Patent ID: 7770305
Filing Date: 2010-08-10
Classification: D06F

Abstract:
1. A portable collapsible clothes dryer kit comprising, in combination: a first clothing article dryer unit for suspension from a coat hanger or other structural element and for facilitating drying of an article of clothing held by said first clothing article dryer unit, said first clothing article dryer unit including first and second spacer members for spreading the article of clothing to expose the inner surface of an article of clothing to ambient air and a plurality of downwardly extending, spaced, elongated flexible elements, each of said spacer members including a platform defining openings and an upwardly extending peripheral wall surrounding the platform, said first and second spacer members depending from said plurality of spaced, elongated flexible elements and spaced from one another when said first clothing article dryer unit is supported by a coat hanger or other structural element, said first and second spacer members being selectively movable relative to one another and relative to said plurality of spaced, elongated flexible elements for placement into engagement with one another for compact storage when said first clothing article dryer unit is removed from said coat hanger or other structural element, each of said spaced, elongated flexible elements passing through the platforms of both of said spacer members within the confines of the peripheral walls surrounding said platforms; first and second pairs of protrusions at spaced locations on each of said spaced, elongated flexible elements, said first spacer member being located between and engageable by the protrusions of said first pair of protrusions and said second spacer member being located between and engageable by the protrusions of said second pair of protrusions to maintain said spacer members spaced from one another on said spaced, elongated flexible elements with said spacer members forming an open-ended top to bottom inner air channel within an article of clothing held by said first clothing article drying unit to directly expose the inner surface of the article of clothing to ambient air, said holes in said platforms allowing for the passage of air through said platforms along said open-ended top to bottom inner air channel, said first clothing article dryer unit including a support to which said spaced, elongated flexible elements are connected and from which said spaced, elongated flexible elements depend, the outer diameter of the peripheral wall of said first spacer member being smaller than the outer diameter of the peripheral wall of said second spacer member whereby said first spacer member can be positioned on the platform of said second spacer member and nested within the confines of the peripheral wall of said second spacer member along with portions of said spaced, elongated flexible elements and said support located on the platform of said first spacer member; and a second clothing article dryer unit for releasable connection to a coat hanger for support thereby to spread an article of clothing to expose the inner surface of the article of clothing to ambient air, said second clothing article dryer unit being selectively removable from said coat hanger for placement into engagement with at least one of said first and second spacer members and support thereby for compact storage.