Patent ID: 9580859
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: B01D,D06F,F26B

Claim:
1. A lint retention apparatus for a laundry drying appliance having a process air channel that recirculates process air from a drying chamber to a condenser and from the condenser to the dryer chamber, the lint retention apparatus comprising: a lint separator located at a position in the process air channel that is between the drying chamber and the condenser, the lint separator including a filter bag; and a lint wetter connected upstream of the filter bag such that lint in the process air is wetted by fluid in the form of vapor or mist particles from the lint wetter before the process air enters the filter bag, and the vapor or mist particles and lint combine to form conglomerations upstream of the filter bag that readily adhere to an inner surface of the filter bag; wherein all of the process air that reaches the condenser flows through the filter bag.