Perforated Mitts for Pet Drying with Heated Blower
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for drying pets, such as using towels or hand-held electric hair dryers, are inefficient and difficult to control, as they require manual handling and have limited coverage area, making it time-consuming to dry an entire pet.
Innovation Solution
A dryer apparatus comprising perforated mitts connected by tubes to a heated blower, allowing users to wear the mitts and direct warm air along a pet's fur for efficient drying while maintaining control over the pet.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If a hand-held electric hair dryer is used to dry a pet, then the pet's fur can be dried with concentrated airflow, but the coverage area is small and drying time is long
Solution Approach 1:
The invention divides the drying system into multiple distributed airflow sources (mitts) that can be applied to different body parts of the pet simultaneously, rather than using a single concentrated airflow source. This segmentation allows parallel drying of multiple areas, significantly increasing overall drying productivity while maintaining effective temperature at each contact point.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention transitions from a single-point airflow application (hand-held dryer) to a distributed multi-point airflow system (multiple mitts). By adding the dimension of spatial distribution across the pet's body, the system achieves both concentrated airflow effect at each mitt and large overall coverage area, resolving the contradiction between temperature concentration and drying speed.
2Temperature
If a hand-held electric hair dryer is used to dry a pet, then concentrated airflow can be applied to the fur, but the operator cannot simultaneously control the pet
Solution Approach 1:
The invention merges the drying function with the operator's hands by incorporating heated airflow delivery directly into wearable mitts. This allows the operator to maintain physical contact and control the pet with both hands while simultaneously applying drying airflow, eliminating the need to choose between pet control and drying operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables the operator's own hands to serve dual purposes: controlling the pet and delivering drying airflow. The mitts are self-contained units that generate and deliver heated air independently, allowing the operator's hands to function as both control instruments and drying apparatus without requiring separate equipment.
3Area of stationary object
If a towel is used to dry a pet, then the pet can be dried with large coverage area, but the drying is not sufficient to completely dry the animal
Solution Approach 1:
The invention replaces the passive mechanical drying action of towels with active pneumatic airflow delivery through heated air. The forced convection of warm air through the mitts provides more effective and complete drying compared to the limited absorption capacity of towels, achieving both large coverage area and complete drying reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes the drying parameter from passive moisture absorption (towel) to active heated airflow (mitts). By introducing temperature and airflow velocity as controlling parameters, the system achieves superior drying completeness while maintaining large coverage area through the distributed mitt configuration.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables simultaneous control and drying of a pet's fur with increased coverage and reduced time, as the user can move their hands freely while the warm air from the mitts dries the pet's fur effectively.
Implementation Method 1
a heated blower 4. Warm air flows from the blower through the tubes to the mitts
Implementation Method 2
Warm air flows from the blower through the tubes to the mitts and out of the perforations in the mitts... to dry the pet with the aid of the moving air exiting the perforations
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus, a system and a method for drying pets include a blower that directs a flow of air through two tubes to two mitts. The two mitts receive the flow of air from the blower and direct the flow of air through perforations to dry the pet. The air may flow through tapered channels within the mitts.