Dryer basket for sneakers insertable into a clothes dryer

• US 5,743,025 A
• Filed: 04/03/1997
• Issued: 04/28/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Zymed Medical Instrumentation Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Zymed Medical Instrumentation Incorporated
• Inventors: Jordan, Richard W. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bennett, Henry A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US08/831,901
• Time in Patent Office: 390 Days
• Field of Search: 34/90, 34/104, 34/109, 34/202, 34/204, 34/237, 34/239, 34/240, D32/36
• US Class Current: 34/600
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 58/04 Details controlling or regulating devices D06F34/00

Abstract

A dryer basket for sneakers including a plurality of baskets. A plurality of mounting brackets are secured within a dryer drum of a dryer adjacent to tumblers of the dryer. The mounting brackets each are removably secured to the baskets whereby the baskets are removably secured within the dryer drum adjacent to the tumblers.

Claims

1. A dryer basket for sneakers for allowing laundered sneakers to be dried in an automatic dryer without any noise comprising, in combination:

three baskets, each of the baskets having a curved upper wall, a curved lower wall, an interior wall, an open exterior wall, and opposed side walls, the open exterior wall having a door hingedly secured thereto, a pair of lid clips secured to an upper edge of the open exterior wall for engaging the door in a closed orientation to form an enclosure, the curved lower wall having a pivot clip rotatably disposed within a slot formed through the curved lower wall, the pivot clip having an upper arm and a lower arm, the curved lower wall having a retaining pin extending downwardly therefrom, the retaining pin having an enlarged lower end;

three mounting brackets, each of the mounting brackets having a planar upper surface, a planar lower surface and opposed curved end portions, the planar lower surface having an adhesive layer disposed thereon, the three mounting brackets secured within a dryer drum of a dryer adjacent to tumblers of the dryer, the planar upper surface of each mounting bracket having a clip receiving slot and a pin receiving slot formed therein, the clip receiving slot dimensioned for receiving the lower arm of the pivot clip therein and the pin receiving slot dimensioned for receiving the enlarged lower end of the retaining pin therein whereby the three baskets are secured within the dryer drum adjacent to the tumblers; and

at least one balancing weight, the balancing weight comprising a container holding a predetermined amount of sand therein, the container having an open threaded collar to facilitate adding to and removing sand from the container, a lid removably coupling with the collar, the balancing weight positionable within one of the baskets.

2. A dryer basket for sneakers comprising:

a plurality of baskets;

a plurality of mounting brackets secured within a dryer drum of a dryer adjacent to tumblers of the dryer, the mounting brackets each having means for securement to the baskets whereby the baskets are removably secured within the dryer drum adjacent to the tumblers.

3. The dryer basket as set forth in claim 2 and further including at least one balancing weight, the balancing weight positionable within the baskets.

4. The dryer basket as set forth in claim 3 wherein the balancing weight comprising a container holding a predetermined amount of sand therein.

5. The dryer basket as set forth in claim 4 wherein the container having an open threaded collar to facilitate adding to and removing sand from the container, a lid removably coupling with the collar.

6. The dryer basket as set forth in claim 2 wherein each of the baskets having a curved upper wall, a curved lower wall, an interior wall, an open exterior wall, and opposed side walls, the open exterior wall having a door hingedly secured thereto, a pair of lid clips secured to an upper edge of the open exterior wall for engaging the door in a closed orientation to form an enclosure.

7. The dryer basket as set forth in claim 2 wherein the means for securement including a pivot clip rotatably disposed within a slot formed through the baskets, the pivot clip having an upper arm and a lower arm, the baskets having a retaining pin extending downwardly therefrom, the retaining pin having an enlarged lower end, the mounting brackets having a clip receiving slot and a pin receiving slot formed therein, the clip receiving slot dimensioned for receiving the lower arm of the pivot clip therein and the pin receiving slot dimensioned for receiving the enlarged lower end of the retaining pin therein.