Patent ID: 6067729
Filing Date: 2000-05-30
Classification: D06F

Abstract:
A shoe bar for holding at least one shoe in a clothes dryer having a rotatable drum that defines an inner diameter, the bar being made of a predetermined elastic material and having opposed first and second ends spaced apart a predetermined distance equal to between approximately 100 percent and 105 percent of the drum inner diameter when the bar is in a relaxed configuration, the bar having a width at the ends thereof less than the width of the interior of a selected shoe, the bar first end being insertable into the shoe, the bar being manually bendable to a bowed configuration and placable with a shoe into the drum with the toe of the shoe in contact with the drum inner diameter and the bar second end being placable proximate the drum inner diameter diametrically opposite the shoe, the bar then being releasable to enable the elastic material to exert a restoring force that tends to return the bar to the relaxed configuration, the bar remaining in a working configuration at which it presses the shoe against the drum inner diameter.