EP0159134B1 - Surface stripping aid - Google Patents
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- EP0159134B1 EP0159134B1 EP19850301667 EP85301667A EP0159134B1 EP 0159134 B1 EP0159134 B1 EP 0159134B1 EP 19850301667 EP19850301667 EP 19850301667 EP 85301667 A EP85301667 A EP 85301667A EP 0159134 B1 EP0159134 B1 EP 0159134B1
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F22—STEAM GENERATION
- F22B—METHODS OF STEAM GENERATION; STEAM BOILERS
- F22B1/00—Methods of steam generation characterised by form of heating method
- F22B1/28—Methods of steam generation characterised by form of heating method in boilers heated electrically
- F22B1/288—Instantaneous electrical steam generators built-up from heat-exchange elements arranged within a confined chamber having heat-retaining walls
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
- B44C—PRODUCING DECORATIVE EFFECTS; MOSAICS; TARSIA WORK; PAPERHANGING
- B44C7/00—Paperhanging
- B44C7/02—Machines, apparatus, tools or accessories therefor
- B44C7/027—Machines, apparatus, tools or accessories for removing wall paper
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- the present invention relates to a surface stripping aid suitable for use in stripping wallpaper and/or other coverings from surfaces.
- the present invention provides a surface stripping aid comprising a body having a sole plate and a handgrip means, said body having a heated water passage means with an inlet means provided with connection means for connection to a water supply so as to supply water to said passage means in use of the aid with said sole plate disposed in a substantially vertical position and an outlet means extending through and distributed substantially across said sole plate, said heated water passage means being formed and arranged so that when, in use of the aid, water enters said passage means it is substantially vapourised and expelled through the sole plate via said outlet means therein into contact with a surface to be stripped against which said sole plate is held.
- steam can be generated more or less directly at the point of use and more or less immediately as required. This enables a relatively lightweight and economic form of construction to be employed which is easy to handle in practice.
- Fig. 1 shows a person 1 using a stripping aid 2 of the invention in one hand and a scraper 3 in the other to remove wallpaper 4 from a wall surface 5.
- the relatively light-weight stripping aid 2 is connected to an electrical mains supply 6 by a medium duty electrical cable 7 which together with a relatively light and small bore water hose 8 is conveniently trailed over the user's shoulder.
- the water hose 8 is connected to a pressurised e.g. hand pumped water container 9 or could instead be connected to the domestic water supply.
- the stripping aid 2 comprises a body 10 conveniently of lightweight plastic, having a metal (e.g. steel or aluminium) sole plate 11 secured thereto with the aid of mounting screws 12.
- a metal e.g. steel or aluminium
- an electrically insulated 15A heating element 15 suitably supported 16 in thermal contact with said wall 13.
- the wall 13 At its centre the wall 13 is provided with a rearwardly extending conduit means 17 which is led out through a handgrip portion 18 of the body 10 to a connector 19 whereat is connected the water supply hose 8. Downstream of said connector is provided first a non-return valve 20 and then a normally-closed automatic valve 21 provided with an operating linkage 22 which extends to alongside one edge 23 of the sole plate 11 so as to stand slightly proud thereof and so that when the sole plate 11 is held against the surface 5 the linkage 22 is displaced to automatically open the automatic valve 21.
- the heating element 15 is provided with an automatic thermal cut-out switch 24 and a manually operable control switch 25.
- the sole plate 23 is provided with a plurality of small bore outlets 26 distributed across its bottom face 27 and extending from the chamber 14 behind it and from a terminal portion of the water passage means which extend from the connector 19 and through said chamber 14.
- the aid liquid water is fed into the chamber 14 when the sole plate 23 is placed against the wall surface 5 and is substantially immediately vapourised filling the chamber with steam which is forced out through the outlets 26 into the wall paper 4 which is rapidly softened and can then be readily scraped off with the aid of a suitable scraper 3 shown in more detail in Fig. 5.
- the scraper is provided with a spray nozzle 27a connected by a suitable hose 28 to a pressurised water supply (not shown) and disposed so as to direct a water spray 29 between the blades 30 at each end of the scraper.
- the flash-steam generator of Figs. 3 and 4 comprises a generally cylindrical body 31 having at one end 32 an axial bore 33 provided with a non-return valve 34, said bore extending radially outwardly at an axially intermediate part 35 of the body 31.
- the body 31 has an external screwthread 36 which screwthreadedly engages an internally threaded portion at one end of a tubular member 38 on which is supported an annular electrical heating element 39.
- the other end portion 40 has a cylindrical inner wall surface 41 having a diameter corresponding to the outside diameter of the screwthread 36 so as to define a narrow helical water passage means 37 into which the weater is fed from the bore 33 and then vapourised and forced out of under pressure.
