Patent ID: 6829842
Filing Date: 2004-12-14
Classification: A47L

Abstract:
A portable storage container adapted to carry dancing shoes, said portable storage container comprising:a cylindrical tubular open-ended vessel having a permeable partition sleeve mounted between said open ends to define one end portion and an opposite end portion; a first permeable cylindrical cover member removably mounted to said one end portion of said tubular vessel, said first permeable cover member and said permeable partition sleeve defining a storage compartment portion such that said dancing shoes may be stored therein; a second permeable cylindrical cover member removably mounted to said opposite end portion of said open-ended cylindrical tubular vessel, said permeable cylindrical second cover member further comprising: an internal end surface having an aperture therein; an annular sleeve retainer member mounted to said internal end surface of said cover member; means for radially adjusting said annular sleeve retainer member, said means for radially adjusting mounted to said internal end surface of said cover member; a motor and fan assembly mounted to said annular sleeve retainer member such that when said second permeable cylindrical cover member is mounted to said opposite end portion of said cylindrical tubular vessel said fan of said motor and fan assembly is juxtaposed said permeable partition sleeve mounted between said open ends of said open-ended vessel; a battery power source mounted to said internal end surface of said cover member adjacent said annular sleeve member; and means for actuating said motor and fan assembly, said actuating means mounted to said internal end surface and projecting through said aperture therein whereby upon actuation of said motor and fan assembly by said actuating means an ambient airflow is established by the movement of said fan drawing air through said second permeable cylindrical cover member and pushing said same volume of air through said permeable partition sleeve across said storage compartment portion and through said first permeable cylindrical cover member to exit from said storage container thereby drying said dancing shoes stored in said storage container.