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An improved clothes dryer construction including a metal dryer drum, front and rear bulkheads, front and rear wear rings, and a plurality of wear pins. The dryer drum is generally cylindrical and provides front and rear annular lips over which the wear rings are mounted and which coaxially nests ove

An improved clothes dryer construction including a metal dryer drum, front and rear bulkheads, front and rear wear rings, and a plurality of wear pins. The dryer drum is generally cylindrical and provides front and rear annular lips over which the wear rings are mounted and which coaxially nests over a support ring provided by each of the bulkheads. The wear rings, which seal the space between the lips and the support rings, have a series of openings which align with apertures in the annular lips. The wear pins extend through the openings in the wear rings and are snap-fit into the apertures to secure the wear rings to the annular lips. The wear pins serve as a supplemental bearing to support the dryer drum should the wear rings wear out over time.

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An assembly for rotatably supporting a clothes dryer drum and for sealing a space between an annular lip of the drum and a support ring extending from a bulkhead, said assembly comprising a wear ring and a plurality of wear pins, said wear pins securing said wear ring to one of said annular lip or s

An assembly for rotatably supporting a clothes dryer drum and for sealing a space between an annular lip of the drum and a support ring extending from a bulkhead, said assembly comprising a wear ring and a plurality of wear pins, said wear pins securing said wear ring to one of said annular lip or said support ring, wherein said wear ring seals the space between said annular lip and said support ring and rotatably supports the drum, and wherein said wear pins are formed from a low friction material.