cannot be greater than the height or width whichever is smaller of the cabinet interior but an elliptical drum can be tailored to take full advantage of both the height and width dimensions of the cabinet interior second an elliptical drum can provide for a larger higher access opening to the drum as can be seen in fig2 and third an elliptical drum can provide more efficient drying and an improved finish to the items being dried because of the relatively long drop from the top to the bottom of the drum to which the items may be subjected as indicated in fig2 provided the drum is not overloaded thus as the drum rotates baffles 18 which may be attached to wall member 17 carry items being dried from the bottom to the upper portion of the drum and allow them to fall once again to the bottom as the items fall they tend to loosen up as opposed to being balled together and are more thoroughly exposed to the heated air flowing through the dryer drum this facilitates efficient drying of the items and in the case of permanent press items particularly large permanent press items such as sheets minimizes the extent to which wrinkles will be present in the.