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US5396715:
Microwave clothes dryer and method with fire protection
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Smith, Richard D.; Palo Alto, CA
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| Assignee: |
Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA
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| Published / Filed: |
1995-03-14
/ 1994-06-09
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| Application Number: |
US1994000257180
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
D06F 58/20;
D06F 58/26;
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IPC-7:
F26B 3/34;
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| ECLA Code: |
D06F58/26M; D06F58/20B;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
034/261;
034/494;
034/544;
219/710;
Original:
034/261;
034/494;
034/544;
219/710;
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| Field of Search: |
034/544,259,260,261,265,494
219/678,710-713
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| Priority Number: |
| 1994-06-09 |
US1994000257180 |
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| Abstract: |
Microwave clothes dryer and method in which water is introduced into the chamber in response to detection of an impending fire to immediately increase the moisture content of the clothes throughout the chamber to a level which will not sustain combustion.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Flehr, Hohbach, Test, Albritton & Herbert ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Gromada, Denise L.;
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| Family: |
None
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First Claim:
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I claim:
1. In a microwave clothes dryer: a chamber for holding clothes to be dried, means for introducing microwave energy into the chamber to evaporate moisture in the clothes, means for detecting an impending fire in the chamber, and means responsive to detection of an impending fire for introducing water into the chamber to wet the clothes throughout the chamber to a moisture content on the order of 100 percent.
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