DE1585854A1 - Steam iron with a steam control needle running through the flap that closes the entrance to the water container - Google Patents

Description

PHN.991

"Steam iron with a through the entrance to the water tank closing flap running steam control

needle".

The invention relates to a steam iron in which the steam control needle that controls the water supply to the steam chamber runs through the flap that closes the inlet to the water tank under spring pressure.

It is known per se to use the steam chamber of an iron with a safety flap to provide a separate discharge.

The invention aims to have a simple design

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To create little space and material, and is characterized in that an iron with a Steam control needle of the type mentioned above, the needle at the same time forms the guide pin of a steam pressure safety flap. The steam control needle itself is therefore also used to operate the safety flap. The flaps can thus be aligned are arranged, and various further simplifications can be carried out, namely those of the loading springs the flaps, whereby the space, which is not too abundant with an iron, is used much better and assembly and disassembly are easy to carry out.

In the case of a steam iron with the flap for the supply to the water tank is pressed onto the seat by a spring housed in the water tank, the arrangement is particularly simple when the steam control needle forms the guide pin of the steam pressure safety flap, which is opposite to the aforementioned closing flap Direction opens.

It is advantageous for the embodiment to be so to choose that in the closed state the safety flap rests directly on the supply flap of the water tank and whose passage closes.

The invention is explained in more detail below using an exemplary embodiment shown in the drawing, various advantageous details can be clearly seen.

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The schematic drawing shows a longitudinal section through an essential for explaining the invention Part of an iron.

The sole of the iron is denoted by 1 and the steam chamber provided therein is denoted by 2. The latter stands through an opening 3 with the water tank 5 housed in the upper part in connection, which is through the supply channel 7, 8 can be filled; the latter is normally through the flap 9 under the pressure of a trough-shaped spring washer 10 closed under load on the helical spring 11. The spring 11 surrounds a flap guide pin 12, the at the same time forms the so-called steam control needle. Their end 13 acts on the passage of the opening 3, and In two parts (when filling the container 5), this opening can be made by the one attached to the guide pin 12 at the end 13 Flap 14 can be completely closed. For this purpose, the pin 12 can by means of the push button 15 over the spring 16 are pressed down in the channel part 8, so that the flap 9 is also pressed down against the action of the spring 11 is: at the same time the passage of the channel 7t 8 to the water tank 5 is released for filling. So far it has been customary to attach the flap 9 firmly to the steam control needle 12 for this purpose, so that the latter the Stem for the flap Q forms. In the present invention, however, the steam control needle 12 only forms a guide for this flap, which is carried along when the needle is pushed in by a flap 17 resting on the flap 9, which is fixed

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attached to the needle and secured by a ring 18 embedded in the steam control needle 12. The steam control needle 12 thus forms the handle for the flap 17, 18, namely for the steam pressure safety flap. This blocks a steam passage, which in this case is formed by the fact that the flap 9 and the spring plate 10 are guided along the steam control needle 12 with a margin 19, for example by having these parts with a square hole around the round steam control needle. The steam control needle 12 is also surrounded by a spring 20 between a stationary housing part 21, on which the spring 11 rests, and the spring plate on the steam control needle, which plate is formed here by the aforementioned flap lh . The spring 20 thus pulls the head 18 onto the steam passage 19 left free along the flap 9.

In the position shown in the figure, water can flow from the container 5 through the opening 3 into the steam chamber 2 reach where it begins to boil and then partially returned through the pipe 22 together with steam into the container 5 will. Since there is always a large amount of water on the container in the steam chamber 2, the boil gradually entire water stock, whereupon steam emerges through the opening 23 on the underside of the sole. If the line 23 locked, the safety flap 17 is effective as soon the steam pressure (through the passage 19) at the bottom of this flap is so great that the pressure of the springs 20 and 16 is overcome will.

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Claims (4)

PHN.991 PATENT CLAIMS s 1 ·. Steam iron with which the supply of The steam control needle that controls the water to the steam chamber runs through the flap which, under spring pressure, opens the entrance to the water tank closes, characterized in that the steam control needle at the same time the guide pin of a steam pressure safety flap forms. 2. Steam iron according to claim 1, wherein the Closure flap for the supply to the water tank by a spring housed in the water tank on its seat is pressed, characterized in that the steam control needle is the guide pin of the steam pressure safety flap forms which opens in the opposite direction with respect to the aforementioned shutter. 3. Steam iron according to claim 2, characterized in that the safety flap in the closed state rests directly on the supply flap of the water container and closes its passage. 4. Steam iron according to claim 3 »characterized in that that the steam control needle is passed through the feed flap of the water tank with clearance and the Safety flap with a fixed connection to the guide pin in the rest position closes the free space under spring pressure . 5 · Steam iron according to one of the preceding Claims, characterized in that the safety flap by a helical spring surrounding the steam control needle that is charged between one near the end at the 00 9 * 43/0398, Steam control needle attached, in the closed position of the shutter of the water tank opened closure flap of the steam chamber and one connected to the housing Spring plate is located, which on the opposite side a steam control needle surrounding, the first The so-called flap is actuated by pressing the helical spring. 009843/0398