EP0377803A1 - Fer à repasser à vapeur électrique - Google Patents

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EP0377803A1
EP0377803A1 EP89120546A EP89120546A EP0377803A1 EP 0377803 A1 EP0377803 A1 EP 0377803A1 EP 89120546 A EP89120546 A EP 89120546A EP 89120546 A EP89120546 A EP 89120546A EP 0377803 A1 EP0377803 A1 EP 0377803A1
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Bernd Lindstaedt
Günter Oppermann
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F75/00—Hand irons
    • D06F75/08—Hand irons internally heated by electricity
    • D06F75/10—Hand irons internally heated by electricity with means for supplying steam to the article being ironed
    • D06F75/20—Arrangements for discharging the steam to the article being ironed

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  • the invention relates to an electrically operated, tapering and manually operable steam iron with an evaporation chamber that can be fed with water from a water tank, which is connected to the atmosphere via steam outlet openings formed on a heated iron soleplate and which adjoins the iron soleplate to heat the evaporation chamber.
  • Such a steam iron is known from DE-B2 21 36 050.
  • the steam distribution on the ironing material is uneven, so that relatively frequent back and forth movements are required to achieve an optimal smoothing of the ironing material. This makes the ironing process time and energy consuming.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a steam iron with which the items to be ironed can be smoothed in a very short time, in particular on small ironing surfaces or also at problem areas such as buttons, folds and inner parts of pockets.
  • the invention takes into account the problem that steam is applied to the ironing surface of the items to be ironed more uniformly during the ironing process, thereby accelerating the smoothing process and thus reducing the ironing time. Also in particular When ironing small areas such as shirt collars, pockets, ironing corners, ironing areas around a button, etc., increased steam output in the front area of the soleplate is particularly advantageous.
  • the steam outlet openings are formed in steam guide channels connected to the evaporation chamber via passages.
  • the passages are formed by a slot embedded in a partition in the upper area, so that the lime that settles in the evaporation chamber during the evaporation process cannot escape through the steam outlet openings.
  • a uniform distribution of steam on the ironing material can be achieved in particular if the injection or dripping point for the water formed in the evaporation chamber is formed in the area of the soleplate tip, while the passages to the steam guide channels are formed on the rear area of the soleplate. Due to the relatively long steam path from the injection point to the steam outlet openings at the tip of the soleplate, the steam generated when the water is heated is heated sufficiently high so that in addition to the larger steam outlet openings at the tip of the soleplate, steam can also escape to a sufficient extent there.
  • the areas of the steam outlet openings continuously increase towards the tip of the iron soleplate.
  • this measure allows a further optimal steam distribution to be achieved on the material to be ironed. With a difference of the smallest to the largest area of the steam outlet openings of approximately a maximum of four times the amount, sufficiently good ironing results are still achieved.
  • FIGS. 1 to 2 To avoid repetitions, the same position numbers are used in FIGS. 1 to 2 for correspondingly identical components.
  • the steam iron consists of an iron soleplate 1, preferably made of aluminum, which is provided on its underside shown in Fig. 2 with a sliding sole 2, for example with a sliding layer, not shown in the drawing, for the purpose of lower friction of the Iron soleplate can be coated on an ironing good.
  • the iron soleplate 1 in FIG. 1 essentially consists of a base body 5 which forms the shape of an isosceles triangle, the side surfaces 3 of which are curved. The side surfaces 3 converge at their upper end in FIG. 1 to form an iron sole tip 44.
  • a wall 6 rises from the base body 5 runs around the soleplate 1 and which is self-contained.
  • the end face 7 formed in FIG. 2 at the upper edge of the wall 6 runs parallel to the sliding sole 2.
  • a shoulder 8 adjoins the end face 7 radially inward, which serves to receive, center and seal a cover 9.
  • FIG. 1 the soleplate 1 is shown in plan view with the cover 9 removed.
  • the vaporization chamber 10 enclosed in FIGS. 1 and 2 by the iron soleplate 1, the wall 6 and the lid 9 serves to generate and forward the vapor to the vapor outlet openings 11 formed in this chamber 10 on the base body 5, the one of the vaporization chamber 10 Establish a steam-conducting connection to the outside of the sliding sole 2.
  • Fig. 2 the drawing is followed by a housing provided with an iron handle, in which contact elements are provided for power supply, electronic switching elements for temperature control of the soleplate and a valve arrangement connected to a water tank for steam generation; however, these parts are not shown in the drawing.
  • the housing is centered and fastened on the soleplate 1 in FIG. 1 via centering bores 12 and via fastening means, which are not shown here.
  • the iron soleplate 1 has two threaded bores 13, via which a thermocouple controlling the temperature of the iron soleplate 1, which is not shown in the drawing, is fastened.
  • the platform 14 surrounding the upper threaded bore 13 in FIG. 1 serves as a flat support for the thermocouple on the heating element 15, in order to ensure a particularly good and rapid heat transfer from the heating element 15 to the thermocouple, so that the on and off behavior of the iron is particularly good is short.
  • a further threaded bore 16 is arranged, which is also surrounded by a second, circular platform 17 and which serves as a support for an overheating protection, not shown in the drawing, which interrupts the power supply to the heating element 15 when For example, the thermocouple is defective and the soleplate 1 would reach an impermissibly high temperature.
  • the threaded bores 18 to 21 serve for the pressure-tight fastening of the cover 9 on the wall 6.
  • the threaded bores 22 to 24 serve for fastening the housing provided with a handle on the soleplate 1.
  • a second wall 33 extends radially inside the wall 6, which begins on one side to the right of the center line 34 at the horizontally extending section of the first wall 6, which extends approximately to the second platform 17 at a distance from the left edge of the Leg 25 of the heating element 15 extends upward in the drawing, there turns, which then runs downward on the radially inner edge of the heating element 15, which bridges the heating element 15 horizontally slightly below the right of the centering hole 12, which then again on the radially outer edge of the Heating element 15 extends upwards in the drawing, which leaves the heating element 15 upward in the region of the threaded bore 19 and which then intersects the center line 34 via a circular arc 35 which forms the actual soleplate tip 44.
  • the second wall 33 runs symmetrically to the right wall 33.
  • the steam outlet chamber 36 formed by the wall 6, the second wall 33, the base body 5 and the cover 9 in FIG. 1 is connected to the evaporation chamber 10 via passages 37, as also shown in FIG. 2, which radially inside the steam guide channels 36 lies and in which the largest part of the heating element 15 is formed.
  • the passages 37 have a rectangular cross section.
  • the passages 37 are formed at the upper end of the second wall 33, so that the lime which is forced to settle in the evaporation chamber 10 due to the lime content of the water cannot precipitate in the steam guide channels 36.
  • the second wall 33 thus forms the function of a limescale but also a water barrier.
  • the steam outlet openings 11 run inside the steam outlet chamber 36 at the edge of the wall 6 and the second wall 33, the steam outlet openings 11, which are adjacent to each other in the longitudinal direction of the soleplate 1, have the same distance from one another.
  • the top three steam outlet openings according to FIG. 1 are provided with a larger cross section or diameter than the rest.
  • the drop-in area 41 shown in dashed lines in FIG. 1 for the amount of water discharged from the water tank via the valve arrangement lies radially inside the heating element 15 in the area of the section 42 connecting the two legs 25, 26.
  • the position of the drop-in area 41 was therefore chosen at this point, since in this area the heating element 15 drips richly surrounds 41 from three sides and therefore the highest temperature of the soleplate 1 occurs at this point.
  • Perpendicularly above the dripping-in area 41 at least one channel connected to the valve arrangement projects into the evaporation chamber 10 via an opening formed in the cover 9, the opening, the channel and the valve arrangement not being shown in the drawings.
  • the valve arrangement delivers drop or intermittent water from the storage tank into the evaporation chamber 10, in which the water then evaporates when the soleplate 1 is heated and is fed to the steam outlet openings 11 through the steam guide channels 36 and into the items to be ironed, which is arranged below the sliding sole 2 (not shown) penetrates.
  • the long steam guide channels 36 also ensure that the steam continues to heat up to the steam outlet openings 11.
  • the height h from the bottom 43 to the underside of the passages 37 is approximately 4/5 to 9/10 of the height H which results from the bottom 43 to the underside of the cover 9 (FIG. 2).
  • the steam iron according to the invention works as follows:
  • the ironing material smeared by the iron soleplate 1 is equally well moistened at all points by the constant steam flow, in particular also in the region which is smeared by the iron soleplate 1 during ironing below the middle region (center line 34).

