Shoe dryer bracket apparatus

• US 5,080,312 A
• Filed: 04/14/1991
• Issued: 01/14/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Timothy M. Ebey
• Original Assignee: Timothy M. Ebey
• Inventors: Ebey, Timothy M.
• Primary Examiner(s): CHIN SHUE, ALVIN C
• Application Number:
  US07/699,520
• Time in Patent Office: 275 Days
• Field of Search: 248/200.1, 248/316.1, 248/57, 248/176, 248/316.2, 248/316.4, 211/34, 211/35, 34/33, 34/104, 34/133, 34/197
• US Class Current: 248/316.4
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 58/04 Details controlling or regulating devices D06F34/00
• CPC Class Codes: F26B 11/0463 having internal elements, e.g. which are being moved or rotated by means other than the rotating drum wall F26B11/0404, F26B11/0445 take precedence

Abstract

A bracket structure including a tubular cylinder mounting a cylindrical piston therewithin, wherein the piston is biased exteriorly and coaxially of the cylinder, with a plurality of clamp members mounted at a spaced relationship about the tubular cylinder, with the tubular cylinder arranged for positioning within a wash drum of a washing machine organization.

Claims

1. A shoe dryer bracket apparatus arranged for securement between spaced vanes within a drum member, wherein the apparatus comprises,

a tubular cylinder, the tubular cylinder reciprocatingly receiving a cylindrical piston therewithin, and the cylindrical piston biased exteriorly and coaxially of the tubular cylinder, wherein the tubular cylinder and the cylindrical piston are defined along a central cylindrical axis, and

a first mounting link and a second mounting link, each fixedly mounted to an exterior surface of the tubular cylinder and orthogonally aligned relative to the central cylindrical axis, and

each mounting link orthogonally mounting a clamp member at each free terminal end of each mounting link spaced from the tubular cylinder, and

wherein each clamp member includes a support plate, the support plate including a support plate top surface and a support plate bottom surface, and each support plate bottom surface mounted to a respective mounting link, and each support plate including a first side spaced from and parallel to a second side, and a forward end wall spaced from and parallel a rear end wall, and a side flange coextensively mounted to the top surface of the support plate adjacent the second side, with the side flange including an exterior wall aligned with the second side, and including an interior side wall spaced from the exterior wall, with the interior wall defining an acute included angle between the interior wall and the top surface of the support plate, and

wherein the first mounting link and the second mounting link define an obtuse included angle therebetween, and

wherein the rear end wall includes a rear flange extending contiguously with the rear wall and medially thereof from the side flange to a plurality of spaced parallel slots, wherein the spaced parallels slots are arranged parallel relative to the forward and rear end wall, and further including a wedge shaped clamping flange, wherein the clamping flange is defined by a predetermined length and the support plate is defined by a predetermined length, wherein the wedge shaped clamping flange includes a plurality of shanks orthogonally mounted to a bottom surface of the clamping flange extending orthogonally to the bottom surface of the clamping flange, with the shank spaced apart the predetermined spacing, with each of the plurality of shanks extending through one of the plurality of parallel slots, and including a fastener securable to the shank extending exteriorly of the bottom surface of the support plate to align the clamping flange in a parallel relationship relative to the first side.

2. An apparatus as set forth in claim 1 wherein the top surface of the support plate includes a plurality of spaced parallel ribs and the bottom surface of the clamping flange includes a further plurality of spaced ribs, wherein a further plurality of spaced ribs are complementarily received within the spaced ribs of the support plate.