Patent ID: 7377052

Claim:
A low temperature clothes dryer, comprising: a generally rectangular drying chamber having opposed sidewalls, a rear wall, at least one front access door; a plurality of pairs of drying frame supports spaced along said opposed walls of said drying chamber and a plurality of removable drying frame screens having drying frames horizontally supported by said pairs of drying frame supports; an upper plenum, and a lower plenum, defining and being in communication with said drying chamber, wherein said lower plenum comprises a horizontal air flow distributing wall defining a plurality of air flow apertures communicating with the interior of said drying chamber, and wherein said upper plenum comprises a horizontal air flow receiving wall defining a plurality of air flow apertures communicating the said interior of said drying chamber; a clothes hanging bar supported by a pair of hanging bar supports located on said opposed walls of said said drying chamber proximate said air flow receiving wall of said upper plenum; a wet air return duct having an inlet connected with said rectangular drying chamber via said lower plenum and an outlet; a dehumidifier connected with said outlet of said wet air return duct, said dehumidifier having an expansion coil condenser in fluid communication with said wet air return duct, a circulating fan, and a heat radiator; a baffle within said dehumidifier and a compressor, said compressor being separated from the air circulating interior of said dehumidifier, said compressor being vented to the exterior of said clothes dryer so as to carry heat developed thereby to the surrounding atmosphere; and an air recycle duct having an inlet in fluid communication with said heat radiator of said dehumidifier and an outlet in fluid communication with said upper plenum, said air recycle duct having an upper portion and a lower portion, said upper portion being connected with said upper plenum, said lower portion forming a wet air return duct being in fluid communication with said expansion coil condenser of said dehumidifier; said drying chamber, said wet air return duct, said dehumidifier, and said recycle duct forming a closed, circulating air drying system, said circulating air drying system being in the form of a cabinet, said cabinet forming a dehumidifying module enclosure beneath said drying chamber, said dehumidifying module being open at the rear for dissipation of heat from said compressor, said dehumidifying module having at least one front door for access to said dehumidifier.