Bathroom body, hand, and hair drier

• US 3,878,621 A
• Filed: 07/08/1974
• Issued: 04/22/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Dennis L. Duerre
• Original Assignee: Dennis L. Duerre
• Inventors: Duerre, Dennis L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sprague, Kenneth W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yeung, James C.
• Application Number:
  US05/486,310
• Time in Patent Office: 288 Days
• Field of Search: 34/90,151,163,218,230-234,240,241,243R 219/370,371 165/121,122
• US Class Current: 34/90
• 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

Abstract

A wall mounted drier having separately opening louvers, and nozzles for drying separately or in combination the hands, hair, feet or the entire body and including dual squirrel cage turbines for driving heated air at a sufficient velocity to effect rapid drying.

Claims

1. A body drying apparatus comprising:

a. an enclosed elongated housing having an air inlet port adjacent an end and a plurality of air discharge openings formed in a side which is in a generally vertical plane and said openings are located in said side a selected vertical distance for effectively blowing heated air over an area about the height of a human being;

b. a squirrel cage turbine mounted on a generally vertical axis within said housing;

c. a shroud mounted within said housing and forming a passage between said inlet port and said squirrel cage turbine and from said turbine to said discharge openings;

d. an electrical heating element mounted in said passage between said inlet opening and said squirrel cage turbine;

e. motor means for driving said squirrel cage turbine;

f. a manually operable closure means mounted in said air discharge openings for selectively closing said discharge openings;

g. said discharge openings being located in said housing side in a plurality of generally vertical aligned rows;

h. a second squirrel cage turbine mounted in said housing generally parallel to said first squirrel cage turbine; and

i. a second shroud separating said first turbine from said second turbine throughout the length of said turbines and connecting said inlet and outlet opening with said second squirrel cage turbine.

2. A body drying apparatus as described in claim 1 comprising:

a. an elongated flexible conduit operatively connected to an outlet opening;

b. a nozzle operatively connected to said flexible conduit and having a valve movable between a first open position and a second closed position; and

c. said nozzle being adapted for hand held operation to dry the hair.

3. A body drying apparatus as described in claim 1 comprising:

a. at least one of said openings at about hand height being formed with a plurality of louvers movable between a first closed position and a second open position.

4. A body drying apparatus as described in claim 1 comprising:

a. a plurality of said manually operable closure means including tubular members mounted for rotation about a vertical axis between a first open position and a second closed position and said tubular members being fully enclosed except for an inlet slit and an outlet slit; and

b. said tubular members being mounted in a seat member having a slit therein for selective registration with said inlet slit of said tubular member when said tubular member is in said first position.