- An outer housing 42 provides electrical and thermal insulation as required.
- Fig. 6 shows a second stripping aid of the invention generally similar to the first, like parts being identified by like reference numerals.
- an internal water supply in the form of a reservoir 43 mounted at the forward end 44 of the body 10 so that in the operating position of the aid with the sole plate 11 substantially vertical the reservoir 43 is substantially above the inlet means 17 so that water is fed via the latter into the heated passage means 13 under the influence of gravity.
- the inlet means 17 is provided with a manually operable valve 45 operating means in the form of a trigger mechanism 46 (all these parts being indicated schematically).
- This second passage may be used as a return passage where a recirculating water supply system is used (see below) or as an additional inlet means which by means of manual operation of the controller 48 of an associated valve 49 can be used to increase the steam output of the aid by increasing water supply to the heated passage means 13 for example when it is required to strip heavier wallpapers.
- a variable flow rate form of the manually operable valve 45 to vary the steam output rate.
- the steam output rate of the aid of the invention may be varied within relatively wide rates and in general will be selected to be similar to that of conventional stripping aids. Conveniently an output rate corresponding to a water consump- . tion rate of some 4 to 40 mls. per minute is used though it will be appreciated that the aid of the present invention will tend to produce a higher useful steam output rate i.e. at the sole plate than conventional aids due to the greater efficiency of the aid of the present invention.
- the second aid uses a modified form of the automatic valve means 21 and operating member 22 wherein the later is formed integrally with a frusto-conical valve member 50 and is in the form of a cylindrical member slidably mounted in a bore 51 in the sole plate 11.
- the valve member 50 sealingly engages with its frusto-conical surface 52 the outlet 53 of the inlet means 17 and is held thereagainst by a resilient biasing means in the form of a helical spring 54.
- Fig. 8 The third embodiment of Fig. 8 is again generally similar to the previous ones and accordingly for purposes of clarity details of the water supply arrangements have been omitted.
- a fluid fuel burner 55 mounted towards the rear end 56 of the body 10 at the base of a combustion chamber 57 extending across and immediately the heated water passage 13 above the sole plate 11.
- An air inlet 58 is provided adjacent the burner and an exhaust outlet 59 at the forward end 44 of the body 10.
- Suitable liquid or gaseous fuel is supplied to the burner from an internal reservoir (not shown) or from an external one via a fuel pipe 60.
- a suitable ignition means with a remote operating switch 61 is also desirably provided.
- an integral scraper 62 is also provided at the forward end 44 of the body 10 to break the surface of impermeable material to be stripped e.g. gloss painted wallpaper and/or to loosen material which has already been treated to a greater or lesser extent with the aid e.g. during a return stroke of the aid.
- Fig. 9 shows an external water supply 9 with a manual pump 63 for pressurizing the vessel 64 of said supply 9 to expel water via a first valved 65 branch 66 of the water supply hose 8 leading to the main body 10 of the aid.
- a mechanical, e.g. electrically propelled, circulating pump 67 is connected to a second branch, unused water being recycled to the vessel 64 via the return pipe 47.
- the valve 65 in the first branch is closed.
- a pressurized gas container 68 with suitable valve means 69 or motorized air pump 74 and filter 75.
- a pressure gauge 70 and/or pressure relief valve 71 are also provided for safety reasons and operating convenience.
- a filling cap 72 is provided as well as filters 73 to protect the circulating pump 67 and first branch 66 against ingress of foreign bodies.
- the stripping end of the invention can be made relatively economically and compactly so that it can be easily used even by DIY practitioners for extended periods without fatigue.
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Description
- The present invention relates to a surface stripping aid suitable for use in stripping wallpaper and/or other coverings from surfaces.
- Conventional steam wallpaper strippers are relatively large and cumbersome employing remote steam generators and then conveying the remotely generated steam to a stripping head via a suitable conduit which normally involves significant heat loss along its length and possible discomfort or injury through coming into contact therewith, or even if it is insulated becomes relatively awkward and cumbersome.
- It is an object of the present invention to avoid or minimise one or more of the above disadvantages.
- The present invention provides a surface stripping aid comprising a body having a sole plate and a handgrip means, said body having a heated water passage means with an inlet means provided with connection means for connection to a water supply so as to supply water to said passage means in use of the aid with said sole plate disposed in a substantially vertical position and an outlet means extending through and distributed substantially across said sole plate, said heated water passage means being formed and arranged so that when, in use of the aid, water enters said passage means it is substantially vapourised and expelled through the sole plate via said outlet means therein into contact with a surface to be stripped against which said sole plate is held.
- With a stripping aid of the present invention steam can be generated more or less directly at the point of use and more or less immediately as required. This enables a relatively lightweight and economic form of construction to be employed which is easy to handle in practice.