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EP89120546A 1989-01-13 1989-11-07 Fer à repasser à vapeur électrique Expired - Lifetime EP0377803B1 (fr)

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US5532455A (en) * 1993-04-23 1996-07-02 Moulinex (Societe Anonyme) Sole for an electric steam iron with alternating vaporization and heating regions
FR2767542A1 (fr) * 1997-08-21 1999-02-26 Seb Sa Semelle de fer a repasser a vapeur comportant des trous de passage de la vapeur

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DE4422087A1 (de) * 1994-06-24 1996-01-11 Braun Ag Dampfaustritt und Dampfverteilung
EP0676498A3 (fr) * 1994-04-06 1996-04-17 Braun Ag Sortie et distribution de vapeur.

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US2425598A (en) * 1944-05-30 1947-08-12 Philco Corp Steam electric iron
DE2136050B2 (de) 1970-07-21 1976-01-15 Dampfbuegeleisen
FR2337780A1 (fr) * 1976-01-12 1977-08-05 Seb Sa Fer a repasser electrique a vapeur
DE3545753A1 (de) * 1985-12-21 1987-06-25 Braun Ag Elektrisches dampfbuegeleisen
EP0281987A1 (fr) * 1987-03-09 1988-09-14 Costantino Ronchi Semelle chauffante, en particulier pour fer à repasser à vapeur

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US4665637A (en) * 1985-07-26 1987-05-19 Braun Aktiengesellschaft Sole plate coating for a fabric pressing device

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US2425598A (en) * 1944-05-30 1947-08-12 Philco Corp Steam electric iron
DE2136050B2 (de) 1970-07-21 1976-01-15 Dampfbuegeleisen
FR2337780A1 (fr) * 1976-01-12 1977-08-05 Seb Sa Fer a repasser electrique a vapeur
DE3545753A1 (de) * 1985-12-21 1987-06-25 Braun Ag Elektrisches dampfbuegeleisen
EP0281987A1 (fr) * 1987-03-09 1988-09-14 Costantino Ronchi Semelle chauffante, en particulier pour fer à repasser à vapeur

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US5532455A (en) * 1993-04-23 1996-07-02 Moulinex (Societe Anonyme) Sole for an electric steam iron with alternating vaporization and heating regions
FR2767542A1 (fr) * 1997-08-21 1999-02-26 Seb Sa Semelle de fer a repasser a vapeur comportant des trous de passage de la vapeur

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DE3901024C2 (fr) 1990-10-25
ATE90981T1 (de) 1993-07-15

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