Hot air dryer room deodorizer

• US 4,383,377 A
• Filed: 11/19/1980
• Issued: 05/17/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bobby H. Lewis
• Original Assignee: Bobby H. Lewis
• Inventors: Crafton, Thomas W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Schwartz, Larry I.
• Application Number:
  US06/208,188
• Time in Patent Office: 909 Days
• Field of Search: 422/124, 422/125, 422/305, 239/57, 239/60, 239/129, 239/136, 219/276, 219/373, 34/60, 34/90, 34/91, 34/202, 34/243 R
• US Class Current: 34/60
• 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: A61L 9/03 Apparatus therefor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 261/88 Aroma dispensers

Abstract

Apparatus for efficiently and inexpensively deodorizing rooms, such as restrooms in commercial establishments, on an as needed basis is disclosed. The apparatus operates in conjunction with a standard hot air hand dryer commonly found in public and commercial washrooms, restrooms, showers, and the like. When the hot air dryer is used in conjunction with this invention, a powerful flow of air is moved past a deodorizer source thereby providing the deodorizing. Thus, the more useage of the hot air dryer, the more room deodorizing is provided. The apparatus includes a cup or housing container which is securely mounted or attached to the intake grill of the hot air hand dryer. The cup or container includes openings or apertures at selected locations such that the free flow of intake air is not inhibited. There is also included, in an unobvious location of the cup, a larger opening or slot suitable for placing a stick or disk of a vaporizable deodorizer in the container. Thus, in operation, the cold air is drawn through the apertures of the cup or container pass the deodorizing source on and into the hot air dryer itself. This cold air with the vaporizable deodorizer suspended therewith is then heated and used in the normal way for hot air drying. Thus, it will be appreciated that the deodorized air is exhausted as hot deodorized air from the hot air dryer.

Claims

1. A combination room deodorizer and hot air hand dryer comprising:

a housing dedicated to containing said hot air hand dryer, and defining an air intake port and an air exhaust port;

electrical means permanently secured and located in said housing for heating air flowing therethrough;

air moving means permanently secured in said housing for drawing air into said housing through said intake port, past said means for heating, and exhausting heated air from said housing through said exhaust port for drying hands;

electrical driving means permanently secured in said housing for driving said air moving means;

electrical switching means operable from outside said housing for providing electrical energy to said electrical driving means;

container means detachably secured outside of said housing and juxtaposed said intake port of said housing, said container means defining an opening having selected cross-sectional dimensions so as to prevent the insertion of foreign objects; and

a vaporizable deodorizer having initial cross-sectional dimensions substantially the same as said selected cross-sectional dimensional of said opening and located in said container means such that air is drawn past said deodorizer prior to entering said intake port, and heated air containing vapor from said deodorizer is exhausted through said exhaust port for drying hands and deodorizing the surrounding environment.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said selected shape is serpentine shape.