- Further preferred features and advantages of the invention will appear from the following detailed description given by way of example of a preferred embodiment illustrated with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
- Fig. 1 is a schematic view of a wallpaper stripping system including an aid of the invention in use;
- Fig. 2 is an exploded sectional elevation of the head of the stripping aid of Fig. 1;
- Fig. 3 is a detail longitudinal section of a flash steam generator suitable for use in the aid of Fig. 2;
- Fig. 4 is a transverse section through the steam generator of Fig. 3;
- Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a scraper suitable for use in conjunction with the aid of Fig. 2 as shown on Fig. 1;
- Fig. 6 is a longitudinal vertical section of a second stripping aid of the invention;
- Fig. 7 is a detail view of the safety valve of the aid of Fig. 6;
- Fig. 8 is a view corresponding to Fig. 6 of a third aid of the invention; and
- Fig. 9 is a schematic side view of an external water supply suitable for use with an aid of the invention.
- In the drawings of the various embodiments like parts are identified by like reference numerals.
- Fig. 1 shows a person 1 using a
stripping aid 2 of the invention in one hand and ascraper 3 in the other to removewallpaper 4 from awall surface 5. The relatively light-weight stripping aid 2 is connected to an electrical mains supply 6 by a medium dutyelectrical cable 7 which together with a relatively light and smallbore water hose 8 is conveniently trailed over the user's shoulder. Thewater hose 8 is connected to a pressurised e.g. hand pumped water container 9 or could instead be connected to the domestic water supply. - As may be seen in Fig. 2 the
stripping aid 2 comprises a body 10 conveniently of lightweight plastic, having a metal (e.g. steel or aluminium)sole plate 11 secured thereto with the aid ofmounting screws 12. - At the
rear side 13 of thesole plate 11 is provided a closely spacedwall 13 defining ashallow chamber 14 which forms part of a water passage means. Behind thewall 13 is provided an electrically insulated15A heating element 15 suitably supported 16 in thermal contact with saidwall 13. - At its centre the
wall 13 is provided with a rearwardly extending conduit means 17 which is led out through ahandgrip portion 18 of the body 10 to aconnector 19 whereat is connected thewater supply hose 8. Downstream of said connector is provided first anon-return valve 20 and then a normally-closedautomatic valve 21 provided with anoperating linkage 22 which extends to alongside oneedge 23 of thesole plate 11 so as to stand slightly proud thereof and so that when thesole plate 11 is held against thesurface 5 thelinkage 22 is displaced to automatically open theautomatic valve 21. - The
heating element 15 is provided with an automatic thermal cut-out switch 24 and a manuallyoperable control switch 25. - The
sole plate 23 is provided with a plurality ofsmall bore outlets 26 distributed across itsbottom face 27 and extending from thechamber 14 behind it and from a terminal portion of the water passage means which extend from theconnector 19 and through saidchamber 14. - In use of the aid liquid water is fed into the
chamber 14 when thesole plate 23 is placed against thewall surface 5 and is substantially immediately vapourised filling the chamber with steam which is forced out through theoutlets 26 into thewall paper 4 which is rapidly softened and can then be readily scraped off with the aid of asuitable scraper 3 shown in more detail in Fig. 5. Conveniently the scraper is provided with aspray nozzle 27a connected by asuitable hose 28 to a pressurised water supply (not shown) and disposed so as to direct awater spray 29 between theblades 30 at each end of the scraper. - Various modifications may be made to the above devices without departing from the scope of the present invention. Thus for example in place of generally plate-form heating arrangement Fig. 2 there could instead be used a compact flash-steam generator as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. In this case it would be practicable to use for example a plastic sole plate in place of a metal one.
- The flash-steam generator of Figs. 3 and 4 comprises a generally
cylindrical body 31 having at oneend 32 anaxial bore 33 provided with anon-return valve 34, said bore extending radially outwardly at an axiallyintermediate part 35 of thebody 31. Thebody 31 has anexternal screwthread 36 which screwthreadedly engages an internally threaded portion at one end of atubular member 38 on which is supported an annularelectrical heating element 39. Theother end portion 40 has a cylindrical inner wall surface 41 having a diameter corresponding to the outside diameter of thescrewthread 36 so as to define a narrow helical water passage means 37 into which the weater is fed from thebore 33 and then vapourised and forced out of under pressure. Anouter housing 42 provides electrical and thermal insulation as required. - Fig. 6 shows a second stripping aid of the invention generally similar to the first, like parts being identified by like reference numerals. In this case although there is also provided an internal water supply in the form of a reservoir 43 mounted at the
forward end 44 of the body 10 so that in the operating position of the aid with thesole plate 11 substantially vertical the reservoir 43 is substantially above the inlet means 17 so that water is fed via the latter into the heated passage means 13 under the influence of gravity. In addition the inlet means 17 is provided with a manually operable valve 45 operating means in the form of a trigger mechanism 46 (all these parts being indicated schematically). - There is also provided a second passage parallel to the main inlet means
passage 17. This second passage may be used as a return passage where a recirculating water supply system is used (see below) or as an additional inlet means which by means of manual operation of the controller 48 of an associatedvalve 49 can be used to increase the steam output of the aid by increasing water supply to the heated passage means 13 for example when it is required to strip heavier wallpapers. Alternatively or in addition there can be used a variable flow rate form of the manually operable valve 45 to vary the steam output rate. - The steam output rate of the aid of the invention may be varied within relatively wide rates and in general will be selected to be similar to that of conventional stripping aids. Conveniently an output rate corresponding to a water consump- . tion rate of some 4 to 40 mls. per minute is used though it will be appreciated that the aid of the present invention will tend to produce a higher useful steam output rate i.e. at the sole plate than conventional aids due to the greater efficiency of the aid of the present invention.
