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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 1988
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1986
James I Czech, Lincoln Township, Berrien County, MI (US);
Creston J Bruce, St. Joseph Township, Berrien County, MI (US);
Onavie L Griffith, Lincoln Township, Berrien County, MI (US);
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
An automatic clothes dryer includes a lint screen mounted within a lint screen assembly to filter lint entrained in an air flow stream during the drying operation. The lint screen assembly includes a shaped housing spaced close to the peripheral edges of the screen's lint collecting surface, yet spaced further from the screen's midportion to enable quantities of lint to accumulate on the screen and still be removed from the dryer without the risk of the lint falling from the lint screen. The lint screen assembly is held within the dryer only by a pair of fastening screws.