Patent ID: 7658015

Claim:
A clothes drying device for drying clothes, said device comprising: a housing being positioned on a support surface, said housing including a top wall, a bottom wall and a perimeter wall extending between said bottom wall and said top wall to define an interior space of said housing; a drum assembly being mounted in said interior space of said housing, said drum assembly receiving the clothes to be dried, a hole in said perimeter wall of said housing being in communication with said drum assembly to allow the clothes to be placed in said drum assembly, said drum assembly including a sealed chamber being positioned in said interior space of said housing, said sealed chamber being mounted to said perimeter wall of said housing and extending into said interior space from said perimeter wall, said vacuum pump being in fluid communication with said sealed drum; a tumbling drum being positioned in said sealed chamber and extending around said hole, said tumbling drum being rotatably mounted to said sealed chamber, said tumbling drum receiving the clothes to be dried through said hole, said tumbling drum having a plurality of apertures extending therethrough to permit fluid communication with said sealed chamber; a vacuum pump being mounted in said interior space of said housing, said vacuum pump being in fluid communication with drum assembly to create a vacuum in said drum assembly to draw moisture out of the clothes in said drum assembly; a control assembly being electrically coupled to said vacuum pump to control said vacuum pump when said control assembly is actuated; a drive assembly being mounted to said housing and positioned in said interior space, said drive assembly being electrically coupled to said control assembly to control activation of said drive assembly, said drive assembly being operationally coupled to said drum assembly to actuate said drum assembly, said drive assembly including; motor being mounted to said housing; a drive disk being rotatably mounted to said housing, said drive disk being aligned with said drum assembly, said drive disk being operationally coupled to said motor, said motor rotating said drive disk when said motor is actuated; a plurality of drive magnets being coupled to said drive disk, said drive magnets being positioned between said drive disk and said drum assembly; and a plurality of drum magnets being coupled to said drum assembly, said drum magnets being magnetically influenced by said drive magnets to rotate a portion of said drum assembly when said drive disk is rotated.