Extendable Clothes Dryer

• US 20120132599A1
• Filed: 07/22/2010
• Published: 05/31/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Martin Robitaille
• Original Assignee: Martin Robitaille
• Inventors: Robitaille, Martin
• Application Number:
  US13/389,120
• Publication Number:
  US 20120132599A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 211/85.3
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 57/12 specially adapted for attachment to walls, ceilings, stoves, or other structures or objects
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 57/122 for attachment by clamping between two retaining-planes

Abstract

The present invention discloses an open air dryer having one or more layers of flexible clothes dryers. Each clothes dryer is made of at least one generally rectangular piece of breathable fabric or net like material mounted on two parallel support bars made of a rigid material. The length of each layer is fully adjustable. Each support bar is held by at least one hook and preferably two hooks to any external structures such as walls, dryer, washer or other self-supporting structure.

Claims

1. ) A clothes dryer adjustable in length and in tension to be fixed on and between at least a pair of substantially parallel wall structures or the like extending substantially vertically, and said adjustable clothes dryer may be installed between walls having variable distance between them, said dryer comprising:

a) at least one layer adjustable in length, said layer comprising;

a first support bar and a second support bar extending substantially horizontally, and;

a laundry support mesh extending between said support bars, wherein said laundry support mesh is removable from said support bars;

b) a supporting structure comprising;

retaining members, said retaining members securely fixed to said walls;

retainers fixed to said retaining members, said retainers being configured to receive said support bars;

wherein the length of each of said layers is adjustable in length in order to fit variable distance between said walls by rolling said laundry support mesh over at least one of said support bars to adjust the length of said layer to the width between said walls.

2. ) The clothes dryer of claim 1, further comprising at least one supplementary retaining member extending substantially parallel to said parallel walls, said supplementary retaining member being secured to a further wall perpendicular to said parallel walls.

3. ) The clothes dryer of claim 1, wherein said first support bar and said second support bar are parallel to said parallel walls.

4. ) The clothes dryer of claim 1, wherein said first support bar and said second support bar are perpendicular to said parallel walls.

5. ) The clothes dryer of claim 1, wherein said support bar is shaped as a hexagonal or an octagonal prism.

6. ) The clothes dryer of claim 1, wherein said support bar is made of rigid material such as wood, plastic or metal.

7. ) The clothes dryer of claim 1, wherein said laundry support mesh is made of a breathable fabric.

8. ) The clothes dryer of claim 1, wherein said retainer is a hook.