Quick connect device with magnet for clothes dryer exhaust hose

• US 5,318,328 A
• Filed: 06/11/1993
• Issued: 06/07/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hugh R. Dawson
• Original Assignee: Hugh R. Dawson
• Inventors: Dawson, Hugh R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nicholson, Eric K.
• Application Number:
  US08/076,415
• Time in Patent Office: 361 Days
• Field of Search: 285/175, 285/177, 285/9.1, 285/903, 285/423, 277/80, 439/38, 24/303, 403/DIG. 1, 34/235, 454/903
• US Class Current: 285/9.1
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 58/04 Details controlling or regulating devices D06F34/00
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 37/004 using magnets
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 285/903 Corrugated

Abstract

A quick connect device for coupling a vent or exhaust hose to the exhaust pipe of a clothes dryer or the like, the device having a tubular member of unitary construction with a first, female end portion and a second, male end portion; the first portion including magnetic material for magnetically engaging with a exhaust pipe of dryer, the second portion threadably engaged with an exhaust hose.

Claims

1. A quick connect device for coupling or connecting a vent or exhaust hose to the metallic exhaust pipe of a clothes dryer, said device comprising;

a tubular member of unitary construction having a first tubular end female portion and a second tubular end male portion, said first tubular end female portion having a larger diameter than said second tubular end male portion, said first tubular end female portion including a magnetic material which is disposed at the inner periphery of said first tubular end female portion for sliding magnetic coupling with the outer periphery of said metallic exhaust pipe.

2. A device as defined in claim 1, in which the tubular member is composed of polyvinylchloride.

3. A device as defined in claim 1, to which second tubular end portion is provided with grooves so as to engage threadably with said exhaust hose having a mating helical wire configuration.