Abstract: Hair removing apparatus for a hand held hair dryer including a housing with an air inlet opening therein, the hair removing apparatus including a body portion, a dryer connecting portion, a hair collecting portion and a hair pickup portion; the body portion including a rigid tubular member with open ends and a substantially straight passage therethrough; the dryer connecting portion including adapter mechanism disposed adjacent one end of the tubular member, the adapter mechanism including a resilient section capable of mating with the periphery of the air inlet opening of the dryer housing; the hair collecting portion including an air permeable flexible filter bag disposed across and within the passage through the tubular member and extending substantially the full length of the body portion, the filter bag including a rigid ring member disposed adjacent and circumscribing the opening thereof, the ring member being engageable with the end of the tubular member remote from the dryer connecting portion, mechan

Abstract: Foldable garment dryer for use with a conventional hand-held hair dryer comprises a flexible bag for holding the garment. The air intake of the bag is connected to the air outlet nozzle of the hair dryer, and the humid air is expelled out of the bag through an exhaust. A stand supports the hair dryer.

Abstract: A lightweight, compact hair dryer is provided having a rigid case to contain a blower-heater arrangement for the provision of hot air, a collapsible hood structure having a structural support connected to the case in supported relation thereby, the case having an extensible stand portion for attachment of the hood in supported relation therewith, the hood support comprising a flexible band which can be rolled into a roll for storage within the box, and in the open condition when attached to the stand portion providing a free standing support portion of the hood structure. The hood further includes air inflatable bag means extending from the hood band to partially enclose the head of a user when in use, the walls of the bag having apertures located to direct hot air in drying relation with the user's head, provided from a hose connection to the blower heater.

Abstract: A multipurpose basic apparatus for treating powders which is applicable to various powder treatments including spray drying, fluidized bed drying and granulation and fluidized bed continuous drying, which apparatus comprises a lower frame provided with a piping having two openings facing upward, an upper frame provided with two openings facing downward which are respectively positioned in coaxially alined relation to the above mentioned two openings of the lower piping, a feed pump for a sample and a feed pipe for pressurized air, and a lift for moving the upper frame up and down, the apparatus being designed in such a manner that either one or two of a fluidizing chamber, a filter chamber, and a spray drying chamber can be connected between one opening of the lower piping and the corresponding opening of the upper piping, and the other openings of the upper and lower pipings can be provided with one or more of a heater, an aspirator, and a cyclone.

Abstract: An apparatus for applying a mixture of air and vapor to the face or hair includes an evaporator comprising a closed tank partially filled with water to leave a residual space thereabove and provided with an electric heater immersed in the water for generating a steam which fills the residual space. A first downwardly sloping tube connects the an attachment, located higher than the tank and adapted to fit on the head or face to be treated, to the residual space. A upwardly sloping second tube connects the outlet of a fan positioned lower than the tank to the residual space. Both the temperature and the flow of the vapor-air mixture can be varied by changing not only the power of the electric heater but also the rotational speed of the fan.

Abstract: A convertible barn for grain or tobacco curing formed from a structural rail-like frame supporting metallic walls and roof made of corrugated sheets and the like and providing a floorless base frame arrangement that includes a longitudinally extending center beam for housing an auger element rotatable through its longitudinal length by a detachable power unit positioned externally of the barn.The structure includes at one end a furnace room for supplying heat through its base area. The base area of the barn may be covered by a removable perforated flooring when the barn is used for curing grain and the like.

Abstract: Apparatus for drying small laundered garments, such as women's pantyhose, characterized by a box-like compartment through which hot air may be delivered by a conventional portable hair dryer. Its walls are connected by hinges so that it may be folded to flat configuration when not in use. It may be constructed of inexpensive cardboard, utilizing conventional paper processing machines.

Abstract: Apparatus for drying tobacco which is caused to pass through a steam-heated rotating drum has a blower for admission of hot air into a first conduit which discharges hot air into the inlet of the drum or into a second conduit which discharges hot air into the outlet of the drum. The temperature of hot air which flows into the inlet is regulated in dependency on changes in moisture content of tobacco ahead of the drum, and the temperature of hot air which flows into the outlet is regulated in dependency on changes in moisture content of dried tobacco. A first pipe draws vapors-containing air from the outlet when the drum receives hot air via first conduit, and a second pipe draws vapors-containing air from the inlet when the drum receives hot air from the second conduit.

Abstract: A vapor generating hair styling implement is arranged to style hair in contact with a cylindrical adaptor tube. The adaptor tube is detachably coupled to a handle and is in thermal contact with a heat and steam generating means. The adaptor tube may be rotated about its longitudinal axis independent of rotational movement of the heat and steam generating means.

Abstract: In a hair dryer having an electric selectively variable motor driven fan, and plural wattage heaters in the fan stream for selectively heating the air and having thermostat means sensing air temperature to shut off the dryer on an over-temperature condition, an improvement is provided in a combination switch and sliding contact variable control for heat and speed that comprises an elongated continuous bus bar connected to one side of the line with two separate sets of discrete spaced contacts being spaced on opposite sides of the bus bar parallel thereto and to each other. Two separate sliding means are provided each being sized to bridge at least two spaced contacts in a set as it moves along the bar parallel to the other sliding means.

Abstract: A drying hair curler for use with an electric hair dryer having a tubular end through which pumped heated air is expelled. The curler comprises a coupling section mountable on the tubular end and an axially aligned concentric and smaller tubular section adjacent the coupling downstream thereof so that it receives a core of the expelled air from the coupling. The smaller section has peripheral apertures for outward radial air flow and the coupling section forms a bypass directing air axially along the outer surface of the smaller tubular section so that hair wound on the curler receives both radial and axial hot air flow simultaneously for better drying.

Abstract: A hair dryer with a vapor ejection means, the vapor ejection means includes a vapor nozzle, a tank adapted to contain liquid therein, an evaporation chamber heated by a heater and a feeder for feeding the liquid from the tank into the evaporation chamber. Formation of hot drops is prevented by longitudinal inner and outer nozzles, each with a separate discharge ends in the vapor nozzle, both with nozzle outer ends. The inner nozzle is longitudinally within the outer nozzle, the discharge end of said inner nozzle being inward from, and separate from the discharge end of the outer nozzle. In both the nozzle discharge ends there are inwardly disposed annular recesses to prevent liquid drops from falling from the outer nozzle outer end.

Abstract: A portable hair dryer which includes an air inlet and air outlet and a rotor for drawing air through the dryer in combination with a comb detachably secured to the dryer housing. Cooperative means on the comb and dryer housing for detachably securing the comb includes bars on the comb which are spaced apart both horizontally and vertically from the comb back and extends on opposite sides thereof and slots in the housing which extend longitudinally thereof in which the bars are longitudinally slidable.