and arranged in a zigzag pattern. The lint collection screens are oriented in respective vertical planes with adjacent screens lying in intersecting relation to one another, such that the air flow being drawn through the dryer generally impinges the screens at an oblique angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicant: G.A. Braun Inc.
    Inventor: Ryan Blair
  • Publication number: 20080120864
    Abstract: A method of cleaning a solids outlet assembly of a material dryer including attaching a plurality of pulse nozzles to at least one surface of the solids outlet assembly, accumulating a solid material onto the at least one surface thereby forming an accumulated solid, and actuating periodically the plurality of pulse nozzles to discharge air bursts that dislodge and remove the accumulated solid from the at least one surface is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: M-I LLC
    Inventors: Tony Clarke, Richard Bingham
  • Publication number: 20080052953
    Abstract: A circulation-air generating unit directly generates circulation air that flows along a surface of a cleaning tank. The circulation air is applied to cleaning medium accumulated on the cleaning tank from a direction orthogonal to a direction of face of the cleaning medium to deliver and flow up the cleaning medium. The cleaning medium is flown up inside the cleaning tank by the force of the circulation air. The cleaning medium flowing inside the cleaning tank collides with a cleaning target object by high-velocity air supplied from a cleaning-medium accelerating unit to remove dust on the cleaning target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventors: Yoichi Okamoto, Yuusuke Taneda, Akihiro Fuchigami, Tatsuya Satoh
  • Publication number: 20080047159
    Abstract: A secondary lint trap couplable between a laundry dryer and a building-embedded vent duct. The trap has an elongate housing. Aligned inlet and outlet apertures are formed in bottom and top sides of the housing's rearward ends. A tray is removably insertable within the housing. A screened aperture in the tray is aligned between the inlet and outlet apertures when the tray is inserted within the housing. The housing is mountable above the dryer such that the inlet and outlet apertures extend rearwardly of the dryer. This facilitates coupling of the dryer's exhaust outlet to the inlet aperture through one 90° elbow via a first short, substantially straight, elbowless conduit; and facilitates coupling of the vent duct to the outlet aperture through one other 90° elbow collar via a second short, substantially straight, elbowless conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Applicant: ECCO HEATING PRODUCTS LTD.
    Inventor: David Thomas Mackay
  • Publication number: 20080026123
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for shelled almond pasteurization includes counter flowing raw shelled almonds in saturated steam for a four second interval to elevate the exterior surface of the shelled almond to a temperature exceeding 160 degrees Fahrenheit. Thereafter, the pasteurized almonds are counter flowed for a two second interval in dry air before discharge to further processing or to containers for shipment. Almond taste, texture, and appearance are unchanged during the pasteurization process. The apparatus includes a steam ladder (1) defining downward paths which alternately vary the major surfaces of the shelled almonds to exposure to upwardly counter flowing steam, and an underlying drying ladder (2) for drying the raw shelled almonds upon exit from the steam ladder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2004
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: Hilltop Ranch, Inc.
    Inventors: David Long, Jack Wilkey
  • Publication number: 20080005926
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for reducing lint accumulation from a clothes dryer exhaust in a dryer exhaust system, by increasing the airflow through the exhaust system over that generated by the dryer exhaust fan is described. A blower or fan is used to direct a flow of air into a flow coupler into which the dryer exhaust conduit is vented, such that the airflow reduces the pressure in the dryer exhaust conduit, thereby increasing the flow and reducing the accumulation of lint therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2006
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Inventor: David M. Goggin
  • Patent number: 7305775
    Abstract: Clothes drying machine comprising a rotating drum, an exhaust conduit into which flows the air issuing from the outlet aperture of the drum, a lint filter formed in the shape of a sector of a cylindrical surface, which is arranged in said exhaust conduit below said outlet aperture of the drum, with the axis thereof extending substantially parallel to the axis of rotation of the drum, in which there are provided automatic means adapted to ensure cleaning of said filter through a brushing action; said automatic means comprise a brush connected to an end portion of a moving arm, which is hinged, on the other end portion thereof opposite to said brush, on to a rotation pin, said moving arm being slidably linked with a driving pin which is rotating, by means of a respective rotation arm, about a driving spindle that is driven rotatably about its own axis by automatic driving devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.V.
    Inventors: Ugo Favret, Flavio Noviello