Patent ID: 6550157
Filing Date: 2003-04-22
Classification: D06F,F26B,Y10T

Abstract:
A clothes dryer vent system for hollow walls framed with scantling and covered with sheathing secured to the scantling, said walls having a hollow interior space that is uniformly, at least about 3Â½ inches wide, said vent system comprising:a rough-in box for recessed mounting within a hollow wall, said rough-in box having a substantially planar rear panel, side panels and nonparallel top and bottom panels, said side panels and said top and bottom panels intersecting and unitary with the rear panel, each side panel intersecting and unitary with both top and bottom panels, said rough-in box also having a depth no greater than about 4 inches, and a stub connector pipe affixed within said top panel, said stub connector pipe having a lower portion of oval-shaped cross section within the box that is couplable to a flexible dryer vent hose and an upper portion outside the box directly couplable to an oblong vent pipe having a minor cross-sectional dimension no greater than about 2 inches; and at least one section of oblong vent pipe interconnected between the rough-in box and an exterior vent.