Patent ID: 6880711

Claim:
A storage rack for the drying and storage of athletic clothing and equipment having outward surfaces which face outward from the athlete when worn and inward surfaces which bear upon the body of the athlete when being worn, the drying rack comprising: a hollow shell having an external face and an internal face defining an air chamber; an air passage carried by the shell and communicating with the air chamber; a plurality of apertures extending through the shell, wherein superatmospheric air flows from the air chamber, through the aperture and against the inward surface of the athletic clothing-and-equipment; wherein the air passage is constructed and arranged to flow superatmospheric air into the air chamber; a frame engaged to a ventilation grill; a flexible duct defining the air supply passage and engaged between the frame and the shell; and wherein forced air flowing through the ventilation grill flows into the air chamber as the superatmospheric air.