BODY DRYING APPARATUS

• US 3,621,199 A
• Filed: 11/14/1969
• Issued: 11/16/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Arthur Goldstein, 375 Milton Road
• Original Assignee: Arthur Goldstein, 375 Milton Road
• Inventors: Arthur Goldstein, 375 Milton Road
• Primary Examiner(s): J. V. Truhe
• Assistant Examiner(s): C. L. Albritton
• Application Number:
  US04/876,949
• Time in Patent Office: 732 Days
• Field of Search: 34/229,34,53,243 98/39,40 126/110 219/341,213,347-349,363,364,366-371,373,377 230/259,270,271 165/126
• US Class Current: 392/381
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 20/16 Fixed installed drying devices
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 10/48 Drying by means of hot air hair-drying devices A45D20/00; curative hot-air baths A61H33/06; electric heating elements H05B
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2007/006 of gas
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 7/0085 Devices for generating hot or cold treatment fluids
• CPC Class Codes: F24H 3/0405 using electric energy supply, e.g. the heating medium being a resistive element; Heating by direct contact, i.e. with resistive elements, electrodes and fins being bonded together without additional element in-between F24H3/06, F24H3/08, F24H3/10 take precedence

Abstract

An apparatus is provided for drying the whole body of a person by hot air with the assistance of paper or other towels. The apparatus comprises a conduit or duct for hot air having an outlet. A deflector is arranged to deflect a stream of hot air issuing from the outlet, and is oscillated so as to cause the stream of air to sweep upwards and downwards over the body.

Claims

1. An apparatus for hot air drying of the body of a person comprising a conduit for the passage of hot air therethrough, said conduit having an air inlet and an air outlet at opposite ends thereof, continuously operable means adjacent the inlet to preheat air, second air heating means within the conduit and spaced between the air preheating means and the air outlet, means to activate said second heating means, means to move air through the conduit, means to activate the air moving means, an air deflector disposed within and adjacent the outlet end of the conduit, and means to oscillate said deflector about a horizontal axis to direct heated air issuing from the outlet responsive to activation of the second air heating means and air moving means upwards and downwards from a horizontal line.

2. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1 including a pair of outlets through which hot air can issue the two outlets being arranged one above the other, a pair of air passageways adjacent the outlet end of the conduit through which hot air can pass, one of the passageways communicating with an outlet and one of the passageways tapering towards its outlet, and a pair of deflectors one of which is arranged at each outlet to deflect a stream of hot air issuing from each outlet, and means for oscillating each of the deflectors about a horizontal axis to and from positions in which they substantially close the outlets, the deflectors being also arranged so to cause the air issuing from the outlets to sweep upwards and downwards over the body of a person standing in front of the outlet.

3. An apparatus as claimed in claim 2 wherein the tapering conduit has a smaller cross-sectional area than the other conduit and is arranged to direct air on to the lower deflector flap, the larger conduit being arranged to direct air on to the upper deflector flap having an upper concave surface.

4. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein said conduit is provided with two outlets and each outlet has a deflector, one of said deflectors being mounted to direct air over the lower half of said body and the other of said deflectors being mounted to direct air over the upper half of said body.

5. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said conduit has a plurality of outlets, a plurality of deflectors one of which is located at each outlet, each said deflector including a curved flap mounted for rotation about a horizontal axis, said flaps being mounted to provide an upper concave surface, a flap actuator drive motor and a flap actuating rod connecting said motor with said flaps.

6. An apparatus as claimed in claim 5 in which said drive motor is connected with said actuating rod by means of a crank and a slipping clutch.

7. An apparatus as claimed in claim 5 comprising a blower for passing air through said conduit, means for driving said blower, an electric heater operable to heat air passing through said conduit, means for setting said blower and said heater in operation, and an electric timing device arranged to be set in operation when said blower and said heater are set in operation operable after a first predetermined time to reduce the amount of heat provided by said heater subsequently after a second predetermined time to switch off said heater and said blower.

8. An apparatus as claimed in claim 6 comprising a coin freed mechanism operable to set said blower, said heater and said timing device in operation.

9. An apparatus as in claim 1, including coin freed means to activate said blower and said second air heating means independent of the first air heating means.

10. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein said conduit is provided with two outlets and there is provided a deflector for each outlet, one of said deflectors being arranged to direct air downwardly from said horizontal line and the other of said deflectors being arranged to direct air upwardly from the horizontal line.

11. An apparatus as claimed in claim 10 wherein each deflector comprises a curved flap having an upper concave surface, a flap actuator drive motor and a flap actuating rod connecting said motor with said flaps.

12. An apparatus as claimed in claim 11 in which said drive motor is connected with said actuating rod by means of a crank and a slipping clutch.

13. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1 including a blower for moving the air through said conduit, means for actuating said blower and said second air heater, and an electric timing device operable on activation of said blower and said second heater after a first predetermined time to reduce the amount of heat provided by said second heater subsequently after a second predetermined time to deactivate said second heater and said blower.

14. An apparatus as claimed in claim 13 comprising a coin-freed mechanism to actiVate said blower, said heater and said timing device.