Portable, Compact, Flexible and Reusable Washing Machine and Dryer for Small Articles of Clothing

Abstract

A sealable plastic bag for one or more articles of clothing to be washed and at least partially dried with a large top opening and a separate valve for allowing heated air from a hair dryer to enter and be exhausted from the bag. The bag can contain a pre-measured quantity of detergent behind a frangible or otherwise breakable wall so that when water is placed into the bag, the detergent can mix therewith when the wall is destroyed. The bag then can be kneaded and serves a small, portable, clean, washing machine, with the ability to exchange the water for cleaner water and then to dry the same with the hair dryer.

1 . A portable and lightweight washing and drying device for clothes comprising:
 a thin, plastic and kneadable bag having a pair of opposed sides, opposed and sealed-together lateral edges, sealed-together bottom edges and a top opening defined by opposed top edges, the sides, and sealed edges, sealed bottom edges and top opening defining a cavity large enough for holding one or more articles of clothing and a sealing mechanism selectively allowing sealing and unsealing of said top opening and providing selective access to said cavity;   said top opening being sufficiently large to allow one or more garments to be selectively placed into said bag and removed therefrom; and   a valve mechanism allowing the passage of air from a consumer-sized hair dryer into and air out of said bag but at the same time not allowing liquid water to pass therethrough and said valve mechanism further comprising a cylindrical, outwardly extending, from one of said opposed sides, short supporting wall of suitable sized diameter for secured yet selective detachable receipt of a distal end of a cylindrical nozzle of a consumer's sized hand held hair dryer.   
     
     
         2 . (canceled) 
     
     
         3 . A device as claimed in  claim 1  bearing printed information thereon relating to the steps to follow to wash and/or dry clothes by use of said device along with the addition of water into the cavity. 
     
     
         4 . A device as claimed in  claim 1  bearing printed lines thereon reflective of the maximum amount of any one or more of the following to be placed into the bag for washing and drying: quantity of clothes, quantity of detergent or soap, quantity of water. 
     
     
         5 . A device as claimed in  claim 1  wherein said sealing mechanism is a slide secured to the opposed top edges of said bag. 
     
     
         6 . A device as claimed in  claim 1  wherein said bag further comprises a second valve for allowing the free flow of water and/or air into and out of said bag. 
     
     
         7 . A device as claimed in  claim 1  further comprising a frangible membrane which divides said cavity within said bag into two separate compartments—one large and a relatively small adjacent compartment which is in fluid communication with said large compartment when said frangible membrane is broken. 
     
     
         8 . A device as claimed in claim  7  wherein said frangible membrane is water dissolvable and said relatively small compartment contains soap. 
     
     
         9 . (canceled) 
     
     
         10 . (canceled)