DE7921623U1 - Steam iron - Google Patents

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EBHZ-79A2 07/27/1979

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Licentia Pat ent-Verwaltungs-GmbH Frankfurt / Main

Steam iron

The innovation relates to a steam iron with an evaporator chamber arranged in the soleplate, which is separated from the soleplate is tightly closed by a removable insert.

From SE-AS 1 206 844 a steam iron is known, the evaporator chamber of which is inserted from the sole Mat is formed. The plate is sealed against the sand of the insertion opening in the sole and can after loosening a screw can be lifted out of the insertion opening using a tool via a Aashebeschra.ge. In this steam iron, the plate inserted into the sole forms practically the entire bottom of the evaporation chamber. Since the the plate used is sealed off from the heated iron soleplate by a sealing element made of silicone material, the heat transfer from the soleplate to the plate is unsatisfactory and thus the steam generation by the relative cool bottom plate impaired. Also the outwardly inclined formation of the plate and soitite evaporator chamber floor, through which every drop of water to the heated hand

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The object of the innovation is to improve a steam iron of the type mentioned at the outset, both with regard to the generation of steam and the possibility of cleaning the evaporation chamber.

The solution to this problem according to the innovation can be found in the characterizing part of claim 1.

Appropriate refinements are given in the subclaims.

Due to the special design of the insert opposite the evaporation chamber, the dripping water is quickly directed to the heated area of the soleplate. Furthermore, the insert part can be easily removed from the soleplate and thus an access for removing Create limescale deposits from the evaporator chamber.

An embodiment of the innovation is shown in the drawing and is described in more detail below with reference to this.

Show it:

Fig. 1 shows an iron soleplate for a steam iron from seen from below,

Fig. 2 shows the soleplate with the soleplate open from above shown evaporator chamber and

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Fig. 3 is a partial section from the soleplate of the iron

Area of the evaporator chamber accessible from the outside.

You iron soleplate 1 shown in Fig. 1 for an electric steam iron has on its sole surface 2 a Recess 3, which is circular in the illustrated embodiment. In this recess is a disc-shaped metallic insert 4 inserted removably »which closes off an evaporator chamber 5 in the soleplate from the soleplate surface 2. The insert part 4 is conical on the inside V, which extends into the evaporator chamber 5. The insert part 4 has a circumferential groove 6 in which a silicone sealing ring body 7 is embedded. The sealing ring body 7 is with a circumferential bead 8 is provided which, after inserting the insert 4 into the recess 3, snaps behind the recess edge 3 '. The insert 4 is thus fastened in a self-retaining manner in the soleplate 1 without additional aids. Furthermore, the sealing ring body 7 arranged in this way prevents the insert part from "liming up" in the soleplate of the iron 1. To clean the evaporation chamber from the limescale deposits 9 that have formed there over time, the insert part is removed using a screwdriver 10, several lifting lugs 11, 11 ', 11 ″ are provided for its engagement, lifted out of the recess 3. Then the The evaporator chamber 5 is freed of limescale deposits, especially in the area of the water drip opening 12.

It is advantageous to have the conical inside 4 'of the insert part 4 by a special surface design or to form a lime-repellent coating.

Claims (3)

■ ■■ * ·. J I ■ -, ί: ι ι »■ ■" EBHZ-79 / 4-2 07/27/1979 Ku / hn Schut ζ claims 1. Steam iron with arranged in the soleplate Evaporation chamber, which is tightly closed from the sole by a removable insert, characterized. the insert (4) on the in the evaporator chamber (5) protruding inside (4 · ') is conical and that the insert part (4) has a sealing ring body (7) with a bead (8) and the bead (8) after inserting the insert part (4) into the recess (3) in the soleplate (1) of the recess edge (3 ') is arranged reaching behind. 2. Steam iron according to claim 1, characterized in that that the sealing ring body (7) is embedded in a circumferential groove (6) on the insert part (4). 3. Steam iron according to claim 1, characterized in that the insert part (4) is provided with one or more lifting lugs (11, 11 ·, 11 ^H ).