Decorative laundry dryer

Claim 1

Portable cabinet for use in association with a heating duct outlet in a building, warm air being emitted through said heating duct outlet, the cabinet comprising: a cabinet forward wall, and cabinet side walls, each of said walls having opposite upper and lower end portions; a top wall fixedly secured to the forward and side walls at a location spaced downwardly from the upper end portions thereof, and a back wall projecting upwardly from said top wall, the back wall and those portions of the side and forward wall above the top wall defining a well adapted to receive a decorative device; surface support means on the side walls adjacent the lower end portions thereof; brackets on the side walls above the surface support means; an elongated combined drip pan and laundry transport receptacle removably seated on the brackets and spanning the distance between the side walls; the forward wall having a series of air passage louvers formed therein below the top wall; mounting means on each of the side walls in transverse coalignment; and a series of laundry drying strand means suspended between said mounting means, the warm air from said duct being directed about laundry suspended on said laundry drying strand means and outwardly through said air passage louvers.