- As shown in Fig. 7 the second aid uses a modified form of the automatic valve means 21 and
operating member 22 wherein the later is formed integrally with a frusto-conical valve member 50 and is in the form of a cylindrical member slidably mounted in a bore 51 in thesole plate 11. Thevalve member 50 sealingly engages with its frusto-conical surface 52 the outlet 53 of the inlet means 17 and is held thereagainst by a resilient biasing means in the form of ahelical spring 54. When thesole plate 11 is placed against awall surface 5 theoperating member 22 is pushed back against the force of thespring 54 moving thevalve member 21 away from saidoutlet 50 to allow water to pass through anannular passage 55 defined therebetween. - The third embodiment of Fig. 8 is again generally similar to the previous ones and accordingly for purposes of clarity details of the water supply arrangements have been omitted. In this embodiment instead of an electrical heating means there is used a
fluid fuel burner 55 mounted towards therear end 56 of the body 10 at the base of a combustion chamber 57 extending across and immediately theheated water passage 13 above thesole plate 11. Anair inlet 58 is provided adjacent the burner and anexhaust outlet 59 at theforward end 44 of the body 10. Suitable liquid or gaseous fuel is supplied to the burner from an internal reservoir (not shown) or from an external one via a fuel pipe 60. A suitable ignition means with aremote operating switch 61 is also desirably provided. Conveniently anintegral scraper 62 is also provided at theforward end 44 of the body 10 to break the surface of impermeable material to be stripped e.g. gloss painted wallpaper and/or to loosen material which has already been treated to a greater or lesser extent with the aid e.g. during a return stroke of the aid. - Fig. 9 shows an external water supply 9 with a
manual pump 63 for pressurizing thevessel 64 of said supply 9 to expel water via a first valved 65branch 66 of thewater supply hose 8 leading to the main body 10 of the aid. As an alternative a mechanical, e.g. electrically propelled, circulatingpump 67 is connected to a second branch, unused water being recycled to thevessel 64 via thereturn pipe 47. When the mechanical pump is operating thevalve 65 in the first branch is closed. Instead of the manual pump there could be used a pressurizedgas container 68 with suitable valve means 69 or motorizedair pump 74 andfilter 75. Desirably apressure gauge 70 and/or pressure relief valve 71 are also provided for safety reasons and operating convenience. Also a fillingcap 72 is provided as well asfilters 73 to protect the circulatingpump 67 andfirst branch 66 against ingress of foreign bodies. - It will be appreciated from the above that the stripping end of the invention can be made relatively economically and compactly so that it can be easily used even by DIY practitioners for extended periods without fatigue.
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GB8627734D0 (en) * | 1986-11-20 | 1986-12-17 | Black & Decker Inc | Hand-held steam generating device |
GB8814206D0 (en) * | 1988-06-15 | 1988-07-20 | Black & Decker Inc | Improvements in/relating to steam generators |
GB2248207A (en) * | 1990-09-14 | 1992-04-01 | Eugene Camallas Divilly | Device for facilitating removal of wallpaper, paint or the like |
FR2672250B1 (en) * | 1991-02-06 | 1995-03-10 | Cogia | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STRIPPING A COVERED SURFACE. |
GB9119693D0 (en) * | 1991-09-14 | 1991-10-30 | Black & Decker Inc | Steam generator |
DE20118206U1 (en) * | 2001-11-10 | 2002-05-23 | Klaus Adelheid | Double-walled cavity scraper |
DE10351879B3 (en) * | 2003-10-29 | 2005-04-21 | Alfred Kärcher Gmbh & Co. Kg | Steam cleaning device for surfaces including walls of building has electrically-driven pump and manually-driven auxiliary pump moving water from reservoir to steam generator connected to nozzle |
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