Patent ID: 7225562
Filing Date: 2007-06-05
Classification: D06F,F16H

Abstract:
1. A clothes drying appliance including: a cabinet or surround structure, a drum, a drum support structure supporting said drum for rotation, a drive motor with a drive pulley, a belt passing around said drive pulley of said drive motor and around said drum for driving rotation of said drum in a direction dependant on the direction of rotation of said motor, and a belt tensioning device including a pair of spaced apart tensioning pulleys, each having an axis of rotation substantially parallel with the axis of rotation of said drive pulley, with the line between the centres of said tensioning pulleys separating said drive pulley from said drum, said tensioning pulleys spaced sufficiently close to impinge upon the path of said belt passing around said drive pulley and said drum, and a biasing agent pressing said tensioning pulleys away from said drive pulley and toward said drum.