Automatic dryer air outlet hose quick-disconnect coupling
CA 2078833 C · Owner: Imperial Sheet Metal Ltd. · Inventors: Lebrun, Mario
Overview
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A dual coupler assembly to be mounted to the back wall of an automatic clothes drying machine for use with the flexible hose fluidingly connecting the air outlet port of the drying machine to outside ambient air. A first coupler includes a cylindrical flue releasably anchored to the drying machine back wall, while a second coupler includes a cylindrical flue anchored to the laundry room floor; in one embodiment the flues are both, horizontal, while in a second embodiment the flues are vertical. In a third embodiment one hose coupler is slidable along a, ground rail integral to the second hose coupler the latter being, fixed to the ground; an operative position is defined where the, …
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- Filed September 22, 1992 and granted November 16, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 22, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by September 22, 2014.
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